This first issue of 2012 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and its issues of policy and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism, charter and Catholic schools, Amish one-room schools, minority students, empirical work on religious schools, federalism, equal opportunity, and higher-education accreditation.

In addition, the issue includes articles by Clayton Gillette on municipal bankruptcy and federalism, and Steven Horowitz on copyright law's asymmetry, as well as a Comment on wartime waivers.

The issue serves, in effect, as a new book on cutting-edge issues of educational law and policy in the United States by renowned researchers in the field. It is presented in modern eBook formatting and features active Tables of Contents; linked footnotes and URLs; linked cross-references; and legible graphs.