Schools and courts: Competing rights in the new millennium

SHAHEEN SHARIFF is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Her appointment is in leadership, policy studies and education law, informed by human rights, constitutional, international and tort law. She is the Principal Investigator on two research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: 1) to investigate cyber-bullying and the legal obligations of schools; and 2) to investigate the impact of Quebec’s intercultural policies on immigrant students post-September 11th. Dr. Shariff is currently writing two books: 1) Censorship in Schools; and 2) “A System on Trial᾿ which involves the development of guidelines for educators on emerging legal challenges, liability and student safety issues relating to new technologies.

ROD DOLMAGE teaches educational administration (educational law, the politics of education and change theory) in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He is past Chair of the Educational Administration Subject Area and past Chair of Graduate Programs in Education. He was formerly a high school English and Theatre Arts teacher in Saskatchewan, a college administrator (adult special education) in British Columbia and Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Rod is the author of So You Want to Be a Teacher: The guide to teaching as a career choice in Canada, is a former Acting-Editor-in-Chief of the Education & Law Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations. His current research and writing interests include educational policy, politics and law; the media and the courts in development of public policy related to education; and international education.