Magna's Campus Legal Briefing helps the busy campus administrator anticipate and reduce legal risk by providing the latest information on court cases, federal regulation, and current issues. Typical issues are employment, discrimination, harassment, safety, liability, privacy, copyright, and much more.

This publication includes a weekly briefing AND a searchable database:

* Magna’s Campus Legal Briefing comes by email every week. It alerts you to trends, reviews current legal issues, and answers reader questions.

* Even more important is your Campus Legal Briefing database. At your fingertips you get unlimited searching of issues currently of concern to you. This is not a legal database for attorneys. It’s a plain-language discussion of thousands of cases and incidents. Get the information you need now on specific topics to make decisions about what you and your staff should do – and not do – to keep out of legal hot water.

Who should read:
• Administrators
• Presidents
• Vice Presidents
• Student Affairs Professionals
• Business Officers
• Campus Safety/Police
• University Attorney
• Legal Consultants

Benefits of reading:
• Provides critical information about discrimination, affirmative action, campus crime, faculty tenure and promotion, and student rights.
• Provides up-to-date legal interpretations that have significant implications for reducing institutional risk and minimizing liability.

Types of articles and writing style:
Legal issues are discussed in a lively, readable style, accessible to the lay person. Postings contain in-depth discussions of currently important cases, brief summaries of selected cases dealing with hot topics, special sections including “Laying Down the Law,” a backgrounder on a current theme in campus law; “Liability Tip,” a heads-up on potential areas of institutional legal exposure; Dennis Black’s regular "Opinions" column, with a timely, informed personal perspective on important issues; and "Just Ask", where readers can ask Dr. Black questions relevant to their own institutions.

Pricing and subscription term:
$249 - 52 issues per year
Includes searchable database
Discounts for multiple copy subscriptions

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Magna's Campus Legal Briefing

Meet the Editor:

Dennis Black is vice president for student affairs at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. As an administrator, instructor and attorney, Dennis speaks, writes, and consults on student service-related issues and legal concerns for educational institutions. Dennis is a member of the NASPA Journal editorial board and was named a "Pillar of the Profession" in 2004. Dennis holds his juris doctorate degree from the University at Buffalo, from which he received the 1996 Chancellor's Award for Excellence.

Submission Guidelines:
Please read the following author’s guidelines or contact the Editorial Department at editor@magnapubs.com or (608) 227-8120.