Law, Disability & Social Change

Transcript for the past webinar, “Localization of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” hosted on November 1st 2023, by The Centre for Disability Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies at Mona, in collaboration with the Law, Disability and Social Change Project of the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law.

How can we achieve greater social inclusion for people with disabilities? This question lies at the heart of a regulatory initiative that has been developing steadily in Canada since the mid-2000s. The question of inclusion has become even more acute during the COVID-19 crisis. Accessibility standards are the newest generation of law established to combat disability discrimination. Accessibility standards are

The Centre for Disability Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies at Mona, in collaboration with the Law, Disability and Social Change Project of the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, present an important discussion on localizing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Speakers: Dr. Laverne Jacobs, Professor and Founding

Victoria Cino graduated from the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law in 2016. She completed her articles with the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario, then moved into private practice with a small family law firm in Windsor. Before returning to the University of Windsor as a Staff Lawyer and the Executive Research Coordinator for the Law, Disability &

The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2022, Issue 2). This issue of our digest covers a selection of decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, and the North West Territories that were rendered during the month of July 2022. It also includes a selection of

Dear LDSC Community, Since May, 2022, we have had the pleasure of working with Valeria Kuri (Windsor Law JD/MSW ’21). Valeria worked with us this summer as the Law, Disability & Social Change Project’s Executive Research Coordinator. She rejoined the Project in this new capacity after having worked as a Research Assistant for four years between 2017 – 2021 while