This course provides a comprehensive overview of the law as it impacts the American primary and secondary education system. Course topics include education as an individual right and a state duty; campus safety; student and teacher rights relating to expression, religion and privacy; educational policy development; copyright issues; education of students with disabilities; educational funding and accountability; and other topics as they timely emerge in the ongoing public debates over education policy and law. Students planning to take the Education Law Seminar (Law 944) are strongly recommended to take this course first.

RECOMMENDED: Constitutional Law II (Law 822).