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C. L. Lindsay III. The College Student's Guide to the Law. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005.341 pp. ISBN: 1-58979-089-8.
With the increased pace and scope of legal issues arising on college and university campuses, it would behoove any student, faculty member, or administrator to own a copy of C. L. Lindsay Ill's The College Student's Guide to the Law. This comprehensive legal handbook provides sound, practical advice on a myriad of legal issues that concern college and university campuses. The author schematically presents complex legal topics with such clarity that any nonlegal scholar can easily understand.
The book begins with two introductory chapters: "Your Constitution" and "Your College." Undoubtedly the most important section of the book, these chapters provide the reader with an excellent foundation in basic Constitutional rights and the applicability of those rights on college and university campuses. These introductory chapters help the reader identify his or her legal rights within the framework of institutional policy. Lindsay also provides insightful historical information about the evolution of the relationship between higher education institutions and their students from a parent-child type of relationship to a more contractual, fiduciary type of relationship.
The remainder of the book is divided into three sections: (1) The Law in the Classroom, (2) The Law on Campus, and (3) The Law Off Campus. section 1, "The Law in...