SEM-6025: Seminar: Education Law

This course will provide a general overview to key legal issues in public and private education. The course will focus on understanding Minnesota and federal constitutions, statutes, case law, and policies. Key legal concepts include: history of public schools and the legal systems; governance and finance of public schools; church and state; free speech; desegregation; search and seizure; students with disabilities; compulsory attendance and student rights in statutes, common law and the constitutions; teacher rights in statutes, common law and constitutions; and school liability. Particular emphasis will be placed on core legal concepts and practice skills. Students may take this course for 2 or 3 credits. Students planning to satisfy the long paper requirement in this course, and students who have already satisfied the long paper requirement and plan to write another long paper in this course, should register for three credits. Blended courses open to all J.D. students PreReq: LAW- 1005 & LAW- 2005