LAW-540 - Education Law

Semester Credits: 2 Weeks: 10

The first half of the class looks at the Constitutional and statutory protections that govern the education system. Students will explore the intersection of Constitutional Law and the educational system, focusing on students’ rights under the first, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments including privacy rights, rights to speech, religion, and assembly, search and seizure rights, due process rights, and equal protection rights. These constitutional rights form the basis of important statutory protections such as rights under FERPA and Title IX that will also be explored in the class. Special Education law will be explored in detail in the second half of the class. Centered around the concept of FAPE (“Free and Appropriate Public Education”) this half of the class will focus in on the statutory protections and adversarial process particular to special education law.