Student affairs personnel must both ensure the safety and basic civil rights of students and also find ways to expose students to the consequences of their actions and speech. These obligations involve tensions between students' rights to free speech and their rights to equal protection under the Constitution, thus to education free from…

This report, prepared pursuant to Public Law 98-183 (Child Abuse Amendments of 1984), examines the nature and extent of the practice of withholding medical treatment or nourishment from infants born with disabilities and makes recommendations to remedy deficiencies in existing law. Evidence suggests that decisions to withhold medically indicated…

Business partnership with public schools, while holding great promise for educational improvement, is hindered by legal questions about equity. Disagreement on how to apply this value to education has produced much litigation over school finance. Some allege that property tax financing violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth…

This paper considers Indian affirmative action policies that provide reservations (quotas) in favor of two disadvantaged groups, the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes. First, definitions and background are presented. The scheduled castes ("untouchables") are said to suffer from social segregation, and the scheduled tribes from…

The Model Children's Code was developed to provide a legally correct model code that American Indian tribes can use to enact children's codes that fulfill their legal, cultural and economic needs. Code sections cover the court system, jurisdiction, juvenile offender procedures, minor-in-need-of-care, and termination. Almost every Code section is…

The status of judicial theory regarding private responsibility for granting procedural due process, and the extent to which policies in New England's private postsecondary institutions adhered to judicial requirements for due process in nontenured faculty terminations were studied. A review of the literature, research methodology, and definition…

Defining reverse discrimination as hiring or admissions decisions based on normally irrelevant criteria, this book develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity applicable to the reverse discrimination issue. The introduction defines the issue and discusses deductive and inductive methodology as applied to reverse…

Papers are presented that were prepared as part of a study group of the International Council for Educational Development on criteria and procedures for admission to higher education and the relationship between higher education and the law. In "Access to Higher Education and the Law," Larry G. Simon analyzes the role of law and especially the…

This publication summarizes the activities during 1971 of the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women in achieving its goal to suggest, arouse public awareness and understanding, and stimulate action with private and public institutions, organization, and individuals working toward improving conditions of special concern to women. Areas…

Discussing Indian education in public schools, the paper explains that the new Johnson O'Malley (JOM) regulations will be one of the first major tests of the new Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) administration's resolve to put the interests of the American Indian people first. The first section presents discussions on: Tuition Payments and JOM; JOM…

This publication includes lesson plans designed to help students and teachers explore students' rights and their corresponding responsibilities to others in the school and the community. Objectives are to demonstrate that an interrelationship exists between rights and responsibilities, that the freedom of expression inherent in the Student Bill of…

In this report, the author indicates how the Texas school finance system works to the detriment of those districts in which Mexican American students are concentrated. Data for the report were taken from the Civil Rights Commission's 1969 survey of education for Mexican Americans in the southwest and the Department of Health Education and…

This paper describes the process used to determine if a Thai individual, of a limited English speaking background, seemed to have enough proficiency in English to understand the "Miranda Rights," designed to inform him of his rights to an attorney. These Rights should be simplified for limited English speakers. (CFM)

Briefly examines the history and current medical knowledge of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Describes general requirements of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EACHA) and how they are applied to the AIDS situation. Suggests that admission of AIDS students to schools be allowed on a case-by-case basis. (IW)

This book contains the following 14 articles on the effects of law on women in the United States: "Protection of Women Workers and the Courts: A Legal Case History" (Ann Corinne Hill); "Sexual Harassment and Race: A Legal Analysis of Discrimination" (Judy Trent Ellis); "Comparable Worth: Is This a Theory for Black Workers?" (Judy Scales-Trent);…