1. Home
  2. Education and the Law

Education and the Law

6th Edition
Kevin Welner | Robert Kim | Stuart Biegel
ISBN: 9781685610944
Subject: Education Law
Format: Print - Hardbound
Page Count: 1133
Copyright: 2024 | Status: In Stock
Other Formats Available

With extensive restructuring and new content, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues affecting K-12 as well as higher education, including expanded coverage of First Amendment issues in both sectors. The book maintains its strong focus on equal access to quality education, its policy emphasis, and its groundbreaking analyses of technology-related issues and the education of LGBTQ+ students. Additional topical coverage includes campus safety and the criminal justice system, student discipline and due process, sexual harassment and assault, the rights of educators, bilingual education, disability rights law, the current status of affirmative action, school segregation and race-conscious remedies, religion in the schools and church/state separation, gender equity, free speech and expression and censorship, privacy law issues, the school-to-prison pipeline, cyber-bullying, school finance, the Every Student Succeeds Act, accountability and affordability in postsecondary education, charter school legal issues, and the embattled rights of undocumented students.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 12/21/2023

Kevin Welner, Colorado

Robert Kim

Stuart Biegel

CasebookPlus™

This title is available in our CasebookPlus format. CasebookPlus provides support beyond your classroom lectures and materials by offering additional digital resources to you and your students. Anchored by faculty-authored formative self-assessments keyed to our most popular casebooks, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts as they are learning them in class – on their own, outside of the classroom, with no extra work on your part. CasebookPlus combines three important elements:

  • A new print or digital casebook
  • Access to a downloadable eBook with the ability to highlight and add notes
  • 12-month access to a digital Learning Library complete with:
Multiple-choice self-assessment questions, including:
  • Chapter questions keyed to the casebook
  • Black Letter Law questions (available in select subjects)
  • Subject area review questions for end of semester use
Essay and short answer questions with sample answers and expert commentary, in 1L and select upper-level subjects

Leading digital study aids, an outline starter, and audio lectures in select subjects

Students can still utilize CasebookPlus digital resources if they’ve purchased a used book or are renting their text by purchasing the Learning Library at westacademic.com.

With CasebookPlus, you can customize your students’ learning experience and monitor their performance. The quiz editor allows you to create your own custom quiz set, suppress specific quiz questions or quiz sets, and time-release quiz questions. Additionally, the flexible, customized reporting capability helps you evaluate your students’ understanding of the material and can also help your school demonstrate compliance with the new ABA Assessment and Learning Outcomes standards.

Learn more about this series.