Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law (1996) is online in FindLaw
Education Law Association's "Online Resources for Education Law" -- provides links to legal search engines, associations, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Courts, and Federal government sources, online publications, and online reference sources such as dictionaries.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management's Trends and Issues: School Law Links
FindLaw, Your Source to Law on the Internet -- combines a search engine and directory of law-related sites. Supports "what cases cited my case" retrieval. Contains comprehensive links to U.S. legal resources, such as full-text law reviews, cases and codes, Court of Appeal Decisions, Code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court Opinions, law schools, law firms, abstracts of journal articles, a legal dictionary, tax forms, and many more. Includes a collection of specific education law resources also.
Legal Information Institute (Cornell). Education Law: An Overview
PA Code
Title
22: Education
Information included at this site has been derived
directly from the Pennsylvania Code, the Commonwealth's official publication
of rules and regulations.
The OYEZ Project at Northwestern University -- a multimedia resource that includes a searchable database of selected Supreme Court cases and, for some cases, the oral arguments. Searchable by title, citation, date and subject. Also includes a virtual tour of the Supreme Court.
Law Encyclopedias
Corpus Juris SecundumFairchild-Martindale
Library FM-3-NORTH 345.2 C822
Other Useful WestLaw
titles all in Fairchild-Martindale Library
West's PA Law Finder FM-2-SOUTH Documents
RD 345.3 V1492a 2000
West's Pennsylvania Digest FM-1-ANNEX
345.3 V1491 (multiple volumes)
West's Federal Practice Digest
FM-1-ANNEX 345.5 M689ac (multiple volumes)
Special Topics in Education
Law--Personnel, Special Education, etc.
Levin, Michael. Pennsylvania School Personnel
Actions. 3rd ed. West, 1994. Fairchild-Martindale
Library FM-1-REFERENCE 344.748071 L665p
Individuals with Disabilities Education
Law Reporter [looseleaf binders]. Fairchild-Martindale
Library
FM-1-REFERENCE 344.730791 E24A
Pennsylvania
Department of Education
BEC's
(Basic Education Circulars) and other important information & directives
such as "Regulations under Review" from the PDE available there. Topics
include "Special Education Services to Nonpublic School Students and Instructional
Time and Act 80 Exceptions. All keyed to Purdon's (PA statutes), the
PA Code (PA regulations) or the US Code (Federal statutes) or the Code of
Federal Regulations.
Education
Law Center -- PA
Advocacy group's web site with news, useful
Q&A's, links and publications. English and Spanish versions.
They have just produced a new manual,
Special Education in a Nutshell.
New Jersey Department of Education
From
the school law decisions page, access current legal decisions of the Commissioner
of Education, the State Board of Education, the School Ethics Commission and
the State Board of Examiners. The decisions are in Adobe PDF format.
To
retrieve cases:
West’s Education Law Reporter (ELR)
Use the bound volumes to read education-related cases decided by the following
courts: U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts and
state appellate courts.
Fairchild-Martindale
Library FM-1-ANNEX 340.5 W538. Covers the years 1982 to present
-
Go to Legal Research Under CASE LAW, there are
several options:
Get a Case Contains opinions for both Federal and state courts; use citation to retrieve case.
Search by citation, such as 88 F 3rd 392 or by litigants (party names).
Federal Case Law Contains opinions from all Federal court levels
State Case Law Pennsylvania section includes opinions from Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Superior Court, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Philadelphia County Reporter
Area of Law by Topic
To search by topic in order of importance:
Pennsylvania school laws & rules annotated* Annual. The essential compilation of school law for Pennsylvania. It includes all titles of the PA Code that relate to schools with useful annotations linking current law with litigation. Includes a comprehensive index and a popular name table for statutes. See the User's Guide, especially the explanation of case notes: "Case notes and other annotations follow all sections of the School Code...Case notes are short statements of the main points of law established in judicial decisions and agency rulings." Case notes are not indexed. When the case notes for a particular section are numerous, the notes are arranged by subtopics in reverse chronological order. ...the full text of relevant court decisions should be read in full in the case reporter. Annotations are only a starting point in the process of complete case law research." Fairchild-Martindale Library FM-1-REFERENCE 340.9748 F819pa
*Also in Prof. Zirkel's office in Iacocca Hall
Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
Go to Area
of Law by Topic
From pull down menu choose Education Law (Federal
and State Cases)
Type in keyword(s)
Submit search
If results are too large, us the FOCUS feature
to add anther concept to the search statement
West’s Education Law Digest*
Multi-volume set has cases arranged by West’s
key system of legal subjects covering cases decided in the U.S. Supreme Court,
U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and State Appellate Courts.
Fairchild-Martindale
Library FM-1-ANNEX 340.5 W5381 "Pocket parts" (paper inserts in
back) up-date volumes
*Also in Prof. Zirkel's office in Iacocca
Hall
Yearbook of Education Law (Education Law Association) Annual overview of important cases; topical chapters on employees, bargaining, pupils, individuals with disabilities, torts, sports, higher education, and Federal and state legislation. Fairchild-Martindale Library FM-3-NORTH 379.14 Y39
Education Law--Recent Articles on education law topics. Click education law to initiate an saved search on a general periodicals database, Academic Index, limited to full-text online and peer reviewed sources
Trends and Issues: School Law Discussion of current legal controversies with reference lists and links. A resource provided by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
Deskbook Encyclopedia of American School
Law Handy, one volume compendium of illustrative and important cases.
Includes unique indexes, such as “...education cases decided by the Supreme
Court”
Fairchild-Martindale
Library FM-1-REFERENCE 344.7307 G631e
Browse School Law Reporter (Education
Law Association) Published monthly, the reporter features a commentary
and analysis about one important case along with short summaries of cases
arranged by subjects.
Unbound Current Journals (FM-2-SOUTH) by
title
Bound Fairchild-Martindale
Library FM-3-SOUTH 340.5 N277na
