Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nature of law -- Legal structure of higher education -- Religion -- Student fees and tuition -- Students and parietal rules : fees, living and learning -- State action and students rights and liberties at priva te colleges -- Contractual relationship between student and university -- Student dismissals and procedural due process of law -- Substantive due process : liberty and property interests of students in grading and dismissals -- Student speech, expression and association -- Free speec h and electronic communication -- Student press -- Search and seizure - - Tort liability -- Defamation, student records and the Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act -- Immunity from liability of state in stitutions -- Liability and immunity of private institutions -- Racial integration and diversity in higher education -- Gender-based discrimin ation -- Academic freedom -- Faculty loyalty oaths and self-incriminati on -- Faculty contracts, tenure and collective bargaining -- Faculty an d due process of law -- Speech in public institutions -- Intellectual p roperty.