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Reader-friendly, jargon-free guide to legal issues all college faculty need to know so that they can make teaching decisions within the bounds of the law.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Liability Risks for Professional Decisions: Starting with the Good News
2: Your Syllabus and Contract Law: Be Careful about Playing Lawyer in Your Course
3: Academic Freedom and the First Amendment's Protection of Faculty (and Student) Speech
4: Intellectual Property and Faculty and Students: Who Owns What?
5: Key Questions about FERPA: Does Anybody Understand This Stuff?
6: Faculty and Administrators in Defamation Cases
7: Employment Protection, Tenure Matters, and the Law
Index
Author Biography
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Kent Kauffman is an associate professor of business law in the Doermer School of Business at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he primarily teaches business law and ethics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also serves as the faculty liaison for the master of business administration programs in the Doermer School of Business. He has a BA from Temple University and a JD from The Penn State University–Dickinson School of Law, and holds an Indiana law license. In addition to having published articles in peer-reviewed journals, Kauffman is the author of Legal Ethics (through the third edition); is a coauthor of Legal Terminology; and is a contributing author for two other buisness law texts.
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Reader-friendly, jargon-free guide to legal issues all college faculty need to know so that they can make teaching decisions within the bounds of the law.
