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The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression by Windsor Law's Distinguished University Professor Richard Moon has been shortlisted been for the Walter Owen Book Prize

Cover for the book The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression

The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression by Windsor Law's Distinguished University Professor Richard Moon has been shortlisted been for the Walter Owen Book Prize! 

The Walter Owen Book Prize is awarded annually by The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. The Prize serves to recognize and reward excellent legal research and writing from among books, published in Canada, which comprise outstanding new contributions to the quality of Canadian legal literature.

Learn more about the book here.

Scholarship by Adjunct Professor Brian Manarin was cited by the Ontario Court of Appeal in R v Hason, 2024 ONCA 369 at para 114. The court referenced Dr. Manarin's article "Watching Pinocchio's Nose: Revisiting Previous Incredibility Findings

May 7, 2024: Scholarship by Adjunct Professor Brian Manarin was cited by the Ontario Court of Appeal in R v Hason, 2024 ONCA 369 at para 114. The court referenced Dr. Manarin's article "Watching Pinocchio's Nose: Revisiting Previous Incredibility Findings When Considering Expert Testimony" (2023) 71 Crim. L. Q. 97. 

Windsor Law remembers inaugural Law Librarian

The inaugural Law Librarian at the University of Windsor's Faculty of Law, Professor Roger F. Jacobs, sadly passed away on April 17, 2024, at the age of 87. 

Professor Jacobs assumed this pioneering role in 1968 and concluded his tenure at the end of the Winter Term in 1973. He then embarked on his next venture as the founding Law Librarian at the University of Southern Illinois, where he served from 1973 to 1977. In 1978, he assumed the position of librarian at the United States Supreme Court. 

Holistic approach underpins law school’s diversity efforts

featured in the Globe and Mail

It’s not by chance that the Law faculty at the University of Windsor in Ontario is one of the most diverse law schools in Canada. A conscious effort over several years has aimed to make the faculty more representative of Canada’s evolving demographic profile.