Education and Law

Worlds of Autism Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini, Editors 2013 Fall

Amid controversies about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of autism, a timely collection of new and critical perspectives on how the disorder is understood and represented

Academic Profiling Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap Gilda L. Ochoa 2013 Fall

The achievement gap as it is actually experienced by Latino and Asian American students in one California high school

The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall

A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s

A Measure of Success The Influence of Curriculum-Based Measurement on Education Christine A. Espin, Kristen L. McMaster, Susan Rose and Miya Miura Wayman, Editors 2012 Fall

The past, present, and possible future of using progress monitoring to improve educational outcomes

Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring

Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution

Police in the Hallways Discipline in an Urban High School Kathleen Nolan 2011 Fall

Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students

Mothers United An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education Andrea Dyrness 2011 Spring

An intimate and inspiring account of immigrant Latina mothers fighting for better schools for their children

Organizing for Educational Justice The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx Michael B. Fabricant 2010 Spring

An in-depth account of community-based school reform that offers a powerful model for parents searching for ways to change public education

Prisons of Poverty Loïc Wacquant 2009 Spring

An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies “made in U.S.A.” as part of the spread of neoliberalism

Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance Raymond D. Austin 2009 Fall

The only book on the world’s largest tribal court system and Navajo common law

Open Your Eyes Deaf Studies Talking H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Editor 2007 Fall

A landmark work on the history, future, and implications of deaf studies

Establishing Justice in Middle America A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Jeffrey Brandon Morris 2007 Spring

An absorbing history of a court that helped to build a nation

Transgender Rights Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, Editors 2006 Fall

The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil rights movement

Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice Michael Hames-García 2004 Spring

Looks to the philosophy and experience of prisoners to reinvigorate our concepts of justice, solidarity, and freedom

Deathwork Defending the Condemned Michael Mello 2002 Fall

A gripping exposé of what lawyers face when they defend prisoners in capital cases.

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