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Databases
FindLaw: Supreme Court Decisions
RAND Research Documents: Civil Justice
Social Sciences Citation Index
Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Journals
BU has digital access to approximately 35,000 current journals. Additionally, BU has
print subscriptions to about 10,000 journals.
To determine if we have a journal available electronically, search the
eJournal Locator. To find out if we have a print copy of a journal, search the Library's
Catalog. Both of these search tools may be found on the top page of the Library's
Website.
The best way to find journal articles on a particular topic or by a
particular author is to search appropriate databases. The primary
databases in Education are listed on, and accessible from, the Education
eResources Guide.Selected e-journals subscriptions in Educational Law:
School Law
Library Catalog Subject Headings:
Discrimination in Education -- Law and Legislation -- United States
Education and State -- United States
Educational Law and Legislation
Educational Law and Legislation -- United States
Students -- Legal Status, Laws, etc. -- United StatesSelected List of Titles
American Public School Law
Education Reference KF4119 .A758 2012Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality
Law Annex KF4155 .V35 2008Congress and the Classroom: From the Cold War to "No Child Left Behind"
Mugar LC89 .A78 2007Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts
Mugar LC213.2 .R427 2009Cross Purposes: Pierce V. Society of Sisters and the Struggle Over Compulsory Public Education
Law Annex KF228.S57 A27 2009Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken V. Bradley and the Controversy Over Desegregation
Law Annex KF228 .M55 B38 2011Education Law: An Overview (Cornell Law School)
Education Law: First Amendment, Due Process and Discrimination Litigation
Law Annex KF4118 .S36 2004 + current supplementsEducational Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues
Law Annex K3740 .E38 2006Encyclopedia of Education Law
Education Reference KF4117 .E53 2008Equal Educational Opportunity for All Children: A Research Guide to Discrimination in Education (1950-2005)
Law Annex KF241.E38 C65 2006FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus
Mugar KF4124.5 .S578 2005Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
Law Annex KF4155 .R93 2010From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy
Mugar LB3060.83 .V56 2009From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education
Law Annex KF4119 .F76 2009Immigration and Schools: Policy and the Law
Education KF4102 .N38 v.8 no. 3 spring 2008Jimmy Carter as Educational Policymaker: Equal Opportunity and Efficiency
Mugar LC213.2 .M53 2008Knowledge in the Making: Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
Law Annex KF4124.5 .D45 2010Law and Education: Contemporary Issues and Court Decisions
Law Annex KF4119 .V238 2008Law of Schools, Students, and Teachers in a Nutshell
Law Reserve KF4119.3 .A43 2009A Learning-Centered Framework for Education Reform: What Does it Mean for National Policy?
Mugar LA217.2 .D425 2010Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
Mugar LB1028.3 .M625 2009Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools
Mugar LB2822.82 .K69 2010Mendez V. Westminster : School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights
Law Annex KF4155 .S77 2010No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools
Mugar LB2806.22 .A18 2007No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap: Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy
Mugar LC191.4 .N6 2008Politics, Ideology and Education: Federal Policy during the Clinton and Bush Administrations
Mugar LC89 .D43 2006Practical Education Law for the Twenty-First Century
Law Annex KF4119 .D63 2010Public School Law: Teachers' and Students' Rights
Law Annex KF4119 .T46 2009Race and Education, 1954-2007
Law Annex KF4155 .W645 2008School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy
Mugar LB2831 .M235 2010School Law in Massachusetts
Law Reserve KFM2790 .S36 2003 + current supplementsSchool Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy
Law Annex KF4155 .S36 2007School Officials and the Courts: Update
Mugar KF4114 .S37 (1981+)School's In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda
Mugar LC89 .M223 2006Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools
Law Annex KF4124.5 .D87 2009Teachers and the Law
Law Annex KF4175.Z9 F57 2007Universal Preschool: Policy Change, Stability and the Pew Charitable Trusts
Mugar LB1140.23 .B87 2009What Every Teacher Should Know About IDEA 2004 Laws and Regulations
Education LC4704 .M36 2007What's Ahead in Education? : An Analysis of the Policies of the Obama Administration
Mugar LC89 .H395 2010With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown V. Board of Education
Law Annex KF4155 .W58 2008With More Deliberate Speed: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Education: Realizing the Full Potential of Brown v. Board of Education
Mugar LB5 .E95 2006 pt.2Yearbook of Education Law
Education Reference KF4102.5 .Y4 (2000+)
Non-Public School Law
Library Catalog Subject Headings:
Home Schooling -- United States
Home Schooling -- Law and Legislation -- United States
Private Schools -- Law and Legislation -- United StatesSelected List of Titles
Cross Purposes: Pierce V. Society of Sisters and the Struggle Over Compulsory Public Education
Law Annex KF228.S57 A27 2009Homeschool: An American History
Mugar LC40 .G34 2008Homeschool Legal Defense Association
Home Schooling Laws and Resource Guide for all Fifty States
Education Reference KF4221 .D43 1998Homeschooling Your Gifted Child: Language Arts for the Middle School Years
Education LC3993.27 .B73 2002Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement
Education LC40 .S74 2001Law of Special Education and Non-Public Schools: Major Challenges in Meeting the Needs of Youth
Law Annex KF4220 .L39 2009Legal Aspects of Nonpublic Schools: A Casebook
Education KF4220.A7 F87 1993Private Schools and Public Power: A Case for Pluralism
Mugar LC49 .R36 1994Right to Home School: A Guide to the Law on Parent's Rights in Education
Law Annex KF4221 .K55 2002
Parent Child Rights
Library Catalog Subject Headings:
Parent and Child (Law)
Parent and Child (Law) -- United StatesSelected List of Titles
The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations
Law Annex KF47 .G679 2007Children and the Law: The Competing Rights, Privileges, and Interest of Children, Parents, and the State: A Reader
Law Annex KF479 .B64 2010Children and the Law in a Nutshell
Law Reserve KF479 .R36 2008Children's Rights Under the Law
Law Annex KF479 .D375 2011Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: From Basic to Complex Issues
Mugar HV741 .S727 2011Family Values and Family Justice
Law Annex KD750 .A75 F74 2010Legal Rights of Children
Law Annex KF479 .L444 2010The Relationship Rights of Children
Law Annex KF540 .D89 2006Responsibility, Law and the Family
Law Annex KD772 .R47 2008Rights, Gender, and Family Law
Law Annex K670 .R54 2010Taking Responsibility, Law and the Changing Family
Law Annex KD772 .T35 2010The Voice of a Child in Family Law Disputes
Law Annex K705 .P37 2008What is Right for Children? : The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights
Law Annex KF4783 .W43 2009What's Wrong with Children's Rights?
Mugar HQ789 .G78 2005
Religious Rights
Library Catalog Subject Headings:
Church and State -- United States
Religion and State -- United States
Religion in the Public Schools -- United States
Religion in the Public Schools -- Law and Legislation -- United StatesSelected List of Titles
Church, State and Original Intent
Law Annex KF4865 .D728 2010Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism
Law Annex KF4865 .L43 2011Constitutional Law: The Religion Clauses
Law Reserve KF4783 .C657 2009Darwinism in the Classroom: Critiquing Orthodoxy and Surviving the Current Environment
Law Annex KF4162 .D34 2006The Dissenting Tradition in American Education
Mugar LC111 .C27 2007Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Mugar LC111 .G68 2005Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition & Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer
Law Annex KF228.A25 S65 2007God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law
Law Annex KF9434 .H36 2005God's Economy: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State
Mugar HV530 .D35 2009Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools
Mugar LC111 .K86 2006The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square
Law Annex BR516 .V58 2007Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda
Law Annex KF4208.5 .S34 R38 2011Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit: Provocative First Amendment Conflicts
Law Annex KF6449 .C75 2011Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States
Education Reserve LC111 .P78 2009Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment
Law Annex KF4783 .W58 2011Religion Clauses of the First Amendment: Guarantees of States' Rights?
Law Annex KF4783 .W38 2011Religious Charter Schools: Legalities and Practicalities
Law Annex KF4162 .W45 2007Religious Left and Church-State Relations
Law Annex KF4783 .S55 2009Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding
Law Reference BR516 .S23 2009Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey
Mugar BL65.S8 K87 2009Taking on the Pledge of Allegiance: The News Media and Michael Newdow's Constitutional Challenge
Law Annex KF228.N493 B57 2007Wrestling with God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion
Law Annex KF4783 .G37 2006
Juvenile Law
Library Catalog Subject Headings:
Juvenile Justice, Administration of
Juvenile Justice, Administration of -- United StatesSelected List of Titles
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Children's Rights Under the Law
Law Annex KF479 .D375 2011Cycle of Juvenile Justice
Mugar HV9065 .B47 2010Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts
Mugar HV9104 .K87 2006Justice for Girls? : Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada
Mugar HV9104 .S676 2009Juvenile Justice
Mugar HV9104 .F53 2007Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell
Law Reserve KF9780 .F45 2009Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice
Mugar HV9069 .S64 2011Locked Up, Locked Out: Young Men in the Juvenile Justice System
Mugar HV9104 .N873 2010Manual for the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators
Law Annex K5575 .M36 2007Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services: Department of Youth Services
Massachusetts Juvenile Court Bench Book
Law Criminal Clinic KFM2996 .M37 2011National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Juvenile Justice
Rethinking Juvenile Justice
Law Annex KF9779 .S26 2008School Crime and Juvenile Justice
Mugar LB3013.3 .L38 2007Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Understanding Juvenile Law
Law Reserve KF9780 .G368 2009Who Gets a Childhood? : Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas
Mugar Library HV9105 .T4 B87 2010
Federal Acts
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1998
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Better Education for Students and Teachers Act 2001
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Organizations
International Dyslexia Association
National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Learning Disabilities
National Council on Disability
National Resource Center for Safe Schools
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center