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 A     Autism

A.A.C. Augmentative
& Alternative Comm

ADA    Americans
with Disabilities Act

ADE    Arizona
Department of Education

ADHD   Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity

       Disorder

ALJ    Arizona
Law Judge

APE    Adaptive
Physical Education

A.R.S. Arizona Revised Statutes

ASD    Autism
Spectrum Disorder

ASL    American
Sign Language

AzEIP  Arizona
Early Intervention Program

BIP    Behavior
Intervention Plan

C.F.R. Code of Federal Regulations

DD     Developmental
Disorder

US DOE United States Department of Ed

DP     Due
Process

DSM-V  Diagnostic
& Statistical Manual-5

ED     Emotional
Disability

ESY    Extended
School Year

FAPE   Free
& Appropriate Public Education

FBA    Functional
Behavior Assessment

FERPA  Family
Education Records Privacy Act

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Continue Reading Special Education Acronyms Parents Need to Know for MET and IEP meetings

This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between April 1, 2026 and June 30, 2026.

Khaled A. Beydoun, Telling War Stories: Innocence, Indictment, and (En)gendered Terror, 114 Georgetown Law Journal 1017 (2026)

The law is replete with dominant narratives endorsed by its letter and amplified by connected and conspiring levers of power. This Article centers the discursive power of law, and specifically, the War on Terror’s grand narrative of “masculine Arab and Muslim terrorism.” By gendering terror…
Continue Reading New Faculty Publications – Summer 2026

This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between January 1, 2026 and March 31, 2026.

Ellen M. Bublick, A Research Agenda for Tort Law (Ellen M. Bublick & John C.P. Goldberg eds., Edward Elgar 2026)

This Research Agenda indicates key directions for future investigation in tort law, with particular focus on the ways in which laws could and should assign responsibility for injury and regulate safety. Bringing together leading international experts, this book maps out key challenges of…
Continue Reading New Faculty Publications – Spring 2026

This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between October 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025.

Kenneth W. Abbott & Benjamin Faude, Does the System Work? Transnational Crises and the Resilience of Global Governance, 27 International Studies Review 1 (2025)

In recent decades, global governance has faced significant transnational crises characterized by threat, urgency, and uncertainty, from the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, heterogeneous infra-state, public–private, and private governance institutions have proliferated alongside incumbent inter-state…
Continue Reading New Faculty Publications – Winter 2026

This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between July 1, 2025 and September 30, 2025.

Kenneth W. Abbott & Benjamin Faude, Does the System Work? Transnational Crises and the Resilience of Global Governance, International Studies Review (forthcoming)

In recent decades, global governance has faced significant transnational crises characterized by threat, urgency, and uncertainty, from the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, heterogeneous infra-state, public–private, and private governance institutions have proliferated alongside incumbent inter-state institutions. As…
Continue Reading New Faculty Publications – Fall 2025

Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch PLLC Education Attorney Lori Kirsch-Goodwin was interviewed by the AZ Capitol Times following her testimony before the AZ State Legislature about premature graduation of students with disabilities, an issue KGK has been increasingly dealing with.

 ‘Premature graduation’ of students with disabilities challenged by parents, educators | Arizona Capitol Times
Continue Reading Premature Graduation of Students with Disabilities

The IDEA protects students with disabilities
in disciplinary proceedings that may result in long term suspension or
expulsion. Suspension over 10 days in a school year requires a Manifestation
Determination Review (MDR) (see below). 
A student with a disability (with an IEP) may be suspended for up to 10
school days in a school year without FAPE being provided.  Suspension for more than 10 school days is considered
a long term suspension. 

If a student with a disability may be
suspended for more than 10 school days due to a code of conduct violation, the
public agency, parents, and relevant…
Continue Reading Navigating the Manifestation Determination Review (MDR)

A disciplinary
change of placement occurs for a student with a disability if: (1) The removal
is for more than 10 consecutive school days; or (2) he student has been
subjected to a series of removals that constitute a pattern because the series
of removals total more than 10 school days in a school year; because the
student’s behavior is substantially similar to the student’s behavior in
previous incidents that resulted in the series of removals; and because of
additional factors, such as the length of each removal, the total amount of
time the student has been removed, and…
Continue Reading Change in Placement: The 10-Day Rule, Interim Alternative Settings, etc.

This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between October 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.

Angela Banks, A Human Rights Approach to Membership and Belonging in Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education (Audrey Osler & Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerløw eds., Routledge 2024)

One fundamental task that all states must address is who are the members of the state. State membership dictates what rights an individual has vis-à-vis the state and what responsibilities an individual has to the state. The traditional…
Continue Reading New Faculty Publications – Winter 2025

 504 vs IEP   A 504 Plan provides accommodations, services and/or aids to
students with a disability (as that term is defined under the Americans with
Disabilities Act Amendments Act) to afford the student equal opportunities to
participate in school activities and receive the same instruction as
nondisabled peers, but they do not require special education. Accommodations
may include extra time for the same assignments as their peers, a separate
quiet room to take the same test as their peers, large type for reading the same
instructional material, or ramps to physically access the same classroom. An
IEP is…
Continue Reading Difference between a 504 and an IEP and how do they affect the student

Excerpted from an interview of attorney Hope Kirsch to LRP:Parent attorney isn’t coming to IEP meeting, but school attorney is? Watch your stepThe case manager has all the documents ready and is just a couple of hours away from beginning the IEP meeting. Then the parent attorney calls to say she can’t make it to the meeting.Can the IEP team and school attorney continue with the meeting, despite the parent attorney’s absence?The Office of Special Education Program’s position is to “strongly discourage” attorney attendance at IEP meetings in general. Notwithstanding any strict reading of the law, “an attorney’s…
Continue Reading Can a school attorney attend an IEP meeting if the parent attorney does not?

 The key federal laws that affect students with disabilities are the Individuals w/ Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Sec 504 of the Rehab Act of 1973 as amended (Section 504) and the Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA).

Three federal laws address the obligation of public district
schools and charter schools to meet the needs of students with
disabilities.  These three key laws that
affect students with disabilities are the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA), Sec 504 of the Rehab Act of 1973 as amended (Section 504)
and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  These are federal statutes.  Federal statutes are

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Continue Reading The Laws Impacting Students with Disabiities