Full Description
Reader-friendly, jargon-free guide to legal issues all college faculty need to know so that they can make teaching decisions within the bounds of the law.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Liability Risks for Professional Decisions: Starting with the Good News
2: Your Syllabus and Contract Law: Be Careful about Playing Lawyer in Your Course
3: Academic Freedom and the First Amendment's Protection of Faculty (and Student) Speech
4: Intellectual Property and Faculty and Students: Who Owns What?
5: Key Questions about FERPA: Does Anybody Understand This Stuff?
6: Faculty and Administrators in Defamation Cases
7: Employment Protection, Tenure Matters, and the Law
Index
Author Biography



