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The information on this site does not constitute legal advice and is for educational purposes only. If you have a dispute or legal problem, please consult an attorney licensed to practice law in your state. Additionally, the information and views presented on this blog are solely the responsibility of Justin Bathon personally, or the other contributors, personally, and do not represent the views of the University of Kentucky or the institutional employer of any of the contributing editors.

For educators and their attorneys to have the requisite information and knowledge, there is a need to define a new class of educators and a new class of lawyers, each attuned to the contextual reality of the other's discipline.  Such a new class will establish law-informed educators and leaders who can act preventively to avoid or minimize legal entanglements and proactively to influence both litigation strategy and government policy. Such a class will also establish education-informed lawyers, apprised of both school practices and important educational research and policies, who can work collaboratively and preventively with their clients.

Sarah Redfield, The Convergence of Education and Law:
A New Class of Educators and Lawyers, 36 Ind. L. Rev. 609 (2003).


About this Blog

The Edjurists are a collaboration of Professor-Bloggers who mostly teach education law in law schools and education schools. Blogging across the spectrum of educational law issues, the purpose of The Edjurists is to serve educational and legal practitioners as a resource for information and current events concerning laws and policies in our nation's K-12 schools. It is also a place to foster debate and growth in the educational law scholarly community. Feel free to browse around and comment, but if you are looking for specific information you will find archived information on educational law topics using the categories listing (under Blog tab) as well as the search feature. You can subscribe to the Edjurist by clicking on one of the subscription options in the sidebar or on the RSS icon in the URL bar. From all of us, thanks for visiting. 

 

History of the Blog

Justin Bathon began blogging in law school after taking a course on legal research technology and observing that there were no blogs on educational law (of course there were none, it was 2004). I would show you my first attempt, but the Internet Archive can't even find it. From 2004 to 2006 the blog had ups and downs, but the turning point came in 2006 when I relaunched it under a new name (The Edjurist Accord - see below for nomenclature). I also bought the domain names (I use GoDaddy) and paid for a real blogging service (I host and blog with Squarespace). Having invested money in this project, I was now willing to invest more time. After a few months The Edjurist caught the attention of super-blogger Scott McLeod and The Edjurist was admitted to the CASTLE blogging family (see below for more). The Edjurist took the place of At the Schoolhouse Gate, which was a collaborative education law blogging effort that failed to gain momentum. CASTLE assisted in the redesign that you see today and I dropped the "Accord" part. The new logo was an apple sitting on a book tilting away from you. During this time, The Edjurist rose in prominence to one of the more recognizable educational law voices on the Internet. When Justin went to work at the University of Kentucky in 2008, other voices from UK started to participate. First, Scott Bauries and later Neal Hutchens in 2009. Collectively, in the Spring of 2010, we decided to invite other education law professors from around the United States and that brings us to the blog in it's current iteration. In 2011, Neal Hutchens spun off a sister project to the Edjurist at HigherEdLaw.org. In 2013, the Education Law Association became a formal partner and assists in distribution of the blog's content to its members. Over the years, there has been a lot written here, at least several dissertations worth of text. The Edjurists continues to push to provide great free information on educational law and to serve as a resource for the scholarly community. Hope you find it useful too. 

 

Why Edjurists?

Unsatisfied with the terminology surrounding educational law scholars/practitioners, in 2006, with my friend Dr. Jesulon Gibbs, we created the term Edjurist to refer to the larger group of people interested in educational law. (Ed - as in education; Jurist - as in law.) This group could include lawyers, Ph.D.'s, parent advocates, policymakers, school personnel ... basically the only qualification is a professional and committed interest in areas related to educational law. In fact, if you are reading my blog, chances are that you are an Edjurist yourself. In 2013 with a redesign and the additional of several additional contributors to the blog, we just made it plural to the Edjurists. Whether or not our linguistic creation is ever included in the OED, the term was a good reference point for the work we do here at this website and thus The Edjurist was born.

 

About CASTLE

This blog is published in cooperation with the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education. CASTLE is the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. In addition to its highly-acclaimed School Technology Leadership graduate program, it also helps other university educational leadership programs prepare technology-savvy school leaders and provides numerous resources for K-12 administrators and the faculty that prepare them. CASTLE is housed at the University of Kentucky.