Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice  

Pascale Chapdelaine

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Saleh Al-Sharieh

The Copyright Act includes a set of copyright infringement exceptions that permit the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in order to serve public interest objectives. The Supreme Court of Canada liberally interpreted these exceptions as “users’ rights”... see more

Bob Tarantino

This article proposes the “rules mutable game” as a metaphor for understanding the operation of copyright reform. Using the game of Calvinball (created by artist Bill Watterson in his long-running comic strip Calvin & Hobbes) as an illustrative device, an... see more

Amy Lai

This paper argues that the right to expressing oneself through parodies should constitute part of the core freedom of expression of a normative copyright regime. By drawing upon natural law legal theories, the paper proposes a legal definition of parody t... see more

Dana Phillips

This article examines the role of social science in feminist intervener advocacy, focusing on the 2015 case ofIshaq v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration). InIshaq, a Muslim woman challenged a Canadian government policy requiring her to remove... see more

Hélène Piquet

The role of China’s barefoot lawyers, or paralegals, working in rural areas, is scarcely addressed in studies of China’s legal reforms, either in China or in the West. This study seeks to identify their contribution to access to civil justice in China. A ... see more

Lisa Trabucco

Law societies in Canada have long been granted the privilege of self-regulation by the state – a privilege that comes with a statutory duty to govern in the public interest. There exists an access to justice crisis in this country. More must be done to ad... see more

Gerard J. Kennedy

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Lori Anne Heckbert

Despite evidence that both gender and ethnically diverse leadership is good for businesses’ bottom line, just one in five senior North American business leaders is female, one in thirty a woman of colour. Little literature exists applying behavioural econ... see more

Terry Skolnik

This article argues that our current understanding of the relationship between access to housing and liberty (or freedom) is limited. It contends that judicial decisions and existing legal theory are predominantly concerned with the connection between hou... see more

Gerrard J Kennedy

This article analyzes the first three years of the operation of Rule 2.1 of Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure (the “Rule”), which allows a court to very summarily dismiss litigation that is “on its face” frivolous, vexatious, and/or abusive. The author e... see more

Yasir Naqvi

The Hon. Yasir Naqvi, Attorney General of Ontario, delivered the George M. Duck Lecture at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law on February 28, 2018.