Online updating for The Law of Higher Education

(2006, Oxford University Press), Farrington & Palfreyman

The authors welcome suggestions for material to be included in the text and/or its linked casebook, as they do also any corrections of errors/typos within the text. Where appropriate the text will be amended/expanded online here, pending the next edition (tentatively due 2009/2010). Especially useful are comments from practitioner HE administrators/managers concerning any legal aspects of managing HEIs and the delivery of HE teaching and research that are not covered at all or inadequately within the 2006 edition. Please contact the authors via kate.hunter@new.ox.ac.uk. The text can be obtained directly from OUP, at 20% discount on the £75 price, by ringing 01536 454534 and quoting reference number WEBFAR0806.

PREFACE (Note): The US Law concept of ‘due process’ is discussed in Chapter 11 of WA Kaplin, American Constitutional Law: An Overview, Analysis and Integration (2004), and the dichotomy between substantive due process and procedural due process is explained – the former limits the policy choices of government officials and legislators so as to prevent government power being used in an oppressive way; the latter controls their implementation and enforcement of government policies so as to promote fairness in the application of government powers when dealing with individuals and their life, liberty or property (and for our purposes ‘government’ includes the State or public university). Substantive due process, as it were, establishes the ‘right’ (concerning, say, birth control, abortion or privacy, as implied fundamental rights); while procedural due process decides what processes are needed to protect that ‘right’, as well as the whole range of express constitutional rights such as free speech. The procedural due process standard will focus on the kind of constitutional natural justice requirements applicable in English Law (proper notice of the charge and an appropriate opportunity to be heard by an impartial decision-maker) and as discussed in paras 8.12 and 13.39: but they go further in typically giving the individual the right to retain counsel and to cross-examine witnesses, and hence academic/social behaviour discipline processes in US State/public HEIs end up closer to (but not having to mimic) formal court procedures than is required for compliance with natural justice under English Law (while, in contrast, the private US HEIs need not meet the standard of procedural due process, but, like UK HEIs (chartered or statutory), ‘only’ that of common law/contractual fairness (‘rudimentary due process’) as informed by the principles of natural justice).

1.05
1.06 (FN12)
1.07
1.08
1.12 (FN29)
1.12 (FN29)
1.13
1.14
1.20 (FN52)
1.20 (FN53)
1.24 (FN 65)
1.25
1.25 (FN69)
1.26
1.27
1.28
2.01
2.01 (FN2)
2.02
2.08
2.09 (FN26)
2.09 (FN27)
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.14
2.17
2.19
2.19 (FN56)
2.21
2.27
2.29
2.6 (FN18)
3.01
3.02
3.06
3.13
3.14
3.31
3.33 (FN80)
3.54 (FN130)
3.54 (FN131)
3.54 (FN132)
3.55
3.58 (New FN 141a)
3.66
3.67
4.03
4.05
4.06
4.08 FN 10
4.10
4.11 (FN16)
4.14
4.14 (FN 19)
4.15 (FN22)
4.16
4.17
4.17 (FN32)
4.18
4.22
4.25
5.02 (FN 3)
5.12 (FN 28)
5.15
5.2 (FN 3)
5.20
5.20
5.37
5.45/5.46
5.48
5.48 (FN180)
6.06
6.12
6.18
7.08
7.13 (FN 12)
7.15
7.18 (FN 22)
7.21
7.25
8.02 (NEW FN)
8.14
8.15
8.17
8.18
8.20
9.01
9.06
9.07
9.08
9.14
9.16
9.18 (FN 42)
9.20
10.08
10.11
10.18
10.19
10.21
10.21 (FN50)
10.25
10.27 (FN 67)
10.29
10.31
10.31
10.33
10.36
10.42
10.45
11.02
11.06
11.07
11.08
11.09
11.13
11.14
11.15
11.17
11.17 (FN 48)
11.23
11.27
11.30
11.32
11.33
11.35
11.35 (FN115)
11.37
11.37 (FN 132)
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11.41
11.43
11.46
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11.48
11.49 (FN 159)
11.50
11.53
11.90
12.02
12.14 (FN47)
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12.16
12.17
12.20
12.20 (FN 64)
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12.24
12.28
12.29
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12.51
12.53
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13.04
13.06
13.07
13.10
13.15
13.22
13.22 (FN 95)
13.22 (FN 97)
13.23
13.27
13.28
13.30
13.33
13.33 (FN 126)
13.34 (FN 127)
13.35
13.36
13.37
13.37 (FN 135)
13.38
13.38 (FN 139)
13.39
13.39 (FN 141)
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13.43
13.44
13.48
13.49
13.56
13.56 (FN 167)
13.56 (FN 169)
13.59
13.60
13.63
13.63 (FN 187)
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13.66
13.67
13.67 (FN 193)
13.69
13.69 (FN 196)
13.70
13.72 (FN 204)
13.74 (FN 211)
14.01
14.01 (FN2)
14.01 (FN2)
14.03
14.05 (FN 13)
14.07
14.10
14.12
14.12 (NEW FN)
14.15
15.12
15.21
15.23
16.03 (FN 1)
16.03 (FN 6)
16.04
16.09 (FN39)
16.10
16.11
16.16
16.17
16.17 (FN 70)
16.17 (FN 72)
16.17 (FN 73)
16.18
16.19
17.01
17.02
17.08
17.11
17.17
17.20
17.22
17.39
17.40
17.42
17.43
17.51
17.53
17.54
17.57
17.61
17.61 (FN 149)
18.01
18.01 (FN5)
18.04
18.04 (FN 7)
18.05
18.08
18.09
18.10
18.11
18.14
18.14A
18.15
18.17
18.20
19.01
19.03
19.05
19.08
19.10
20.03
21.02
21.03
21.04
21.04 (FN 2)
21.07
22.01
22.02
22.02 (FN 2)
22.02 (FN 21)
22.04
22.07
22.08
22.09
22.09 (FN 30)
22.10
22.11
22.13
22.15
22.16
22.17
22.19
23.05
23.09
23.09 (FN 16)
23.10
23.11
23.14
24.01
24.15
24.18
25.01
25.02
25.02 (FN5)
25.04
25.05
25.05 (FN 13)
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25.08
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25.12
25.13
25.15
25.17
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26.01
26.08
27.05 (FN 4)
27.08
27.14
27.30 (FN 11)
27.41
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28.09
28.10
29.01
29.01 (A)
29.01 (B)
29.02
29.02 (FN 1)
29.07
29.08
29.12a
29.14
29.18
29.20
29.20 (FN 85)
29.23
30.14
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