Make sure you have a copy on your bookshelf.
The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition, is the mostup-to-date and comprehensive reference, research source, andpractical legal guide for college and university administrators,campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers,addressing all the major legal issues and regulatory developmentsin higher education.
In the increasingly litigious environment of higher education,William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee's clear, cogent, andcontextualized legal guide proves more and more indispensable everyyear.
Over 3,000 new cases related to higher education have beendecided since the publication of the previous edition, and scoresof changes to higher education law are made each year. Everysection of the fifth edition contains new material, including thoserelated to:
* Hate speech and free speech rights of faculty in publicuniversities
* Sharing of research with international colleagues
* Intellectual property and peer-to-peer file sharing
* Student suicide
* Campus safety
* Police and administrators' right to searchstudents' residence hall rooms
* Governmental support for religious institutions and religiousautonomy 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)
William A. Kaplin
Bildungswesen Education Hochschule Hochschulen / Leitung, Verwaltung, Politik Leadership, Administration & Policy (Higher Education)
"[The Law of Higher Education] transcends thelaw--an important enough topic in itself--to be essentialreading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities oforganizing and managing American Higher EducationInstitutions." --The Journal of Higher Education
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