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ACCESS FALL 2020 RODZIK FAMILY MAKES GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION TO TWL CAMPAIGN INSIDEFeature article on page 3 A MESSAGE FROM DEAN CHRISTOPHER WATERS A few months ago, we featured alumni who were for the future. By the time you read this we will have moved out of responding to the pandemic in remarkable and the Ron W. Ianni Building and into temporary quarters on campus, inspiring ways. These included a former nurse who and we will be preparing for a January 2021 start to construction. We put her law practice on hold to assist a remote have reached $5.1 million towards our fundraising goal of $6 million. community’s medical clinic, and a hotelier who Please help us get over the finish line if you have not yet had a chance provided free rooms for front-line medical workers. to contribute. The Transforming Windsor Law building project will In a myriad of ways – through client service, provide us with a law school home which is suitable for 21st century community involvement or daily acts of humanity law teaching and learning. The building will be more welcoming and and compassion – I know Windsor Law grads have sustainable. It will also better reflect the diversity of our student been living out our values. And my thanks you to those who, even in body, including through the use of Indigenous design principles and the midst of a pandemic, have continued to help your law school build universal design around accessibility and student amenities. WELCOME NEW FACULTY HIRES DANARDO JONES MANOJ MATE TESS SHELDON Professor Danardo Jones Professor Manoj Mate Professor Tess Sheldon is an experienced criminal will be joining Windsor joined the University of defence lawyer and Law as a tenure-track Windsor Faculty of Law criminal justice scholar, professor in January 2021 in 2018 as our Externship who will be joining the from the University of Director. She has now Windsor Law community in California, Irvine School rejoined us as a tenure- January 2021 as a tenure- of Law, where he served track professor. Professor track professor, teaching in as a Visiting Professor Sheldon writes, presents the areas of criminal law, and Visiting Scholar at the and teaches extensively race and the law and access to justice. He Center for Globalization, Law, and Society. His on a variety of mental health, access to earned a BA in Law from Carleton University, research focuses on international trade law justice, disability and human rights topics. a JD from the University of Ottawa, and an and development, law and globalization, and Dr. Sheldon completed her doctorate at the LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, where comparative constitutional law. His current University of Toronto, exploring the legal he is also currently completing his PhD. research examines how international trade law issues raised by the covert administration Professor Jones also has years of experience norms are constructed and implemented at of medication in psychiatric settings. She working as a staff lawyer at various Legal Aid the domestic, regional, and transnational level practiced with Ontario’s legal clinic system, organizations across Eastern Canada and through studies of WTO dispute resolution, including at ARCH Disability Law Centre and Ontario. His scholarly research investigates contestation over development norms at the Justice for Children and Youth. Dr. Sheldon’s how race, particularly Blackness, is or ought WTO, and implementation of the Canada-U.S.- research, including about coercive medication to be understood and articulated within the Mexico Agreement. Professor Mate received his administration practices in psychiatric criminal justice system. PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, settings, scrutinizes the role of law to protect and his JD from Harvard Law School. and promote our communities’ health. AN EXCEPTIONAL LAW SCHOOL FOR A CHANGING WORLD DUAL JD CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ALUMNI To celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our AWARDS Congratulations to this year’s Dual JD Alumni alumni, Windsor Law presents the annual Alumni Awards: Awards recipients! DUAL JD DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD EMERGING LEADERS Dual JD Distinguished Alumni award is given to alumni with significant career Previous Winners include: IN THE LAW AWARD achievements who has embraced the Justice Andrew Sanfilippo ’81 (2018) Previous Winners include: missions and values of Detroit Mercy Law Justice Andrew Pinto ’93 (2018) Mariam Moktar ’12 (2018) and Windsor Law: Jay Kellerman ’86 (2018) Fabio Costante ’13 (2018) Justice Carole Curtis ’76 (2018) Evan Kubes ‘16 (2019) Curtis Cusinato ’91 (Bennett Jones LLP) Allan Stitt ’88 (2019) Joshua Marcus ‘16 (2019) Heidi Reinhart ’05 (Norton Rose Fulbright LLP) Nils Engelstad ‘07 (2019) DUAL JD EMERGING LEADER Heather Hansen ‘06 (2019) BUILDERS OF WINDSOR LAW AWARD Dual JD Emerging Leader award is given to AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY an alumnus who has graduated within the CONTRIBUTION TO WINDSOR Previous Winners include: last 10 years with considerable early career Dr. Ron W. Ianni (posthumous) (2018) accomplishments: LAW IN MEMORY OF JOHN Professor Emeritus John Whiteside, Q.C. Vivian Ntiri ’17 (Foresters International) MOUNTAIN ’86 (posthumous) (2018) Previous Winners include: Dr. Bruce Elman (2018) DUAL JD TRANSNATIONAL LEADER Justice Steven Rogin ’71 Professor Emeritus George Stewart (2018) Dual JD Transnational Leader award is given (posthumous) (2018) Mary Gold (2019) to an alumnus who has achieved a significant Jamie Johnson ’87 (2019) Neil Gold (2019) impact with their Dual JD degree on an Justice Mary Jo Nolan ’81 (2019) international scale: Stephen Kim ’97 (Indivior) ACCESS TO JUSTICE AWARD To nominate a colleague for an Previous Winners include: Ed Ma ’98 (2018) award, please contact Karen Sonja Popovic ’07 (2018) Momotiuk Chapman by December Suhuyini Abudalai ’08 (2019) UPCOMING Nancy Merrill ’88 (2019) 4, 2020: [email protected] EVENTS TWL DEDICATION CEREMONY January 14, 2021 FACULTY RESEARCH UPDATE CLASS OF 2000 VIRTUAL REUNION Read the latest issue of the Faculty Research Update annual To Be Announced newsletter, highlighting research accomplishments of Windsor Law faculty members: uwindsor.ca/law/research. CLASS OF 1971 VIRTUAL Dr. Laverne Jacobs, Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) REUNION To Be Announced 2 RODZIK FAMILY MAKES GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION TO TWL CAMPAIGN For 75 years, the Rodziks have the University itself has to keep attracting themselves been a corner- those students. A new building for the law stone of the Windsor business school was key to this. With Windsor Law’s community. In 1945, Matthew reputation growing every year, the Rodziks felt Rodzik co-founded the National the school needed a commensurately compel- Auto Radiator Manufactur- ling and modern home. “With all due respect ing Company Limited, which to the university, the law school needed to be initially produced radiators updated and refreshed,” says Don Jr., who for the tractors and combines also sits on the Transforming Windsor Law produced by, among others, fundraising committee. “It’s been the same for Massey Harris (later Massey over fifty years. But Windsor Law is nationally Ferguson). By the 1950s, as recognized now, it’s one of the University’s auto manufacturing boomed, flagship departments, and it’s something we NARMCO (as the company is need to tout. The graduates we’re turning out now known) re-tooled its equip- of there, the professors that we now have, ment and entered the automo- are world-class, and we want to continue to BY JASON MCBRIDE tive stamping business, serving be world-class.” For his part, Don Sr. likens Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. NARMCO the transformation of the law building to In early April, the Transforming Windsor Law has always been a family business and Mat- the way his own company has adapted and (TWL) capital campaign took a great leap thew’s son, Don, who studied engineering at evolved over the years. “In the business world, forward thanks to a generous gift from the the University of Detroit, joined his dad after you have to keep up with the marketplace,” Don Rodzik Foundation. Not content to just a stint at Ford. He is currently the NARMCO he says. “It’s ever developing. The law too is support the transformation of the Ron W. Ianni Group’s Chief Executive Officer, with the group ever-changing.” building, the foundation is also helping to now comprising nine companies in Canada, “To date we have raised nearly $5 million establish the first endowed research chair po- the United States and Mexico. sition at Windsor Law. The gift is making these of our $6 million fundraising goal, largely plans a reality, with a donation of $3 million Don’s son, Don Rodzik Jr., likewise planned thanks to our Campaign Cabinet, which is over the next 3 years, the largest individual gift to follow his father into NARMCO, but from a our fundraising board. Don Rodzik Jr. is a in Windsor Law’s history. somewhat different angle. After finishing his member of this group and he and his family undergraduate studies at Boston College, he have made this project a possibility with their When the renovated building is open, the was eager to return home and entered Wind- input and financial support. We could not be Moot Court and Law Library will be renamed sor Law and the University of Detroit Mercy’s more grateful for such backing from a strong, in honour of the Rodzik family. “The build- Dual JD program, where he made a point of proudly rooted Windsor family,” says Dean Dr. ing provides the bricks-and-mortar for the studying subjects that would be useful in the Christopher Waters. learning environment,” Don Rodzik, Sr., says. business: labour and employment law, inter- The Rodzik family’s philanthropy has been felt “It’s a great toolbox. And the research chair in national business.