CAPSLE Fellows

2009 Recipient

Nora Findlay
Regina, Saskatchewan
At Law's End: An Analysis of School Administrators' Exercise of Discretion in Schools
Nora M. Findlay is currently a doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario. Of her almost twenty years as an educator, she has served for the past nine as a school-based administrator at both the elementary and secondary levels. Her paper is based upon her dissertation topic which considers the notion of discretion from legal and administrative perspectives and examines how it is exercised by school administrators as they work to balance competing rights in the school setting.

2008 Recipient

Seo Yun Yang
Montreal, Quebec
University v. Student: A Contractual Understanding of Higher Education in Canada
Seo Yun Yang is currently a B.C.L./LL.B student at McGill Faculty of Law, where she will serve as Editor in Chief of the McGill Law Journal in its upcoming volume. With an interest in education policy, she specialized her undergraduate career at Harvard University on comparative studies of higher education institutions in a knowledge economy. In law, Seo Yun is concerned with the interactions between the private law, such as contracts and intellectual property, and institutions of a public nature. In particular, this fellowship paper analyzes the contractual relationship between a Canadian university and its students to shed light on the legal challenges facing educational institutions today.

2007 Recipient

David Mangan
London, UK
Professionalism, Unionism and the Identity of Teachers
David is a member of the Ontario Bar and currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. As an LSE Fellow, he teaches at the LSE in the undergraduate LL.B. program and also serves as an LL.M Advisor for Master of Laws candidates. A former secondary school teacher, his current research focuses on public sector education labour relations in Canada and England. The paper undertaken for this fellowship investigates how the identity of teachers as ’professionals’ and union members resonates in contemporary public sector education.

2006 Recipient

David Young
London, Ontario
Secondary Physical Education, Tort Law and Risk Avoidance: An Interpretive Analysis
David Young is currently a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Western Ontario, where he also teaches courses in both educational psychology and special education. A former teacher and special education coordinator, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Education degrees from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Master of Arts degree from Acadia University. His paper, which is an extension of his doctoral research, addresses the macro question of whether compensation for personal injuries to students involved in secondary physical education in Ontario should be governed by a pure tort, no-fault, or mixed system.

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