Written for senior or graduate-level courses and seminars in education law/administration at four-year schools and law schools. Thorough coverage of case law as it applies to elementary and secondary school administrators. This interdisciplinary approach integrates law and educational policy throughout. Complete update includes new material on search and seizure, religion, educational quality, student rights, etc. Edited cases and articles are integrated with notes and discussion questions.
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About the Author:
Mark G. Yudof became the 19th University of California president in the summer of 2008. Previously, he served as chancellor of the University of Texas system since August 2002, and president of the University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002. Before that, he was a faculty member and administrator at UT Austin for 26 years, serving as dean of the law school from 1984 to 1994 and as the university's executive vice president and provost from 1994 to 1997. His career at UT Austin began in 1971, when he was appointed an assistant professor of law. He has continued to teach throughout his administrative career. While on the UT law faculty, he was also a visiting professor at the law schools at the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, and conducted research as a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick in England. Yudof is a distinguished authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression and education law who has written and edited numerous publications on free speech and gender discrimination, including "Educational Policy and the Law." He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. He recently completed a two-year term on the U.S. Department of Education's Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy and has served as a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. A Philadelphia native, he earned an LL.B. degree (cum laude) in 1968 from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a B.A. degree (cum laude with honors in political science) in 1965. He was awarded the Alumni Award of Merit (2001) and the prestigious James Wilson Award (2004) by the University of Pennsylvania Law School for his many years of service and contributions to the legal community.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0314772995
- ISBN 13 9780314772992
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
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