This book provides a user-friendly guide to constitutional law in the context of public colleges and universities that is easily accessible to students, faculty members, and administrators. While this book will be helpful to lawyers, our primary audience is the educated layperson. Each of the books chapters discusses the basic constitutional principles and how they apply in the context of public higher education.

William E. Thro has served as general counsel of a public land grant research university and public liberal arts school, litigated constitutional issues before the Supreme Court of the United States and the federal appellate courts, taught courses on the Constitution at the undergraduate, and law school levels, and has written extensively on constitutional law in the context of higher education.

Charles J. Russo, M. Div., J.D., Ed. D., is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences, Director of its Ph.D. Program, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton. Author or co-author more than 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals; authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited more than 60 books, and more than 1,000 publications, Russo speaks extensively on issues in Education Law in the United States and other Nations.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION: NO ANGELS ON CAMPUS: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION

CHAPTER 1: THE FIXED STAR: THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH

CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST FREEDOM: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON CAMPUS

CHAPTER 3: NEITHER KNOWS NOR TOLERATES CLASSES: EQUAL PROTECTION

CHAPTER 4: A FUNDAMENTAL VALUE DETERMINATION: PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS IN CAMPUS DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 5: THE DOUBLE SECURITY: DUAL SOVEREIGNTY AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

CHAPTER 6: THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, NOT THEIR AGENTS: JUDICIAL ENFORCMENT OF FEDERAL LAW AND IMMUNITY

CONCLUSION: BUT THERE IS US: PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION AND HOPE FOR THE CONSTITUTION

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHORS

APPENDIX I: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

APPENDIX II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES