Suing alma mater: higher education and the courts
Year: 2014
Type: book-review
Abstract: This page intentionally left blankin the forest where no one can hear it" (p.v).For LaNoue and Lee, there were many trees crashing, and not in silence.Most importantly, I have adopted their overarching purpose in my study that follows theirs by twenty-fi ve years: "We are concerned with what happens to the par tic u lar people and institutions that get caught up in the litigation pro cess.In 1983 there were about 13 million civil lawsuits in the United States.For the participants, these cases involved an enormous amount of time, money, expense, and often anxiety.Litigation in our society has assumed an unusual role in confl ict resolution, and it is important to describe and, eventually, to mea sure the consequences of this pro cess.This requires a new social science lens, which this book develops and applies" (p.173).As they did, I inhabited Marlboro country with the various actors in these dramas, and I have sought to add details and nuance that round out the cases.All cases resemble life less the farther they move through various appeals pro cesses toward what ever "resolution" there is in the arc of that case's life.I would be satisfi ed to be viewed as someone as successful as they were in their book. This page intentionally left blank PAR T IThis page intentionally left blank table 2.1.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Author: Olivas, Michael A.
Language: English
Topic: Legal Issues in Education
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W577246242