About CARC

The Canadian-American Research Centre for Law and Policy (“CARC”) is dedicated to fostering scholarship within the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor on legal and policy issues relating to Canada and the United States in a North American, and increasingly global, context. It also seeks to disseminate research and promote discussion and debate on important related issues.

CARC has been affiliated with the Faculty of Law since 1992 and is an important vehicle for enhancing one of the Faculty’s two themes, Canada-U.S. legal issues. CARC has supported research leading to books, articles and other publications and film. It has hosted major conferences on intellectual property and international trade, on NAFTA and legal harmonization, on transboundary air quality, and on comparative corporate and commercial law. Each year, CARC sponsors guest speakers and panel discussions on a wide range of international and cross-border topics.

Faculty members’ research interests include international trade, intellectual property, transboundary environmental protection, comparative corporate governance and securities regulation, immigration and border security, comparative and transnational law and issues relating to globalization.

CARC is administered by a committee of faculty. Participants in 2007/2008 are: