Education 
Ph.D., University of Rochester - Educational Leadership, Thought and Policy
J.D., University of Ottawa - Faculty of Common Law
M.S. Ed., Niagara University - Intermediate and Secondary Education
B.A. (Hons.), University of Ottawa - History/International and Comparative Politics
Reviews editor
Theory and Research in Education (SAGE)
Research interests
Education law and policy; educational leadership; custodial authority; children’s rights; political ideology and social policy
Grants and awards
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (2013)
Strategic Initiatives Grant, Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL (2013)
Work in progress
As coordinating author
Blokhuis, J.C., Campbell, C.J., Campbell, C., and Christian, W. (2022). Political Ideologies in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars. [under contract]
As contributing volume editor
Blokhuis, J.C. (2022). Legal Foundations of Education, Vol. VI in Foundations of Education (B. Maxwell and L. Bialystok, series eds.). London, UK: Bloomsbury. [under contract]
Recent publications
As lead and coordinating author
Blokhuis, J.C., Feldman, J., Imber, M. & van Geel, T. (2021). Education Law, 6e. New York: Routledge. [released on July 28, 2020]

Covell, K., Howe, R.B. and Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, 2e. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imber, M., van Geel, T., Blokhuis, J.C. & Feldman, J. (2014). A Teacher’s Guide to Education Law, 5e. New York: Routledge.
Recent journal articles
Blokhuis, J.C. & Curren, R. (2020). “Judicialization in Education,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education [forthcoming]
Curren, R. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). “Friday Night Lights Out: The End of Football in Schools,” Harvard Educational Review 88 (2): 141-162
Brophy, S. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2017). “Defining Legal Studies in Canada,” Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 12 (1): 7-18; REPRINTED in S.Tasson et al., [eds.] (2018). Introduction to Legal Studies, Vol. 1: Foundations and Rights Protection. Concord, ON: Captus Press, pp. 148-154
Blokhuis, J.C. (2016). “For Professional Educators, What Is ‘Meaningful Collaboration’?” Canadian Review of Social Policy 76 (1): 110-122
Blokhuis, J.C. (2015). “Student Rights and the Special Characteristics of the School Environment in American Jurisprudence,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 49 (1): 65-85
Recent book chapters
Blokhuis, J.C. & Smoke, A. (2020). “The Extraordinary Cases of J.J. and Makayla Sault,” in T. Waldock (ed.), A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Blokhuis, J.C. (2020). “The Supreme Court of Canada and the Convention,” in T. Waldock (ed.), A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Blokhuis, J.C. (2019). “Rights Talk, Redux,” in M. Laverty (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2018. Urbana, IL: PES, pp. 588-592
Blokhuis, J.C. (2019). “On Capability and the Obligation of Effective Power,” in A. Chinnery (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2017. Urbana, IL: PES, pp. 240-244
Review essays
Blokhuis, J.C. (2020).“Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, by J.G. Dwyer and S.F. Peters,” Philosophical Inquiry in Education 27 (1): 83–87
d’Ailly, H. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). “Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness, by Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci,” Theory and Research in Education 16 (3): 378-385
Blokhuis, J.C. (2017). “Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation, by Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel,” Theory and Research in Education 14 (3): 346-349
Blokhuis, J.C. (2014). “Taking Rights Seriously? On Realizing Educational Rights, by Anne Newman,” and “The Special Characteristics of Schools as Ethical Environments: On Understanding Student Rights, by Bryan R. Warnick,” Educational Theory 64 (6): 649-660
Courses taught at Renison
SDS 131R Political Ideologies and Social Development
SDS 210R/LS 273 Children’s Rights in Canada (CEL)
SDS 215R Education and Social Development from a Global Perspective
SDS 405R Cosmopolitanism and Social Development (CEL)
SDS 431R Radical Ideology and Social Policy