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Guidelines for Book/Monograph Proposals

The Education Law Association's Publications Committee welcomes submissions of book/monograph proposals on public and private education law topics, including higher education.

Please read guidelines below before submitting your proposal.

Submit a proposal online

Submit a proposal via email (with attachment)

Subsequent acceptance of a completed book/monograph for publication will depend on realization of its potential (based on the stated guidelines and objectivity with respect to the topic), along with acceptable book length (greater than 100 pages) or monograph length (less than 100 pages), literate writing style (conceptually clear, organized, and easy to read), and citations that follow the current edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.

Among topics of potential interest are sexual abuse of students, Section 504 and ADA issues in the schools, privatization of public school management and services, academic freedom issues (including politically correct speech and hate speech issues), and bilingual education issues. Proposals on other topics are also welcome.

Proposals must address each of the following:

Rationale - Describe the timeliness and significance of your topic.

Audience - Describe the potential market / audience for this book/monograph (e.g., school attorneys, schools administrators, public school teachers, higher education professors).

Scope - Describe the scope of the book/monograph and explain how comprehensive your treatment of the topic will be.

Content - Outline and describe the topics and subtopics to be included in your book/monograph. Under each topic and subtopic, indicate what content will be descriptive and what will be analytic.

Source Material - List and describe the specific primary and secondary sources upon which the book/monograph will draw. Indicate whether there will be original, empirical data and how up-to-date the material is.

Knowledge Base - Describe your own knowledge base (experience, research) for this particular book/monograph, including any previous work you have done that is relevant to the content of the book/monograph.

Special Materials - Describe any charts, tables, graphs, etc., that you plan to include in the book/monograph.

Competing Works - List author, title, and publisher of any competing materials of which you are aware. Please indicate what gap your material would fill and why it would add to what is already available.

Length and Schedule - Indicate the projected length of your book/monograph (double-spaced) and a realistic completion date.

Tentative Title - Please indicate your working title and possible alternative titles that would be appropriate.

Author - Include a resume and a list of prior publications.

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