The Educational Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues

Education law has emerged as an important concern to educators in many countries around the world. While there are similarities in the range of rights that students in various countries have, there are also many differences. The Educational Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues provides a comprehensive examination on the status of the legal rights of students in 13 international communities.

Written by leading experts in the field of education law in their respective nations, The Educational Rights of Students will serve as both a great reference and textbook.

Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed. D., is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Allied Professions and adjunct professor in the School of Law at the University of Dayton. The 1998-1999 president of the Education Law Association and 2002 recipient of its McGhehey (Achievement) Award, he has in excess of five hundred publications. He speaks extensively on issues in education law in the United States and overseas.

Douglas Stewart, Ph.D., has been president of the Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association and was the founding editor of the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education. He has published widely in both professional and academic journals, is the co-author of Schools, Courts and the Law: Managing Student Welfare and has authored or coauthored chapters in a number of books in Australia and elsewhere.

Jan De Groof is founder and chairman of both the European Association for Education Law and Policy and of the Interuniversity Centre for Education Law. He is also a cofounder of the Russian and the South African Associations for Education Law and Policy. One of the leading education law specialists worldwide, he helped organize and chaired the First World Conference on the Right to Education, in Amsterdam, The Hague, 2004. De Groof is professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the University of Tilburg, Netherlands.