Law professor Anneke Smit will receive an award from the Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership for her work to support refugees.
Law professor Anneke Smit will receive an award from the Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership for her work to support refugees.
Government-assisted refugees Noura and Bilal Tanbari with their Windsor schoolmate Alies Waters.
A campus effort to sponsor a refugee family from Syria for resettlement in Canada has reached its initial fundraising target and submitted the sponsorship application. Now the real work begins, report organizers.
“With so much help from across the university community, we have raised more than the minimum required to bring a family here,” says professor Anneke Smit, part of the Group of Five sponsors based in Windsor Law. “This has been a campus-wide effort. Every faculty contributed, as well as individuals and groups.”
A mini-conference Friday, April 1, at Windsor Law will consider issues of refugee movements and labour migration.
A new initiative by Windsor Law and the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub will be offering support and information to members of the Windsor community wishing to privately sponsor Syrian refugees.
The Windsor chapter of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program (SSP), will bring together pro bono lawyers, law students, and sponsorship experts for a public information session on Thursday, January 21, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in room 2100, Faculty of Law building.
A weak legal framework coupled with increasing use of expropriation by public authorities is eroding private property rights in Canada, says Anneke Smit.
The law professor will use the example of the Windsor-Essex Parkway to illustrate her point in a free public lecture, entitled “Property expropriation for mega-projects in Canada,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 13.
A UWindsor law professor believes it’s time to consider compensating people for the emotional loss they suffer when forced to give up their homes to make way for public infrastructure projects like the Windsor-Essex Parkway.
