BEVERLY JACOBS
Assistant Professor
Windsor Law welcomes Assistant Professor Beverly Jacobs to the Faculty this fall. She is a lawyer and specialist in issues relating to the rights of Indigenous peoples, specifically, the rights of Indigenous women and girls.
Beverly is completing her PhD at the University of Calgary. Her work focuses on preserving and promoting Indigenous legal traditions, wholistic health of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous research methodologies.
She is the former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada and is an Aboriginal Advisory Member with Save the Children Canada. Beverly was one of fifty women recognized by Canadian peace organizations for her work to further a culture of peace in Canada. In 2008, she received the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of Aboriginal women’s equality.
She is the recipient of the Circle of Honour Esquao Award from the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women in Edmonton, Alberta. She received a Franco- German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law from the Governments of France and Germany for her human rights fight for the issues relating to Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
SHANTHI ELIZABETH SENTHE
Assistant Professor
Shanthi Elizabeth Senthe will be joining Windsor Law as an Assistant Professor this fall. Shanthi brings a wealth of knowledge to her classroom, particularly to our Dual JD students, as she has practiced law on both sides of the border. Prior to joining Windsor Law, Shanthi was an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia for three years. She taught Business Associations, Secured Transactions, Corporate Governance and Remedies. Shanthi is admitted to practice law in Ontario, Florida, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Her research interests include corporate, commercial, banking and finance law.
Shanthi is completing her PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, focusing on banking and finance regulation and governance. She completed a merit-based judicial externship at the Florida Supreme Court, and a judicial clerkship at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Her professional experiences include banking and corporate-commercial litigation.
Shanthi has received multiple research awards, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship. She taught as a guest lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School and was a Visiting Scholar at Duke University School of Law in 2013.
JILLIAN ROGIN
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Jillian Rogin is a Windsor Law alumna, class of 2008 and brings a breadth of knowledge and experience to her students. She earned her LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies from York University and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Philosophy and Native Studies from Trent University. Her research interests are in the areas of racial profiling, Indigenous people and the criminal system, feminist and anti-oppression studies and criminal law.
Jillian completed her articles as a judicial law clerk at the Superior Court of Justice in 2009 and spent five years with Legal Aid Ontario in Toronto as a duty counsel, criminal defence lawyer and staff lawyer. Since 2014, she has worked as Review Counsel at Windsor Law’s downtown Community Legal Aid clinic, a joint initiative between Windsor Law and Legal Aid Ontario that provides legal services for low-income residents of Windsor-Essex county and full-time University of Windsor undergraduate students.
She is a contributing author to McWilliams Canadian Criminal Evidence and is passionately committed to social justice lawyering and advocacy work.