Eve Rips
Introduction
Eve rips in an Assistant professor of Law. her scholarly research and writing focuses on educational policy and legislation.
Article Written By Professor Eve Rips is Published in the Michigan State Law Review
An article written by Assistant Professor Eve Rips, “The Collateral Consequences of School Disciplinary Records” was published by the Michigan State Law Review. Read the abstract below.
“Although a large body of scholarship has addressed the lifelong consequences of criminal records, researchers and advocates have paid less attention to the analogous set of permanent consequences that attach to school disciplinary records. Likewise, although many authors have addressed inequities in school discipline, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the negative impacts of missed school time due to discipline, scholarship has not yet comprehensively addressed the ways in which school records themselves can impede access to education, licensure, and employment for years to come. Yet in a way that parallels the set of inequitable barriers erected by criminal and juvenile records, school disciplinary records also lead to their own set of collateral consequences. These collateral consequences mean that the racial inequities pervasive in school disciplinary practices are reflected throughout adulthood in decisions about who gains access to critical opportunities to learn and to work.
This Article documents the ways that elementary and secondary school disciplinary records can continue to erect barriers for years after graduation. It finds that requirements to disclose K-12 disciplinary records in college admissions, graduate admissions, and applications for professional licensure are surprisingly common. FERPA exceptions and data breaches can also leave information from school records vulnerable. This Article provides the first thorough analysis of the limited ways that legislative and institutional changes have begun to address this issue to date. It concludes by proposing a more robust set of novel legislative solutions, analogous to expungement and ban the box laws in the criminal context, designed
to ensure that records of school discipline remain truly confidential.”
Read the Full Article
Presentations & Awards
Presentations:
- “Education Law, Co-Sponsored by Teaching Methods” presented at the AALS 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.