UNB Law

UNB Law is excited to welcome two outstanding new faculty members: Professors Frankie Young and Peter Wills. With their appointments, the Faculty’s full-time complement grows to 22.

Frankie Young joins UNB Law as an Associate Professor from the University of Ottawa (Common Law Section), where she has served as an Assistant Professor since 2022. She earned her PhD from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, with research focused on Indigenous economic development. Prof. Young holds both a JD and an LLM from the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, and an undergraduate degree in Organizational Management from Crandall University in New Brunswick.

Her primary research areas include Indigenous economic development and self-government, trusts, Indigenous business law, community economic development, and Indigenous law.

Peter Wills joins UNB Law as an Assistant Professor. He recently completed his Doctorate at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, where his research examined Machine Learning Systems and Anglo-Canadian Tort Law. Prof. Wills holds an LLM from King’s College, University of Cambridge (First Class Honours), a JD from Harvard Law School, and both an M.Eng. (Civil Engineering) and a BA from the University of Toronto.

His primary research areas explore the intersection of law and artificial intelligence, and how imbalances of power shape the development of Canadian private law jurisprudence. Prof. Wills previously clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

UNB Law is proud to welcome Professors Young and Wills to our community of scholars and looks forward to their contributions to teaching, research, and public engagement.