Research Guides: Education Law: Higher Education Law

Current Awareness

Chronicle of Higher Education
Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students.
Inside Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.

General Reference Materials

Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education by Charles J. Russo (Editor)
Call Number: Reference KF4225.A68 E53 2010
The Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education is a compendium of information that tells the story of law and higher education from a variety of perspectives. It places legal issues in perspective so that students of higher education and the law can inform policy makers and practitioners about the meaning and status of the law and also raise questions for future research as they seek to improve the quality of learning for all.
Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education (E-Book) by Charles J. Russo
Call Number: Available Online
Electronic version.
Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy by Peter F. Lake
Call Number: 5th Floor KF4225 .L34 2011
Foundations of Higher Education Law & Policy is a concise, readable, and easy-to-use reference book that offers a fresh perspective on core law and policy information in a format for non-lawyers.
Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law by Charles Russo
Call Number: 4th Floor K3755 .H36 2013
Addresses legal issues from institutions of higher learning in seventeen countries on all six inhabited continents. Outlines institutional issues, faculty rights, student rights, and emerging issues. Provides an overview on the legal status of higher education as selected in various international covenants.
Higher Education Law in America by Center for Education & Employment Law (Editor)
Call Number: 5th Floor KF4225 .H54 2012
Brings together in one volume the latest updates covering school operations and school finance, athletics and student activities, discrimination against students, freedom of speech and school liability.
The Law of Higher Education by William A. Kaplin; Barbara A. Lee
Call Number: Course Reserve KF4225 .K362 2014
An up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing higher education administrators for leadership roles.
The Law of Higher Education by William A. Kaplin; Barbara A. Lee
Call Number: Reserve KF4225 .K36 2013
Reference, research source, and practical legal guide for college and university administrators, campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers, addressing major legal issues and regulatory developments in higher education.

Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A database for scholarly research across a variety of disciplines. It contains indexing and abstracts, along with selected full text of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention, preschool, K-12, and higher education. Some full-text available via UConn Links. Access via EBSCO interface. Search together with PsycINFO or Academic Search Premier. Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, arts and music education, and library science. Summarizes unpublished documents such as curriculum guides, dissertations, opinion papers, conference proceedings, program descriptions, standards, and tests.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Our license prohibits users from copying, downloading, or attempting to download an entire issue or issues of a journal.
Legal Source This link opens in a new window
A full text database of nearly 900 legal journals as well as indexing of legal journals, yearbooks, bar association publications, and law reviews. For search results that do not contain full text, use the UConn Law Links to see if the material is available elsewhere in the library's collection.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window
Index and selected full text of articles from major law reviews, bar association journals, legal newspapers, and international legal journals, with coverage from 1980 to the present.
Lexis Advance This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive full-text legal database that includes primary and secondary legal materials, legal news, and law related documents.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Includes scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Journal coverage spans from the 1800s to the present and includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
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A comprehensive full-text legal database that includes primary and secondary legal materials, legal news, and law related documents.

Other Books

College and School Law by Michael Prairie; Timothy Garfield; Dominic Marino
Call Number: 5th Floor KF4225 .P73 2010
College and School Law provides a comprehensive and comprehensible framework for managing risk in the real work of educational administration.
Suing Alma Mater by Michael A. Olivas
Call Number: 5th Floor KF4225 .O45 2013
As universities become increasingly legislated, regulated, and litigious, campuses have become testing grounds for a host of constitutional challenges. From faculty and student free speech to race- or religion-based admissions policies, Suing Alma Mater describes the key issues at play in higher education law.
Higher Education Rulemaking by Rebecca S. Natow
Call Number: 5th Floor KF4225 .N38 2017x
Many higher education academics and administrators have only vague notions about how the federal government makes regulations governing colleges and universities in the United States, and yet these regulations control many important aspects of the operation of these institutions. In this concise and informative book, higher education policy expert Rebecca S. Natow explores the how and why of the federal regulatory policymaking process as it pertains to higher education, financial aid, and student loan debt.

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