Previous edition: 2012.

I. The national and international context -- Higher education law : the national context -- Higher education law : the international context -- Legal status of higher education institutions -- The role of government, the Office for Students, funding councils, and QAA -- II. Governance and management of higher education institutions -- Governance structures -- Officers and managers -- Charity trusteeship and personal liability -- The law of meetings -- Student unions -- III. Higher education institutions : staff and students -- Employment : introduction and individual issues except discrimination -- Employment : discrimination and collective issues -- The student : HEI contract -- IV. Contrasting freedoms -- Academic freedom and HEI autonomy -- Ownership and exploitation of intellectual property -- Data protection and freedom of information -- V. Higher education institutions as businesses -- Trading companies -- Agreements with institutions and organizations -- VI. Property and estate issues -- HEI premises : occupier's liability and disability discrimination -- Campus security -- Student residential accommodation -- Health and safety -- VII. Risk assessment, preventative action, and dispute management -- Risk assessment and management -- Dispute management : mediation and litigation -- VIII. Comparative studies -- Higher education law in other common law systems -- Higher education law in the European civil law systems.