Graduate Students

By Sara Meikle

For students at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, mooting and negotiation competitions are more than academic exercises — they are integral to how students grow into confident, capable legal professionals.

Mooting, a simulated court hearing usually focused on appeals, challenges students to think critically, advocate persuasively and navigate complex legal and ethical issues under pressure.

By Sara Meikle

Vivian Ntiri was never defined by a single path.

She was a lawyer, a mentor, a devoted friend, family member, community builder and a woman whose curiosity and compassion shaped every interaction.

Now, through the Vivian Ntiri Memorial Scholarship, her community is ensuring that her legacy continues to open doors for future generations of students at Windsor Law.

By Sara Meikle

When Corina Farai Makore began her PhD at the University of Windsor, she wasn’t just pursuing a long-held personal goal, she was equipping herself to change a system.

As healthcare manager at the South West Detention Centre in Windsor, Makore leads 50 nurses and oversees a 10-bed infirmary providing 24/7 care for incarcerated patients.

At the same time, she is a scholar using her doctoral research to guide policy reform and strengthen correctional nursing in Ontario.

By Sara Meikle

Jamie Holmes sees the law as more than a career choice.

For her, it’s a way to make a real difference.

Her commitment to advance access to justice for Indigenous communities has earned her the inaugural Sidney B. Linden Student Award.

By Kate Hargreaves 

Throughout their high school years, students look for academic and social support from teachers, peers and others in the school community. 

For Black and Afro-descendant students in Francophone high schools — especially recent immigrants to Canada — this support can be all the more critical as they try to navigate a new and unfamiliar social and linguistic environment. 

By Sara Meikle

For first-year law students at the University of Windsor, learning about access to justice often begins in the classroom.

But on March 20, that learning extended beyond campus, onto the lands of Aamjiwnaang First Nation.

Supported by UWindsor’s Article U: Diversity, Indigeneity, and Anti-Racism Professional Development Fund and Windsor Law, students in the Access to Justice course travelled to the community near Sarnia for a day of land-based, experiential learning centred on environmental and treaty rights.

By Sara Meikle

When newborn babies were taken from their parents under Ontario’s controversial Birth Alerts policy, the removals left lasting trauma for families and highlighted systemic discrimination.

The Windsor Law Class Action Clinic has been granted intervener status before the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a landmark class action that seeks compensation for families harmed as a result of that policy.

By Victor Romao

Fill out a form and have your cheek swabbed.  It’s only eight minutes of your time that could lead to saving a life.  Daphne’s life.

The Windsor-area grandmother has been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, and doctors say a stem cell transplant is her only potential cure.  

More than 45 million potential donors on a worldwide stem cell registry have already been searched, but no suitable match has been found.

By Kate Hargreaves 

How does the timing of an injury affect the regeneration of that muscle tissue? 

That’s what new research out of the Faculty of Human Kinetics sought to explore. 

By Victor Romao

The Odette Commerce Society (OCS) is launching a five-day series of student-led efforts next week to raise awareness and proceeds for individuals experiencing homelessness in Windsor and Essex County.