William Koski
Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education and Director, Youth and Education Law Project

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

William S. Koski, Courthouses vs. Statehouses? (Book review of: Schoolhouses, Courthouses and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools by Erik Hanushek & Alfred A. Lindseth; and, Courts & Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through the State Courts by Michael A. Rebell.) 109 Michigan Law Review 923 (2011)
Bill Koski, How the Governor Tried to Eliminate Mental Health Services for Schoolchildren, Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts on Public Education, November 27, 2010.
Koski, Bill, Can We Sue Our Way Out of This Mess?, Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts on Public Education blog, September 28, 2010.
William S. Koski, The Evolving Role of the Courts in School Reform Twenty Years After Rose, 98 Kentucky Law Journal 789 (2010)
Alex Molnar, William S. Koski, Faith Boninger, Policy and Statutory Responses to Advertising and Marketing in Schools, Boulder: Education and the Public Interest Center, University of Colorado at Boulder; Tempe: Commercialism in Education Research Unit, Arizona State University, 2010.
William S. Koski and Jeannie Oakes, Equal Educational Opportunity, School Reform, and the Courts: A Study of the Desegregation Litigation in San Jose, in From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation, Claire E. Smrekar and Ellen B. Goldring, eds., Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press (2009).
William S. Koski, School Finance, in The Chicago Companion to the Child, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in press).
William S. Koski and Jesse Hahnel, The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Educational Finance Reform Litigation, in Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, New York: Routledge, 2008.
William S. Koski and Eileen Horng, Facilitating the Teacher Quality Gap? Collective Bargaining Agreements, Teacher Hiring and Transfer Rules, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in California, 2 Education Finance and Policy 262 (2007).
William S. Koski and Rob Reich, When "Adequate" Isn't: The Retreat from Equality in Educational Law and Policy and Why it Matters, 56 Emory Law Journal 545.
William Koski and Eileen L. Horng, Curbing or Facilitating Inequality? Law, Collective Bargaining, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in California, Stanford, CA: Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (2007).
William S. Koski, Achieving "Adequacy" in the Classroom, 27 Boston College Third World Journal 13 (2007).
Rob Reich and William S. Koski, Adequacy, Equity, and the State, working paper prepared for Rethinking Rodriguez: Education as a Fundamental Right Symposium, Boalt Hall School of Law, April 27-28, 2006.
R. Richard Banks, Pamela S. Karlan, William S. Koski and Jack Greenberg, Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years Later [Panel discussion], 38 Stanford Lawyer 20-25 (Spring 2004).
William S. Koski, The Politics of Judicial Decision-Making in Educational Policy Reform Litigation, 55 Hastings Law Journal 1077-1233 (2004).
William S. Koski. Challenge And Opportunity: An Analysis Of Chapter 26.5 And The System For Delivering Mental Health Services To Special Education Students In California, (2004). (with Jenna Klatell, David Kovick, Karie Lew, and Diane Thompson)
William S. Koski and Hillary Anne Weis, What Educational Resources Do Students Need to Meet California's Educational Content Standards? A Textual Analysis of California's Educational Content Standards and Their Implications for Basic Educational Conditions and Resources, 106 Teachers College Record 1907-1935 (2004).
William S. Koski, Foreword: The Political Construction of Youth Crime and its Policy Consequences, 14.1 Stanford Law & Policy Review 5-8 (2003).
William S. Koski, Of Fuzzy Standards and Institutional Constraints: A Re-Examination of the Jurisprudential History of Educational Finance Reform Litigation, 43 Santa Clara Law Review 1185-1298 (2003).
William S. Koski, Educational Opportunity and Accountability in an Era of Standards-Based School Reform, 12 Stanford Law and Policy Review 301-332 (2001)

bkoski@stanford.edu

650 724.3718

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BBA with highest distinction University of Michigan 1990
JD cum laude University of Michigan Law School 1993
PhD Stanford University School of Education 2003

Expertise:

Children and the Law
Clinical Education
Education Law
Educational Politics
Policy Analysis