Education Law Association

Come for the Conferences. Stay for the Community.

A nonprofit member organization, the Education Law Association offers its uniquely diverse membership unbiased information about current legal issues affecting education and the rights of those involved in education.

Our social clubs and sections ignite the professional community through compelling discussion forums, real-time messaging, and live events. Connect with colleagues about various subspecialties within education law, such as K-12, higher education, charter schools, labor & employment, school choice, school finance, school governance, school safety, special education, student rights, teacher rights and responsibilities, teaching education law, and Title IX.

ABOUT THE EDUCATION LAW ASSOCIATION

A nonprofit member organization, the Education Law Association offers its uniquely diverse membership unbiased information about current legal issues affecting education and the rights of those involved in education.

Our Members

Members include professors, attorneys, school and college/university administrators, advocates, consultants, public officials, and policy experts. Student members are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and law schools. We serve emerging, established, or retired professionals in public and private K-12 or postsecondary education and legal practice in education law. Members come from academic and policy organizations, law firms, and public institutions. They are interested in practical knowledge, scholarship, and interdisciplinary dialogue about the intersection of education and legal systems in the United States and worldwide.

Our Mission

The Education Law Association is to be the premier association for practical knowledge, scholarship, and interdisciplinary dialogue about legal and policy issues affecting all levels of education.

Our Vision

The Education Law Association will improve education by developing connections between education law, the study of education law, and the application of education law in the field while promoting diversity, equity, inclusivity, and excellence in all levels of education.

We carry out these ends by holding meetings to present and discuss education law issues, stimulating the teaching and learning of education law, and issuing publications and other information on education law. The Education Law Association serves as a clearinghouse for information on research and publications and provides other member-related services.

Our Services

The Education Law Association publishes books used as professional resources and textbooks, legal periodicals, updates about the field of education law, and newsletters for its members.

The Education Law Association holds an annual conference, webinars, and seminars and offers continuing legal education and professional development programs.

Members access a social learning community through the mobile app or template. There, they access an online library of member resources and engage in a year-round forum for professional networking and the collaborative development and sharing of knowledge.

Our Impact

Since 1954, the Education Law Association has been a vital resource for education professionals and legal advocates serving educational institutions.

Our books and periodicals have become vital resources to advance legal education. Attorneys, law firms, professors, bookstores, and libraries use our timely and timeless publications.

Our annual meetings, courses, webinars, and seminars provide timely continuing legal education for attorneys and professional development for teachers and administrators.

Overall, we measure our impact not only by the quantity of our professional network and services but also by the richness of our community, for which we take shared responsibility. We are deeply committed to making hospitality not a slogan but a way of building our diverse community.