Legal Resources

Education Rights Center

at Howard University School of Law

A Research Center Promoting Educational Equity for All Students

Legal Resources

Introduction

Various legal principles apply to each area of inequality that the Education Rights Center studies. A detailed analysis of each is forthcoming. Preliminary materials are posted below.

Legal Articles, Briefs, and Summaries

Educational Benefits of Diversity
- New Compelling Government Interest: Improving Educational Outcomes, 80 N.C. L. Rev. 923 (2001).
Desegregation
- Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law, Brief of Amicus Curiae, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, Supreme Court Nos. 05-908 and 05-915 (2007).
- The Uncertainties of School Desegregation: Good Will, Good Sense, and A Misguided Decision, Cath. L. Rev. (2008).

Discipline
- Basic Legal Principles
Causes of Action for Discrimination
- The Mysteriously Reappearing Cause of Action: The Court’s Expanding Concept of Intentional Discrimination in Gender and Race Discrimination Statutes, 67 Maryland L. Rev. 101 (2008).
Special Education
- Rules and Procedures