Books of Law / Educational Law & Legislation

  • Legislative Process
    By Eric Lane, Abner J. Mikva

    Once again, expert authors Mikva and Lane draw on their considerable experience to explore and explain the legislative institutions and processes of the United States. Legislative Process, Second Edition, offers...

  • Special Education Law
    By Peter S. Latham, Patricia H. Latham, Myrna Mandlawitz

    Clear, well organized presentation of IDEA and other pertinent federal laws, together with well organized discussion of relevant cases, help educators understand and apply their knowledge in concrete situations. ...

  • Special Education Law
    By Laura F. Rothstein

    Special Education Law provides a comprehensive and current overview of the major federal laws -- and judicial interpretations of those laws -- that apply to the education of children with...

  • American Public School Law
    By Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander

    Uses the case method to provide graduate students in education as well as law students with a comprehensive view of the complex web of laws and court decisions governing the...

  • Special Education Law
    By Laura F. Rothstein

    Special Education Law provides a comprehensive and current overview of the major federal laws -- and judicial interpretations of those laws -- that apply to the education of children with...

  • The Colleges, Their Constituencies and the Courts
    By Robert M. Hendrickson

    This volume examines legal concepts and issues as they apply to colleges and universities, including the key cases, state and federal statutes, and administrative rules and regulations. Chapter 1 describes...

  • Higher Education Law in America

    Higher Education Law in America

  • The Law and Special Education
    By Mitchell L. Yell

    The Bendosa family is so poor that they hardly eat anything but lentil soup. So when a lost little chicken wanders into their front yard, Leora envisions keeping it as...

  • Public School Law: Teachers' and Students' Rights
    By Martha M. McCarthy, Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe

    Public School Law: Teachers' and Students' Rights

  • The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law
    By Jim Walsh, Frank R. Kemerer

    A reference book for school administrators, school board governors, school attorneys, teachers, coaches, counsellors and university professors who wish to find information on Texas education law.

  • The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law
    By Jim Walsh, Frank R. Kemerer

    This book is intended for all Texas school personnel--superintendents, principals, teachers, supervisors, counselors, and coaches--as well as school board members and school law attorneys. The authors endeavor to explain in...

  • Giving Children a Chance to Learn: The D.C. Student Opportunity Scholarship Act : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of...
    By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia

    Giving Children a Chance to Learn: The D.C. Student Opportunity Scholarship Act : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of...

  • Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century
    By Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

    The plight of John T. Scopes dominated headlines for weeks, but behind the scenes of the famous "Monkey Trial" were other dramas hidden from public view. Now a serendipitous discovery...

  • The Shame of American Legal Education
    By Alan Watson

    The title tells it all; American legal education is shamefully bad. Casebooks are endemic, especially in the first year, teaching by terror. Abridged cases are presented, shorn of context, with...

  • Rights and Realities: The Judicial Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Education, Case Law, and Political...
    By Jonathan L. Black-Branch

    The enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms precipitated change within educational institutions, affecting all levels of governance, administration and day-to-day teaching. This book illustrates the ways in...

  • The Principal's Legal Handbook
    By William E. Camp

    This handbook for elementary and secondary school principals contains several chapters on topics important to building level administrators. Each chapter summarizes relevant state and federal court decisions and statutes, concluding...

  • Law and Education: Contemporary Issues and Court Decisions
    By Richard S. Vacca, William C. Bosher

    Law and Education: Contemporary Issues and Court Decisions

  • Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX
    By Jessica Gavora

    When Congress passed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972, they seemed to be doing something laudable and also long overdue-prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in...

  • 学校治理变革研究:司法判例的视角
    By 方芳著

    随着教育改革的深入,学校治理正在发生变革,日渐呈现出多元主体、多维结构、多重权责关系。学校在实现共治的同时也产生着利益冲突和矛盾,进而形成司法判例。本书择取了大量与学校治理相关的司法判例,通过对案件的研究,分别就学校法律地位、学生管理制度、教师人事管理制度、学校安全治理模式、民办学校发展路径等问题进行探讨。本书旨在通过司法判例的视角,反观学校治理变革中存在的问题与难点,寻求的解决对策。

  • Wrightslaw: Idea 2004
    By Peter W. D. Wright, Pamela Darr Wright

    The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) is confusing to parents, educators, and even to most attorneys. Wrightslaw: IDEA 2004 provides a clear roadmap to the law...