Make sure you have a copy on your bookshelf. The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference, research source, and practical legal guide for college and university administrators, campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers, addressing all the major legal issues and regulatory developments in higher education. In the increasingly litigious environment of higher education, William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee’s clear, cogent, and contextualized legal guide proves more and more indispensable every year. Over 3,000 new cases related to higher education have been decided since the publication of the previous edition, and scores of changes to higher education law are made each year. Every section of the fifth edition contains new material, including those related to: Hate speech and free speech rights of faculty in public universities Sharing of research with international colleagues Intellectual property and peer-to-peer file sharing Student suicide Campus safety Police and administrators’ right to search students’ residence hall rooms Governmental support for religious institutions and religious autonomy rights of individual public institutions Collective bargaining and antidiscrimination laws Nondiscrimination and affirmative action in employment, admissions, and financial aid Family and Medical Leave Act and workers’ compensation FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
Based on the fourth edition of The Law of Higher Education—the indispensable guide to law that bears on the provision of higher education—this Student Edition provides an up-to-date reference and guide for coursework in higher education ...
Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the Davidson College police did not have the ... to be active members of a Christian church; Davidson students were required to take a course in religion; ...
A Colorado appellate court relied on Ross to reject the educational malpractice claims of nineteen students in Tolman v. CenCor Career Colleges, Inc., 851 P.2d 203 (Colo. App. 1992), affirmed, 868 P.2d 396 (Colo.
Now in its fourth edition, this book reflects the extraordinary growth in the law of higher education and the accompanying rise in scholarship and commentary on higher education law and governance.
Ruger, Peter H. "The Practice and Profession of Higher Education Law," 27 Stetson L. Rev. 175 (1997). Traces the evolution of higher education law practice from the earliest times to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
This text draws exclusively on federal and state cases emerging from campuses and includes helpful pedagogical elements--such as chapter outlines, questions for discussion, side bars, text boxes, research aids, and summation of law--to ...
The text is linked to the updating service on the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies website, ensuring that readers are kept up-to-date with developments, even after publication.
Written for both graduate students in student affairs administration programs and practicing professionals, this book offers specific guidance on critical messages from the legal system in terms administrators can understand, internalize, ...
This textbook clearly explains the higher education law emanating from federal and state constitutions, as well as the common law flowing from appellate courts throughout the US. Addressing a clear gap in the literature currently available, ...
Title IX was proposed by Representative Edith Green (DOR), chair of a special House Education Labor Committee which reviewed the findings of Nixon«s 1970 Task Force on Women«s Rights and Responsibilities. Committee hearings described ...