Frank R. Kemerer

Frank Kemerer, Ph.D., teaches education law and policy courses in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences and in the School of Law. He also is associate director for Research and Academic Affairs of the Center for Education Policy and Law (CEPAL), which operates under the auspices of both schools. Kemerer has authored or coauthored a dozen books on education law and on school choice, privatization, and vouchers. He received the Scribes Finalist Book Award in 1992 from the American Society of Legal Writers for his book William Wayne Justice: A Judicial Biography (University of Texas Press, 1991). The biography was reprinted in paperback with an extended epilogue in November 2008. He received the 2002 Bronze Medal Book of the Year Award in Education from Foreword Magazine for School Choice Tradeoffs (University of Texas Press, 2002, coauthored with Kenneth Godwin). His book School Choice and Social Controversy (with Stephen Sugarman) was published in 1999 by Brookings Institution Press. The second edition of his book, California School Law (coauthored with Peter Sansom, a USD School of Law graduate) was published by Stanford University Press in 2009. The second edition of that book (with Peter Sansom) will be published in 2009. Kemerer served as Regents Professor of Education Law and Administration for many years at the University of North Texas in Denton, as executive assistant to the president at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Arts and Science at Geneseo, and, early in his career, as a private school administrator in Chicago and San Francisco. He also served as a research associate at the Center for Education Research at Staford University in the 1970's.