Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed. D., is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Allied Professions and adjunct professor in the School of Law at the University of Dayton. The 1998-1999 president of the Education Law Association and 2002 recipient of its McGhehey (Achievement) Award, he has in excess of five hundred publications. He speaks extensively on issues in education law in the United States and overseas.Douglas Stewart, Ph.D., has been president of the Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association and was the founding editor of the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education. He has published widely in both professional and academic journals, is the co-author of Schools, Courts and the Law: Managing Student Welfare and has authored or coauthored chapters in a number of books in Australia and elsewhere.Jan De Groof is founder and chairman of both the European Association for Education Law and Policy and of the Interuniversity Centre for Education Law. He is also a cofounder of the Russian and the South African Associations for Education Law and Policy. One of the leading education law specialists worldwide, he helped organize and chaired the First World Conference on the Right to Education, in Amsterdam, The Hague, 2004. De Groof is professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the University of Tilburg, Netherlands.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 AustraliaChapter 3 BelgiumChapter 4 ChinaChapter 5 GermanyChapter 6 EnglandChapter 7 MalaysiaChapter 8 NetherlandsChapter 9 New ZealandChapter 10 Northern IrelandChapter 11 PortugalChapter 12 The Russian FederationChapter 13 South AfricaChapter 14 United StatesChapter 15 Analysis and Reflections