The Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network (TLRJN) is a research and action hub located at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, that explores the intersections between race, law, migration, and global justice. Rooted in critical, anti-colonial, and anti-racist traditions, our network brings together scholars, students, practitioners, and community partners who are engaged in challenging the ways law operates as a tool of racialized control, dispossession, displacement, and inequality both within and across borders.
Our network focuses on the transnational dimensions of racial justice, understanding that racialized harm and resistance do not stop at the boundaries of the nation-state. From global migration regimes and extractive economies, to policing, surveillance, and the carceral state, our work examines how law enables and resists racial capitalism, settler colonialism, empire, and other forms of structural violence.
Through research collaborations, public events, advocacy, and curriculum development, TLRJN aims to foster solidarities across movements, communities, and geographies. We are especially committed to centering the voices and knowledges of Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, and other racialized communities whose legal and political struggles illuminate the limits and the possibilities of law and justice.
TLRJN recognizes that the University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We call for truth and reconciliation with all Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.
People
TLRJN is comprised of Windsor Law faculty, students and staff. The TLRJN Director is appointed for two years to guide our activities. The TLRJN Board sets strategic directions. Windsor Law faculty affiliates collaborate on projects and offer suggestions on global issues in the spirit of solidarity. TLRJN student fellows are actively involved in all aspects of TLRJN’s work from website development to litigation, the creation of public education tools and working directly with community based organizations. We are grateful for the support provided by Windsor Law staff. Through our activities, we have established a growing global network of scholars who share our approach to teaching, pedagogy and research.
Board Members – 2024/2025
Vasanthi Venkatesh – Director, Associate Professor
Danardo Jones – Assistant Professor
Vincent Wong – Assistant Professor
Sylvia McAdam – Assistant Professor
Joshua Sealy-Harrington – Associate Professor
Click here to see our past board members.
Windsor Law Faculty Affiliates
TLRJN is home to a number of local, national and international experts whose scholarship translates theory into practice in their respective communities and primarily focuses on the intersection of local/global. A highlight of Windsor Law’s faculty research can be found here.
TLRJN Fellows – 2024/2025
Senior Fellows – January 2025
Dr. Hadeel Abu Hussein
Dr. Cynthia Farid
Graduate Fellows
Saranga Ugalmugle
Saranga Ugalmugle is a social justice and social movement advocate with over five years of experience in India. She has worked on matters pertaining to women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, labor rights, and environmental justice among others in India. She is a legal researcher who has also been associated with socio-political and civil liberties groups over the years. She has been part of fact-finding committees to Kashmir. Saranga is interested in questions of law, society, and its relationship with violence.In 2021, she completed her graduate studies in Law and Development at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She completed her LL.B. at ILS Law College, Pune, India in 2016. Saranga is currently pursuing her LLM with a Certificate in University Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor. She is currently a graduate fellow of the TLRJN and serves as the editorial assistant to the TWAILR editorial collective.
Ebenezer Gyamerah
JD Fellows
Nadeen Al-Taher
Meg Gregoire
Click here to see our past student fellows.
Global Network
TLRJN is grateful to the following people for their participation in our activities:
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Sandy Abadir
Maha AbdelAzim
Mohamed Abdelsalam
Georges Abi-Saab
Noha Aboueldahab
Hesham Abozeid
Paola Acosta-Alvarado
Fatima Ahmed
Hassan Ahmad
Nadia Ahmad
Richard Albert
Raquel Aldana
Jerusa Ali
Jean Allain
Amaya Alvez
Masa Amir
Paolo Amorosa
Natalia Angel-Cabo
Tony Anghie
Bridget Anderson
Maria Aristodemou
Courtney Arseneau
Donna Ashamock
Ibrahim Awad
Maysa Ayoub
Valentina Azarova
Rémi Bachand
Nesrine Badawi
Cecilia Bailliet
Clayton Bangsund
Maria Bargh
Ignacio Forcada Barona
Jose Manuel Barrreto
Jason Beckett
Marwa Beitalmal
Clarisa Bencomo
Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Amaya Betancur-Restrepo
Khaled A. Beydoun
Faisal Bhabha
Amar Bhatia
Lisa Bhungalia
Annie Bird
Muin Boase
John Borrows
Lindsay Borrows
Andrée Boisselle
Tamara Buckworld
Sarah Buhler
Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
Srinivas Burra
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Fathima Cader
Marsha Cadogan
Antonio Calcagno
Shannon Callahan
Fabia Fernandes Carbalho-Vecoso
Sue Chiblow
Cyra Akila Choudhury
Aziz Choudry
Aimée Craft
Matthew Craven
Ronald Cuming
John Cutfeet
Vargha Dana
Emad Daoud
Julia Dehm
James Devine
Luwam Dirar
Karen Drake
Enakshi Dua
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Angelique EagleWoman
Ahmed Ebada
Mary Eberts
Jihan El Alaily
Sally Elfishawy
Habiba El-Kharbotly
Ahmed Hishan El-Sheikh
Joanna Erdman
Luis Eslava
Michael Fakhri
Jordan Falk
Yusuf Faqiri
Cynthia Farid
Anthony Fenton
Alexandra Flynn
Mirielle Fournier
Claiton Fyock
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Mohammed Galal
George Galindo
Manimuthu Gandhi
Kristi Leora Gansworth
Benjamin Geva
Christopher Gevers
Ahmed Gamal Abdel Ghany
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Yugank Goyal
Gustavo Gozzi
Priya Gupta
Adham Hamdy
Mohammad Hamdy
Ali Hammoudi
Vanja Hamzić
Jackie Hansen
Mark Harris
Sara Hassan
Walid Hejazi
Gail Henderson
Jacqueline P. Hand
Sam Holder
Syeda Re’em Hussein
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Farida Ibrahim
Fatma Ibrahim
Maureen Irish
K’èdukà Jack
Barbara Jackman
Maja Janmyr
Yvonne Johnson
Satvinder Juss
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Atif Kabursi
Ioannis Kalpouzos
Sylvia Kang’ara
Azeezah Kanji
Vik Kanwar
Mudar Kassis
Despina Katsaros
Adil Khan
Mohamed Khimji
Kishan Khoday
Asad Kiyani
Robert Knox
Freya Kodar
Tor Krever
Vidya Kumar
Darryl Li
Darcy Lindberg
Georgia Lloyd-Smith
Anna Lund
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Anne-Charlotte Martineau
Peggy Mason
Mazen Masri
Emily Matheisen
Nombuso Mathibela
Heidi Matthews
Tyler McCreary
Deborah McGregor
Zina Miller
Terry Mitchell
Mariam Miranda
Noha Morsi
Muhammad Ahmed Mousa
Jasmine Moussa
Russell Nahdee
Tom Najem
Shannu Narayan
Youssef Nassar
Usha Natarajan
Hadayt Nazami
Vasuki Nesiah
Nicole Nussbaum
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Liliana Obregón
Lama Abu Odeh
Olanike Odewale
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Zoran Oklopcic
Assis da Costa Oliveira
Veronica Overlid
Jose Aylwin Oyarzun
Sundhya Pahuja
Genevieve Painter
Rose Parfitt
Gianluca Parolin
John Pottow
Enrique Prieto-Rios
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Joanna R. Quinn
John Reynolds
Thays Ricarte
Daniel Rivas-Ramirez
Emily Rosser
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Hussein Salama
Youssef Sallam
Salwa Salman
Abouelfetouh Sammak
Nahed Samour
German Sandoval
Hani Sayed
Christine Schwobel-Patel
Dayna Nadine Scott
Kalana Senaratne
Rayanna Seymour-Hourie
Sayed Shaarawy
Ayesha Shahid
Amr Shalakany
Nizammudin Ahmed Siddiqui
Ximena Sierra
Prabhakar Singh
Thomas Skouteris
Joseph Slaughter
Nevine Soliman
Isabel Solis
Adrian Smith
Gavin Smith
Paul Simard Smith
Shawna Smith
Rahma Gamil A. Soliman
Ahila Sornarajah
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Estella Labardi de Souza
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Allyson Stevenson
Ramaswamy Sudarshan
Mai Taha
Heather Teague
Jennifer Terrell
Darren Thomas
Robinson Torres Virginia Torrie
Germán Sandoval Trigo
Patricia Tuitt
Joey Twins
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Basil Ugochukwu
Miguel Angel Urbina
Diana Van Bogaert
Estair Van Wagner
Fabia Vecoso
Sharon Venne
Moisés Moreira Vieira
Sharath Voleti
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Barrington Walker
Mary Wiebusch
Ralph Wilde
Jeremy Wildeman
Kristin Wu
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Chen Yifeng
Emily Zell
Wilfried Zoungrana
Peer Zumbansen