Legal Education

Education and the Legal System: A Guide to Underst...

Here is a complete yet accessible guide to the laws that most often affect policies and procedures in educational institutions. A conversational, reader-friendly tone pervades the book; its practical, case-study approach makes the discussion of key legal issues and examples of landmark cases easy for the reader to understand. Its focus is the practice of preventive law, allowing readers to recognize legal issues and...

Law School: Legal Education in America from the 18...

Stevens, Robert. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-199-2. Cloth. $85. Comprehensive history of over a century of legal education in America. Examines the law school institution and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded...

Legal Aspects of Special Education...

For every course in Special Education Law and Education Law, or as a perfect supplement to any Educational Administration course, Legal Aspects of Special Education was written by a practitioner to help teachers, administrators, and advocates understand special education law in everyday language without excessive legalese or extraneous case law. Different in many ways from other special education law texts on the market, all...

Legal Aspects of Special Education and Pupil Servi...

This book provides a unique synthesis of information regarding the legal issues confronting schools with regards to special education and pupil services. The narrative format is combined with a heavy use of visual material. This is a broad-based book which covers all of the topics that pupil services and special educators must deal with. ...

The Legal, Professional and Ethical Dimensions of ...

This unique textbook provides the master and doctoral level graduate students in the nurse educator course curriculum, post-doctoral students, and educators with an introduction to basic concepts and principles of the legal, professional and ethical dimensions of education. It discusses trends in the evolution of law, analyzes legal cases, extrapolates legal principles for case law, and discusses the significance of these...

The Practice of Law School: Getting In and Making ...

This handbook for aspiring lawyers coaches them to make the most of law school by taking charge of their education and burgeoning careers early on. It provides current and future law students with invaluable information about the law school application process, financing law school, selecting classes, evaluating study groups, developing effective exam-taking strategies, choosing extracurricular activities and summer jobs,...

Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy:...

In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journalsunprecedented for a self-published workand influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and...

The Best Interests of the Student: Applying Ethica...

This text for educational leadership courses presents a theoretical model based on the “best interests of the student” for examining legal and ethical dimensions of court cases. It: *provides an examination of both law and ethics pertinent to all educators but aimed specifically at school leaders; *introduces an ethical decision-making model that focuses on strategies for determining what actions are in the...

The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregate...

The NAACP’s fight against segregated education–the first public interest litigation campaign–culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and political and legal skills of staff members...

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