A 1980 cumulative supplement to the basic text, "Higher Education and the Law," is presented. Contents include: edited reports of five United States Supreme Court cases, important lower court cases, regulations and reports; and citations to numerous law review articles, additional cases, and other secondary sources. The following broad topics are covered: the college or university as a legal entity, faculty rights, student rights, and federal regulation of higher education. Specific issues include the following: legal attributes of private universities, the constitutionally autonomous university, academic freedom, faculty tenure, unionization and collective bargaining, substantive constitutional rights of students, procedural due process for students, equal educational opportunity and racial desegregation, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, constitutional and statutory protections against employment discrimination, affirmative action in employment, the Equal Pay Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, student loans, and the Copyright Law Revision of 1976. (SW)