Featured Cases

• Northeastern University et al v. Google, Inc.,

  2:2007cv00486
  Filed in Texas Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Patent
  Plaintiff: Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University and others... Defendant: Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,
  Judge: T. John Ward
  Cause Of Action: Patent Infringement
  (March 17, 2011)

• LoudCloud Systems, Inc. v. Sridhar et al

  6:2010cv00556
  Filed in Texas Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Copyrights
  Plaintiff: LoudCloud Systems, Inc. Defendant: Mythili Sridhar and Sridhar Iyer.
  Cause Of Action: Copyright Infringement
  (October 20, 2010)

• CARRINGTON et al v. DUKE UNIVERSITY et al

  1:2008cv00119
  Filed in North Carolina Middle District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Civil Rights
  Plaintiff: EDWARD CARRINGTON, CASEY J. CARROLL, MICHAEL P. CATALINO, GALE CATALINO, THOMAS V. CLUTE and others...; Defendant: DUKE UNIVERSITY, DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., RICHARD BRODHEAD, PETER LANGE, LARRY MONETA and others...
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (October 14, 2010)

• Fialka-Feldman v. Oakland University Board of Trustees

  2:2008cv14922
  Filed in Michigan Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Housing/Accommodations
  Plaintiff: Micah Fialka-Feldman Defendant: Oakland University Board of Trustees
  Cause Of Action: Fair Housing Act
  (September 6, 2010)

• Jarry v. Southington Bd of Ed et al

  3:2008cv00954
  Filed in Connecticut District Court
  Type of Suit: Employment
  Plaintiff: Marie Jarry; Defendant: Southington Bd of Ed, Southington Ed Assn, Joseph V. Erardi, Jr.
  Judge: Warren W. Eginton
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (July 7, 2010)

Legislation

• Bill Introduced: S.2095 Expanding Training Opportunities Act of 2012

  A bill to ensure that individuals who are in an authorized job training program or completing work for a degree or certificate remain eligible for regular unemployment compensation.
  (February 7, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: S.Res.371 A resolution designating the week of February 6 through 10, 2012, as ...

  A resolution designating the week of February 6 through 10, 2012, as "National School Counseling Week".
  (February 7, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3978 Equal Access to Support Youth Voting Act

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the dissemination of false information for the purpose of discouraging a student of an institution of higher education from registering to vote or voting in an election for Federal office, to require States which require individuals to present a photo identification as a condition of voting in elections for Federal office to accept a photo identification presented by a student which is issued by the school the student attends, and for other purposes.
  (February 6, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3915 To consolidate programs at the Department of Justice and enact the ...

  To consolidate programs at the Department of Justice and enact the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2011.
  (February 5, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: S.2070 NGEAR Act

  A bill to promote the domestic development and deployment of natural gas and clean energy technologies.
  (February 4, 2012)

Regulations

• Rule - Program Integrity: Gainful Employment; Debt Measures

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Program Integrity:
  Gainful Employment; Debt Measures
  ,
  34386-34539 [2011-13905]
  Vol. 76 Monday, No. 113 June 13, 2011 Part III Department of Education 34 CFR Part 668 Program Integrity: Gainful Employment--Debt Measures; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 76 , No. 113 / Monday, June 13, 2011 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 668 RIN 1840-AD06 [Docket ID ED-2010-OPE-0012] Program Integrity: Gainful Employment--Debt Measures AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations. SUMMARY: The Secretary amends... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 12, 2011)

• Rule - Investing in Innovation Fund

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Investing in Innovation Fund
  ,
  32073-32081 [2011-13589]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Chapter II [Docket ID ED-2011-OII-0001] Investing in Innovation Fund AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education. ACTION: Final revisions to priorities, requirements, and selection criteria. SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement amends the final priorities, requirements, and selection criteria under the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) program as established in the notice of final priorities,... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 2, 2011)

• Rule - Impact Aid Programs: Corrections

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Impact Aid Programs:
  Corrections
  ,
  31855-31856 [2011-13590]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 222 RIN 1810-AB11 Impact Aid Programs; Corrections AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations; correction. SUMMARY: The Department of Education published final regulations in the Federal Register on April 28, 2011 (76 FR 23712) to amend the regulations governing the Impact Aid Discretionary Construction program, authorized under section 8007(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 1, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings

  Department of Education
  Proposed Rule
  Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings
  ,
  25650-25652 [2011-10909]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Chapter VI [Docket ID ED-2011-OPE-0003] Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Intent to establish negotiated rulemaking committees. SUMMARY: We announce our intention to establish one or more negotiated rulemaking committees to propose regulations under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). The committees will include representatives of organizations or groups... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (May 4, 2011)

• Rule - Impact Aid Programs

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Impact Aid Programs
  ,
  23712-23713 [2011-10239]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 222 RIN 1810-AA94 Impact Aid Programs AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations. SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education amends the regulations governing the Impact Aid Discretionary Construction program, authorized under section 8007(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. This program provides competitive grants for emergency repairs and modernization of school... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (April 27, 2011)

Articles

• University Funding Systems: Impact on Research and Teaching

  Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 6, 2012-2 John A. Beath , Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and David Ulph University of St. Andrews , La Trobe University - Department of Economics and Finance and University College London - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 17, 2012 Accepted Paper Series Antecedentes Familiares Y Rendimiento Académico En Los Colegios Oficiales De Cartagena (Family Background and Academic Performance in Cartagena Public Schools) Economia & Region, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 43, December 2011 Bernardo Elías Saray Ricardo , Jhorland Ayala García and Shirly Marrugo Llorente affiliation not provided to SSRN , affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 17, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Early Childhood Development Workforce Productivity Commission Government of Australia Date Posted: February 17, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Skills and Competencies for Knowmadic Workers KNOWMAD SOCIETY, J. W. Moravec, ed., Education Futures, Forthcoming Cristobal Cobo University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute Date Posted: February 17, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 9 downloads Vocational Education and Training Workforce Productivity Commission Government of Australia Date Posted: February 17, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads 2D:4D Asymmetry and Academic Perfomance: Evidence from Moscow and Manila Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 02/EDU/2012 Greg V. Androushchak , Maria Yudkevich , John V. Nye , Desiree Desierto and Garett Jones National Research University Higher School of Economics , National Research University Higher School of Economics , George Mason University - Department of Economics , University of the Philippines, Diliman - School of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 16, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Financial Education on Secondary School Students: The Randomized Experiment Revisited EconomEtica Working Papers Leonardo Becchetti and Fabio Pisani University of Rome II - Faculty of Economics and University of Rome II Date Posted: February 16, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Estimating the Return to College in Britain Using Regression and Propensity Score Matching LABOUR, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 31-45, 2012 Wen Fan affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 15, 2012 Accepted Paper Series The Access of the Young Graduates in Sciences into R&D Profession: A Switching Model Treatment for the French Case LABOUR, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 46-65, 2012 Claire Bonnard affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 15, 2012 Accepted Paper Series Law Review Circulation 2011: More Change, More Same Journal of Law, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 179-188, 2012, Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 1, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-15 Ross E. Davies George Mason University School of Law Date Posted: February 15, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 11 downloads Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions Sonia R. Bhalotra and Thomas Pogge University of Bristol and Yale MacMillan Center Date Posted: February 14, 2012 Working Paper Series 14 downloads Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 825 Michela Braga , Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari University of Milan - DEAS , Bank of Italy - Trento Branch and Bocconi University - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) Date Posted: February 14, 2012 Working Paper Series 8 downloads The Effect of Childhood Education on Old Age Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design IFS Working Paper 04/11 Fabrizio Mazzonna and James W. Banks Munich Center for the Economics of Ageing (MEA) and Institute for Fiscal Studies Date Posted: February 14, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads The Long-Lasting Effects of Family Background: A European Cross-Country Comparison MEA Discussion Paper No. 245-11 Fabrizio Mazzonna Munich Center for the Economics of Ageing (MEA) Date Posted: February 14, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads University Admission in Russia: Do Richer Benefit from the Standardized Exams? Ilya Prakhov and Maria Yudkevich National Research University Higher School of Economics and National Research University Higher School of Economics Date Posted: February 14, 2012 Last Revised: February 16, 2012
  (February 15, 2012)

• Online, Distance Legal Education as an Agent of Social Change

  Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, Vol. 24, pp. 95, 2011, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 02/12 Michael L. Perlin New York Law School Date Posted: February 11, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads The Need for Legal Reform of the For-Profit Educational Industry Tennessee Law Review, Forthcoming Amanda Harmon Cooley South Texas College of Law Date Posted: February 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 6 downloads The New Romanian Legal Framework for Minorities’ Education Performance and Innovation in Education International Symposium, October 2011 Gabriela Zanfir and Dragos Alexandru Efrim University of Craiova - Faculty of Law and University of Craiova - Faculty of Law Date Posted: February 07, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Education for Americans with Disabilities: Reconciling Idea with the 2008 ADA Amendments Northern Kentucky Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2010 Kathryn Smith and Richard A. Bales Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law and Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Last Revised: February 15, 2012
  (February 14, 2012)

• An Analysis of Effectiveness on the University’s Internship Programs in Indonesia: A Case ...

  Metropolitan Universities Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 121-130, November 2011 Date Posted: February 13, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Medium of Instruction Policies and Human Capital Formation: Theory and Evidence from Africa Rajesh Ramachandran Autonomous University of Barcelona Date Posted: February 13, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004 IZA Discussion Paper No. 6329 Mohammad Niaz Asadullah , Uma S. Kambhampati and Florencia López Bóo University of Reading - Department of Economics , University of Reading - Department of Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Date Posted: February 12, 2012 Working Paper Series Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start IZA Discussion Paper No. 6315 Pedro Manuel Carneiro and Rita Ginja University College London - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 12, 2012 Working Paper Series Aligning Collective Consciousness with the Lives of Educated Youth Through Academic Actions Arup Barman Assam University - Department of Business Administration Date Posted: February 12, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads New Evidence on Class Size Effects: A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, Issue 2, pp. 203-234, 2012 Nadir Altinok and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Oxford - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series School Attendance, Child Labor and Cash Transfers: An Impact Evaluation of Panes PEP PIERI Working Paper No. 2011-22 Veronica Amarante , Mery Ferrando and Andrea Vigorito affiliation not provided to SSRN , Instituto de Economía, Uruguay and Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay) - Instituto de Economia - Facultad de Ciencias Economicas Date Posted: February 10, 2012 Working Paper Series The Need for Legal Reform of the For-Profit Educational Industry Tennessee Law Review, Forthcoming Amanda Harmon Cooley South Texas College of Law Date Posted: February 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 6 downloads Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2011 Journal of Law, Vol. 2, (Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 1), No. 1, pp. 25-52, 2012 , Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-012 Roger V. Skalbeck Georgetown University Law Center Date Posted: February 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 90 downloads Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection RISK, SHOCK, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: ON THE BRINK, . Fuentes and P. Seck eds., Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2010 Namsuk Kim United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Date Posted: February 09, 2012 Working Paper Series The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality Adam Stevenson University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 08, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads Student Loans and Early Post-Graduation Earnings: Evidence from Decomposition Analysis Serguey Braguinsky and Atsushi Ohyama Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration Date Posted: February 07, 2012 Working Paper Series 5 downloads Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Non-Trivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism Sarah Brockhoff , Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks University of Freiburg (Germany) - College of Economics and Behavioral Sciences , University of Paderborn and University of Paderborn - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 3 downloads ICT Efforts in Education: Ensuring and Maintaining Quality Avneesh Kumar Department of Commerce Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 4 downloads Management of Socially Relevant Quality of Higher Education: Do Indian Institutions Care it? Arup Barman Assam University - Department of Business Administration Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads FOCJ as Model for Financing the Estonian General Education Discussions on Estonian Economic Policy No. 2/2011 Peter Friedrich and Janno Reiljan University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Date Posted: February 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Foot Voting, Political Ignorance, and Constitutional Design Social Philosophy and Policy (Symposium on "What Constitutions Do?), Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 202-227, Winter 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-11 Ilya Somin George Mason University School of Law Date Posted: February 05, 2012 Last Revised: February 13, 2012
  (February 12, 2012)

• Predatory Ed: The Conflict between Public Good and For-Profit Higher Education

  Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 47, 2011, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-01 Osamudia R. James University of Miami School of Law Date Posted: January 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 13 downloads The Other Achievement Gap: Court-Dependent Youth and Education Law Journal of Law & Education, Vol. 21, 2012 Caroline Van Zile and Jesse Hahnel Yale Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 08, 2012 Last Revised: January 28, 2012
  (January 27, 2012)

• A Paradigm of First Amendment Dilemmas: Resolving Public School Library Censorship Disputes

  Western New England Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 1, 1981 Leora Harpaz Western New England University School of Law Date Posted: December 21, 2011 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Disabled Education: A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 163 Ruth Colker Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law Date Posted: December 19, 2011 Working Paper Series 40 downloads Equality Beyond the Three-Part Test: Exploring and Explaining the Invisibility of Title IX’s Equal Treatment Requirement Marquette Sports Law Review, Forthcoming, Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-1 Erin Buzuvis and Kristine E. Newhall Western New England University School of Law and University of Iowa Date Posted: December 19, 2011 Last Revised: January 11, 2012
  (January 10, 2012)

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