A modern search engine for special education case law.

Special Education Law makes special education due process decisions fully searchable, with citation tracking, filters, saved folders, appeal alerts, and AI search.

I built Special Education Law in 2014 to make information about special education accessible to everyone.

Back then, if you wanted to research special education caselaw, you had to read one decision at a time or pay for an outdated service. A decade later, the legacy tools haven’t meaningfully changed. Special Education Law is the research search engine I always wanted, and the one I think the field deserves.

Daniel Perlman

Managing Editor

Everything an attorney, advocate, educator, or parent needs for legal research.

Full-text search

Quoted phrases, OR, exclusion (-), proximity, and direct case-number lookup.

Citation tracking

Every decision links to the decisions it cites, and the ones that cite it back. Trace a line of reasoning across decades, whether you're building an argument or anticipating one.

Fine tune with filters

Narrow by hearing officer, school district, outcome (parent / district / mixed), or document type.

Saved folders

Sign in to save decisions to folders for the cases, IEP teams, or policy questions you're working on. Add notes, and come back later on any device.

Appeal alerts

Special Education Law is the only website that provides alerts when due process decisions are affirmed or overruled in federal court.

AI search

Ask a question and get an AI-assisted answer grounded in published decisions, with the source cases shown alongside it.

Made accessible.

Save due process decisions to folders, get an email when new decisions or rulings post, and search across multiple jurisdictions with AI.