Contributors

• Author: David C. Young
• Pages: 339-343

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Contributors

Brenda Bowlby was a member of Hic ks Morley, an employment, labou r,

and education law r m, until she ret ired from the par tnership in 2015 after

thir ty-three year s. Her practice involved representing school boa rds, and

she built the r m’s special education pract ice, appearin g before the On-

tario Speci al Education Tribunal on numerou s occasions and representi ng

school boards i n signicant court ca ses and Human Right s Tribunal cases

involving spe cial education i ssues. Among the ca ses she has arg ued is Eaton

v Brant County Board of Education (star ting with the Special E ducation Tri-

bunal of Onta rio and concluding in the Supreme Cour t of Canada), which

remains Ca nada’s leading case on specia l education law. She is a co-author

of An Educator’s Guide to Special Education and An Educator’s Guide to Human

Rights Law, both in their se cond editions.

Nora M Findlay, PhD, has recently ret ired after ser ving more than t wenty-

ve years as an educ ator and school-based admin istrator in Sask atchewan.

She is a recipient of a SSHRC (Socia l Sciences and Huma nities Researc h

Council) doctora l fellowship and a CAPSLE (Ca nadian Association for t he

Practica l Study of Law in Educat ion) fellowship. She has a lso received a

High Commendat ion Award from the UCEA (Un iversity Counci l for Edu-

cational Adm inistration) Centr e for the Study of Leadership a nd Ethics for

her doctoral di ssertat ion. Nora has published in a number of periodica ls,

including the Education & Law Journal and Educational Administrat ion Quar-

terly, contributed policy an alyses to CA PSLE Comments, and co-authored

several book chapters on education law. Her scholarly int erests include

school law, student right s, school safety, Indigenous educat ion, education-

al admi nistration, and s chool leadership.