The Law Foundation of Ontario is honouring a University of Windsor law professor for her work advancing human rights in the West Bank.
Professor Reem Bahdi will be recognized at a reception later this year.
She is being awarded the 2017 Guthrie Award, created in 1996 to honour Donald Guthrie who is a chair and trustee of the foundation.
Bahdi is Canada's first tenured Palestinian-Canadian law professor. She has steered developments in the Palestinian justice system, developed a model for judicial education to advance human rights in the West Bank, and helped form Windsor Law's mandatory access to justice course.
During her career, Bahdi was also visiting professor at Birzeit University's graduate program in democracy and human rights in the West Bank.
"Her contributions to legal education are multifaceted," says Dean of Law, Christopher Waters. "From innovative teaching to mentoring, and from cutting-edge research to equity-led administrative service, Professor Bahdi has been in the forefront of not only interrogating access to justice on a theoretical plain, but in making our institutional theme a lived one for faculty, staff, and students."
