Finding Educational Law Information

An Overview: The Information Revolution is slowly catching up to the government and much information is beginning to come online in free, searchable databases. I have no doubt that by the time I retire, every document published by the government will be online and searchable for free. Problem is, not everything is there yet and the corporate information brokers, Thomson Reuters (Westlaw), Reed Elsevier (LexisNexis), Wolters-Kluwer (Loislaw), etc., still have exclusive control over large swaths of the legal information landscape. For instance, there is no way for me to allow you to search and access law reviews. They are held under exclusive copyright agreements.

 

What I can do is provide links and custom searches to what IS available online,for free and I can help train you to become good researchers using these sources. You can click the link of the video on the right to get a 5 min. tutorial on finding free ed. law information. The good news is that unless you are a lawyer, this might be good enough. The bad news is that I cannot and do not provide 100% coverage. In using free sites you must realize and accept that you will be missing resources. For instance, if there is a state appellate court case directly on point, I can't find that for you ... Westlaw can.

Anyway, with all that said, for many folks who just want to get an idea on an educational law topic, such as educational leadership students, the sites below will work just fine.

Case Search

 

 

Educational Law Blog Search Engine

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Outside Resources

Major Sites for Ed. Law Information

NSBA School Law -http://www.nsba.org/schoollaw
Findlaw -http://www.findlaw.com/
Legal Information Institute -http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Oyez (On the Docket/Supreme Court) -http://www.oyez.org/

 

Free Primary Source Search Engines

 

PreCYdent - http://www.precydent.com/

AltLaw - http://altlaw.org/
Public.Resource - http://public.resource.org/
Justia - http://www.justia.com/
Public Library of Law - http://www.plol.org/

Blogs

 

Justia Education Law Blog Directory -http://blawgsearch.justia.com/category.aspx?catid=1889

ABA Blawg Directory -http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/education+law

Search of Education Blogs: http://www.edjurist.com/find-ed-law-info/

 

Ed. LawBlogs

School LawBlog -http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/

The Edjurist -http://www.edjurist.com/

Adjunct LawProf -http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/

ABA Journal -http://www.abajournal.com/topics/education+law

Sch. & Ed. LawBlog -http://schoolandeducationlaw.blogspot.com/

 

Spec. Ed. LawBlogs

FapePage -http://fapepage.blogspot.com/

Spec. Ed. LawBlog -http://specialedlaw.blogs.com/

Special Ed. LawBlog -http://specialeducationlawblog.blogspot.com/

WrightslawWay -http://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/

Dev. in Spec. Ed.Law -http://jeffmarcus-specialedlaw.blogspot.com/

State Ed. LawBlogs

Conn. Ed. LawBlog -http://www.connecticuteducationlawblog.com/

Sch. & Ed. Law Blog(NY) -http://schoolandeducationlaw.blogspot.com/

NJ Ed. LawBlog -http://www.jerseyeducationlaw.com/

Educ. Law(Penn) -http://educationlaw.foxrothschild.com/

Texas TeacherLaw -http://teacherlaw.blogspot.com/

L. Dig. Law Dawg(TX) -http://ldlawdawg.blogspot.com/

RelatedBlogs

EducationalInsanity -http://edinsanity.com/

BoardBuzz -http://boardbuzz.nsba.org/

Title IXBlog -http://title-ix.blogspot.com/

ReligionClause -http://religionclause.blogspot.com/

CRP IntegrationReport -http://theintegrationreport.wordpress.com/

Public Sector L.Blog -http://publicsectorlaw.wordpress.com/

 

Online Education Law Journals

 

Education Law and Policy Forum -http://www.educationlawconsortium.org/forum/index.htm

 

 

Governmental Sites

elaws (employment laws, dept. of labor) -http://www.dol.gov/elaws/
Thomas (Library of Congress) -http://thomas.loc.gov/

Policy Organizations/Colleges

University of Houston Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance -http://www.law.uh.edu/ihelg/

Access Quality Education -http://www.schoolfunding.info
Washlaw -http://washlaw.edu/

Professional Organizations

Education Law Association -http://www.educationlaw.org/

NSBA Council of School Attorneys -www.nsba.org/cosa

National Association of College and University Attorneys -http://www.nacua.org/

The Association for the Study of Higher Education -http://www.ashe.ws/

University Council for Educational Administration -http://www.ucea.org/

National Council of Professors of Educational Administration -https://www4.nau.edu/cee/orgs/ncpea/

American Association of Law Schools -http://www.aals.org/

Society for Human Resource Management -http://www.shrm.org
Law and Society Association -http://www.lawandsociety.org/

Non-US Based

Her Majesty's Stationary Office/Office of Public Information (United Kingdom) -http://www.opsi.gov.uk/
Australian Legal Information Institute -http://www.austlii.edu.au/
British & Irish Legal Information Institute -http://www.bailii.org/