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Resources for Education Law Pathway

Government

Bar Associations

Education Law Association.
Boston Bar Association Section of College & University Law.
National Association of College & University Attorneys.

Internships & Fellowships

Education Law Center of Pennsylvania.

Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity.

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.

Law School Centers & Institutes

New England Law | Boston – Center for Law & Social Responsibility – Education Law Project.

University of Houston | Law Center – Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance.

Rutgers Law School – Newark. Institute on Education Law and Policy.

Loyola University Chicago- Civitas ChildLaw Center.

Howard University. Education Rights Center.

Writing Competitions

George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award. Education Law Association.

Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. American Constitution Society.

2012 Law Student Essay Competition. National Association of Counsel for Children. 

Careers

National School Boards Association. Careers in School Law.

Public Service

Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts.

Jobs for the Future: education for economic opportunity.

Center for Law & Education (Boston & Washington).

Massachusetts Advocates for Children.

Children’s Defense Fund.

The Rennie Center for Education Research and Advocacy.

The Disability Law Center of Massachusetts.

The Federation for Children with Special Needs.

Greater Boston Legal Services.

Greater Boston Legal Services. Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Impact Advocacy. 

Books

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools (Crown 1991).

Patrick J McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 (Univ. Press Kansas 2006).

Susan E. Eaton, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007).

Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (Legal Classics Library 1994).

Research Guide

Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries. Research Guide on Special Education Law.

Continuing Legal Education

Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Annual School Law Conference 2011. For Prior and future years, check our library catalog Portia.

Blogs

The Edjurist.

 Special Education Blog.

School Law Blog.