In January 1917, Professor Henry J. Fletcher launched the Minnesota Law Review with lofty aspirations: “A well-conducted law review . . . ought to do something to develop the spirit of statesmanship as distinguished from a dry professionalism. It ought at the same time contribute a little something to the systematic growth of the whole law.” For the next forty years, in conjunction with the Minnesota State Bar Association, the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School directed the work of student editors of the Law Review. Despite their initial oversight and vision, however, the faculty gradually handed the editorial mantle over to law students.
During 1954 and 1955, the “faculty” editors left the masthead of the journal, affiliation with the State Bar was severed, and the faculty Editor-in-Chief quietly assumed the role of “advisor.” From April 1955 through June 1989, a student President oversaw the publication. Then, in October of 1989, the student staff revived the role of Editor-in-Chief, a title now worn by a student. Today, the Board of Editors, consisting of up to thirty-nine editors, governs the Law Review and determines its policies and procedures. Along with thirty-eight student staff members, each Board of Editors strives to rise to the challenge of Professor Fletcher to “contribute a little something to the systematic growth of the whole law.”

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Submissions from 2002

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Power, Privacy and Thermal Imaging, Susan Bandes

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The Three Faces of Eve: Tortious Interference Claims in the Employment-at-Will Setting, Rebecca Bernhard

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Party Admissions in Criminal Cases: Should the Government Have to Eat Its Words?, Anne Bowen Poulin

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Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa: A Constitutional Possibility, Mary Patricia Byrn

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Introduction--Keeping Secrets, Dale Carpenter

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Lurking in the Shadows of Judicial Process: Special Masters in the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction Cases, Anne-Marie C. Carstens

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Collateral Estoppel of Claim Interpretation after Markman, Rachel Marie Clark

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The Freedom to Spend: The Case for Cash-Based Public Assistance, Martha B. Coven

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Crime and Consciousness: Science and Involuntary Acts, Deborah W. Denno

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Why Keep the Provocation Defense: Some Reflections on a Difficult Subject, Joshua Dressler

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Giving Full Faith and Credit to Punitive Damages Awards: Will Florida Rule the Nation, Michael Finch

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Facilitating Boycotts of Discriminatory Organizations Through an Informed Association Statute, Jennifer Gerarda Brown

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Personal Privacy and Common Goods: A Framework for Balancing under the National Health Information Privacy Rule, Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge Jr.

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HIPAA: Commercial Interests Win Round Two, Mike Hatch

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Surviving the View through the Lochner Looking Glass: Tahoe-Sierra and the Case for Upholding Development Moratoria, Dan Herber

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Medical Records and HIPAA: Is It Too Late to Protect Privacy, Peter D. Jacobson

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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Information Privacy, and the Limits of Default Rules, Edward J. Janger and Paul M. Schwartz

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Payday Loans: Shrewd Business or Predatory Lending?, Creola Johnson

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Is This Really the End of Duty?: The Evolution of the Third Restatement of Torts, Jordan K. Kolar

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Can Government Buy Everything?: The Takings Clause and the Erosion of the "Public Use" Requirement, Jennifer J. Kruckeberg

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The Founders' Privacy: The Fourth Amendment and the Power of Technological Surveillance, Raymond Shih Ray Ku Jr.

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Reverse-Spreigl Evidence: Challenging Defendants' Obligation to Exceed Prosecutorial Standards to Admit Evidence of Third Party Guilt, Jayna M. Mathieu

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Self-Definition in the Constitution of Faith and Family, David D. Meyer

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Shareholder Oppression &(and) Reasonable Expectations: Of Change, Gifts, and Inheritances in Close Corporation Disputes, Douglas K. Moll

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Taking "Privileges or Immunities" Seriously: A Call to Expand the Constitutional Canon, William J. Rich

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Foreword--Privacy and Secrecy after September 11, Marc Rotenberg

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Peeping Techno-Toms and the Fourth Amendment: Seeing through Kyllo's Rules Governing Technological Surveillance, Christopher Slobogin

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Access and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy and the Constitution, Daniel J. Solove

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The Jurisprudence of Antitrust Divestiture: The Path Less Traveled, E.Thomas Sullivan

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The Surprising Virtues of the New Financial Privacy Law, Peter P. Swire

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Blurring the Line Separating Church and State: California Exposes the Inherent Problems of Charitable Choice, Elizabeth Tobin

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Bankrupt Children, Elizabeth Warren

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Awakening a Sleeping Dog: An Examination of the Confusion in Ascertaining Purposeful Discrimination against Interstate Commerce, Julian Cyril Zebot

Submissions from 2001

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The Power of Congress without Limitation: The Property Clause and Federal Regulation of Private Property, Peter A. Appel

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The Most Dangerous Justice Rides Again: Revisting the Power Pageant of the Justices, Paul H. Edelman and Jim Chen

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To Do a Great Right, Do a Little Wrong: A User's Guide to Judicial Lawlessness, Ward Farnsworth

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Beyond Indian Law: The Rehnquist Court's Pursuit of States' Rights, Color-Blind Justice and Mainstream Values, David H. Getches

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The Structure of Judicial Opinions, John Leubsdorf

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Inter-Branch Appointments after the Independent Counsel: Court Appointment of United States Attorneys, Ross E. Wiener

Submissions from 2000

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Confronting Civil Discovery's Fatal Flaws, John S. Beckerman

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Equal Athletic Opportunity: An Analysis of Mercer v. Duke University and a Proposal to Amend the Contact Sport Exeception to Title IX, Abigail Crouse

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Actions Speak Louder Than Thoughts: The Constitutionally Questionable Reach of the Minnesota CLE Elminatoin of Bias Requirement, Kari M. Dahlin

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Continuing Payment on One's Debt to Society: The German Model of Felon Disenfranchisement as an Alternative, Nora V. Demleitner

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The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant, Stephen M. Feldman

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Accountants, the Hawks of the Professional World: They Foul Our Nest and Theirs Too, Plus Other Ruminations on the Issue of MDPs, Lawrence J. Fox

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Disciplinary Restrictions on Multidisciplinary Practice: Their Derivation, Their Development, and Some Implications for the Core Values Debate, Bruce A. Green

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Foreword: The Future of the Profession, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

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Knowledge about Welfare: Legal Realism and the Separation of Law and Ecnomics, Herbert Hovenkamp

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Breaking through the Silence: Minnesota's Pregnancy Presumption and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, Amy Lynn Jerdee

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Getting at the Root of Core Values: A Radical Proposal to Extend the Model Rules to Changing Forms of Legal Practice, James W. Jones and Bayless Manning

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Breeding Better Watchdogs: Multidisciplinary Partnerships in Corporate Legal Pracctice, Peter C. Kostant

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On Balance: Religious Liberty and Third-Party Harms, Jonathan C. Lipson

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Tortious Interference with Business Relations: The Other White Meat of Employment Law, Alex B. Long

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Not If but How: Reflecting on the ABA Commission's Recommendations on Multidisciplinary Practice, John H. Matheson and Edward S. Adams

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Free Speech to a Machine--Encryption Software Source Code Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech under the First Amendment, Katherine A. Moerke

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Profession in Convergence: Taking the Next Step, Lowell J. Noteboom

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Lawyers' Rules, Auditors' Rules and the Psychology of Concealment, Richard W. Painter

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Balancing Private Property Rights with Public Interests: Compensating Landowners for the Use of Railroad Corridors for Fiber-Optic Technology, Jill K. Pearson

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Flight from the Center: Is It Just or Just about Money, Burnele V. Powell

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Let There Be False Light: Resisting the Growing Trend against an Important Tort, Nathan E. Ray

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Is Big Brother Listening--A Critical Analysis of New Rules Permitting Law Enforcement Agenceis to Use Dialed Digit Extraction, Michael A. Rosow

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Multidisciplinary Practice, Professional Regulation, and the Anti-Interference Principle in Legal Ethics, Ted Schneyer

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Private Threats, Public Stigma--Avoiding False Dichotomies in the Application of Megan's Law to the Juvenile Justice System, Michael L. Skoglund

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Should Federal Regulation Eliminate Defenses to Criminal Prosecution--The Viability of Implied Authorization and Participant Benefit Defenses When Read in Light of ERISA, Christopher Stall

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Multidisciplinary Practices: Prohibit or Regulate, Robert A. Stein

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Young, Talented, and Fired: The New Jersey Law against Discrimination and the Right Decision in Bergen Commercial Bank v. Sisler, Chad A. Stewart

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German MDPs: Lessons to Learn, Laurel S. Terry

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Enforcing Lawyer Non-Competition Agreements While Maintaining the Profession: The Role of Conflict of Interest Principles, Robert M. Wilcox

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Preserving the Potential for Politics Online: The Internet's Challenge to Federal Election Law, Ryan P. Winkler

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The ABA and MDPs: Context, History, and Process, Charles W. Wolfram

Submissions from 1999

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When Y2K Causes Economic Loss to Other Property, Peter A. Alces and Aaron S. Book

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Nixon's Shadow, Akhil Reed Amar

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Identity and Assimilation: Changing Definitions of Tribal Power over Children, Barbara Ann Atwood

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The All New (International) People's Court: The Future of the Direct Effect Clause after Voest-Apline Trading USA Corp v. Bank of China, Matthew Bensen

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The Changing Burden of Employer Liability for Workplace Discrimintation, Elizabeth M. Brama

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Caging the Wolf: Seeking a Constitutional Home for the Independent Counsel, Rebecca L. Brown

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Caesarism, Departmentalism, and Professor Paulsen, Steven G. Calabresi

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Random Notes of an Integration Warrior--Part 2: A Critical Response to the Hegemonic Truth of Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry, John O. Calmore

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Procreative Liberty and Contemporaneous Choice: An Inalienable Rights Approach to Frozen Embryo Disputes, Carl H. Coleman

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C'est Moi, Anne M. Coughlin

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To the Bone: Race and White Privilege, Jerome McCristal Culp Jr.

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Beyond All Criticism, Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry

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The Transformation of the Juvenile Court--Part II: Race and the Crack Down on Youth Crime, Barry C. Feld

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QUATSCH!, Matthew W. Finkin

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Revisiting the Revival of Theory in Statutory Interpretation: A Lecture in Honor of Irving Younger, Philip P. Frickey

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Why Rubbish Matters: The Neoconservative Underpinnings of Social Constructionist Theory, Steven G. Gey

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Demystifying ADR Neutral Regulation in Minnesota: The Need for Uniformity and Public Trust in the Twenty-First Century ADR System, Adam Furlan Gislason

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Drifting through Byzantium: The Promise and Failure of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Robert M. Gordon

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The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law: Why Driving While Black Matters, David A. Harris

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Executive Privilege Since United States v. Nixon: Issues of Motivation and Accomodation, Dawn Johnsen

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The Constitutional Dilemma of Litigation under the Independent Counsel System, William K. Kelley

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Does the Commerce Clause Eclipse the Export Clause: Making Sense of United States v. United States Shoe Corp., Claire R. Kelly and Daniela Amzel

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The Driver's Privacy Protection Act: On the Fast Track to National Harmony or Commercial Chaos, Oliver J. Kim

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Partners Dumping Partners: Business before Ethics in Bohatch v. Butler &(and) Binion, Margaret Kline Kirkpatrick

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United States v. Nixon: The Prelude, Philip Allen Lacovara

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Adapting to Miranda: Modern Interrogators' Strategies for Dealing with the Obstacles Posed by Miranda, Richard A. Leo and Welsh S. White

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The ERISA Amendment: A Prescription to Sue MCOs for Wrongful Treatment Decisions, Julia K. Locke

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The Independent Counsel Statute: Reading Good Cause in Light of Article II, John F. Manning

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Caught between Scalia and the Deep Blue Lake: The Takings Clause and Transferable Development Rights Programs, Paul Merwin

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The Quixotic Search for a Judicially Enforceable Federalism, H.Geoffrey Moulton Jr.