Jeffrey Murray's Qualifications

About Jeffrey Murray:

Jeffrey Murray holds a Juris Doctorate (Suffolk University Law School) and is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association. He has thirty years relevant experience in public school law as a teacher, public school principal, (at both the elementary and middle school level), president of a teacher’s union. He has served as a contract negotiator for a teacher’s union and principal’s association. Finally, Jeffrey Murray served on a team successfully representing 44 dismissed teachers at all stages, hearings, arbitration, and negotiation.

Courses Taught:

Law School:
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Education Law
Legal Policy, Jurisprudence and the Internet
Information Age Law, Cork University, Ireland (summer 2006)

Graduate level courses:
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Massachusetts
Plymouth State University, New Hampshire.
I have taught Masters and CAGS level courses in School Law, No Child Left Behind, Legal Policy for Educators, Special Education Law, Educators and the Internet

Undergraduate level:
Foundations of Learning
Ethics for Educators

School Law Presenter on the following topics:

Special Education Law
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
No Child Left Behind
Family Education Rights to privacy Act (FERPA) (programs for teachers, administrators and paraprofessionals)
Legal Policy for Educators
Student Constitutional Rights
Educator Liability, Malpractice
No Child Left Behind
Internet Law for Schools
School Law for Paraprofessionals
Family Education Rights to privacy Act (FERPA)
Copyright Law for Educators
Educators and Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Hazing
Legal Issues Workshop for Student Teachers
Legal Issues Workshop for Physical Trainers

Plymouth State University, 2000-present

Adjunct faculty member, teaching Masters and CAGS level courses in:
· Legal Policy,
· Special Education Law,
· School Law,
· No Child Left Behind
· Internet Law for Educators.

Currently teaching:

Legal Policy course in Education Administration for administrators, graduate students and teachers. Topics include contracts, grievances, arbitrations, sexual harassment, educator liability, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, school record keeping and FERPA.

Special Education Law. Topics include the Reauthorization of IDEA, Section 504, Student discipline and special education, student discipline and Section 504, creating IEPS, how to prepare for a due process hearings, etc.

Franklin Pierce Law School

· Education Law 1 and Information Age Law toJuris Doctorate candidates.

· Cork University, Cork, Ireland, Information Age Law, summer 2006

New Hampshire Community College at Laconia

· Ethics in Education, a college course, taught to paraprofessionals through New Hampshire Community Technical College, Laconia. .
· Foundation of Education to 14 paraprofessionals in Plymouth, New Hampshire through NHCTC.
· Ethical Issues in Education, Winter 2006.

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Adjunct Faculty member, I created and taught a masters level Legal Policy course for administrators and teachers. 1985 to 2000.