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 1994

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Life and Liberty: Their Original Meaning, Historical Antecedents, and Current Significance in the Debate over Abortion Rights, Sheldon Gelman

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Strangers in a Strange Land: Assessing the Fate of Foreign Nationals Arrested in the United States by State and Local Authorities, Gregory Dean Gisvold

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Reconciling Federal Asset Forfeitures and Drug Offense Sentencing, Sandra Guerra

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Prosecutorial Discretion to Bring a Substantial Assistance Motion Pursuant to a Plea Agreement: Enforcing a Good Faith Standard, Julie Gyurci

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Adapting the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine in Light of United States v. MacDonald & Watson Waste Oil Co., Jeremy D. Heep

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Enforcing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines on Discrimination because of National Origin: The Overextension of English-Only Rules in Garcia v. Spun Steak Co., Cara D. Helper

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A Constitutional Response to the Realities of Intimate Violence: Minnesota's Domestic Homicide Statute, Margaret C. Hobday

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Evidentiary Scope of De Novo Review in ERISA Benefits Litigation after Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. v. Bruch, Robert Mason Hogg

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The New Sophistication in Antitrust, Michael S. Jacobs

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Shh--Maybe in My Backyard--An Equity and Efficiency-Based Critique of SEC Environmental Disclosure Rules and Extraterritorial Environmental Matters, Robert J. Lewis

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Corporate Cooperation, Relationship Management, and the Trialogical Imperative for Corporate Law, John H. Matheson and Brent A. Olson

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Can They Do That--The Due Process and Article III Problems of Proposed Findings of Criminal Contempt in Bankruptcy Court, Richard Murphy

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CERCLA, Causation, and Responsibility, John Copeland Nagle

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Tracing Proceeds to Attorneys' Pockets (and the Dilemma of Paying for Bankruptcy), Steve H. Nickles and Edward S. Adams

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Dziubak v. Mott and the Need to Better Balance the Interests of the Indigent Accused and Public Defenders, Jeffrey H. Rutherford

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Wrongful Birth: False Representations of Women's Reproductive Lives, Shelley A. Ryan

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Scientific Validity, Admissibility, and Mass Torts after Daubert, Joseph Sanders

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Providing an Escape for Inner-City Children: Creating a Federal Remedy for Educational Ills of Poor Urban Schools, Amy J. Schmitz

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Virgin Territory: Margaret Radin's Imagery of Personal Property as the Inviolate Feminine Body, Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder

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Ambulance Chasers Beware: Carley v. Wheeled Coach and the Questionable Expansion of the Government Contractor Defense, Jake Thomas Townsend

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Process and Prediction: A Return to a Fuzzy Model of Pretrial Detention, Jack F. Williams

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Copyrighting the Yellow Pages: Finding Originality in Factual Compilations, Ethan L. Wood

Submissions from 1993

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Rethinking Professor Westbrook's Two Thoughts about Insider Preferences, Peter A. Alces

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A Response to Professor Fellows, Mark L. Ascher

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The 1990 Uniform Probate Code: Older and Better, or More like the Internal Revenue Code, Mark L. Ascher

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Gender Sterotyping in Employment Discrimination: Finding a Balance of Evidence and Causation under Title VII, Tracy L. Bach

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Democracy in the Workplace: Union Representation Elections and Federal Labor law, Craig Becker

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A Tribute to Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold--Preface, William J. Brennan Jr.

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The Corporate Receipt Conundrum: Establishing Access in Copyright Infringement Actions, Stacy Brown

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That Obscure Object of Desire: Hermeneutics and the Autonomous Legal Text, Paul Campos

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Turning RICO on Its Head: Schiffels v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. and the Need to Limit Standing Under 1962(d) to Plaintiffs Who Allege Injuries from Racketeering Acts, Donald W. Cassidy

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State v. Perry: Louisiana's Cure-to-Kill Scheme Forces Death-Row Inmates to Choose between a Life Sentence of Untreated Insanity and Execution, Kristen Wenstrup Crosby

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From Junkyards to Gentrification: Explicating a Right to Protective Zoning in Low-Income Communities of Color, Jon C. Dubin

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Traveling the Road of Probate Reform: Finding the Way to Your Will (A Response to Professor Ascher), Mary Louise Fellows

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A Brief Biography of Judge Richard S. Arnold, John P. Frank and A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.

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Central States v. Personnel, Inc.: When Real Estate Investments Create Personal Liability under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, Susan C. Glen

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Role of Race in Adoption Proceedings: A Constitutional Critique of the Minnesota Preference Statute, Timothy P. Glynn

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Eliminating Unconstitutional Juries: Applying United States v. De Gross to All Heightened Scrutiny Equal Protection Groups in the Exercise of Peremptory Challenges, Dave Harbeck

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Exhaustion of Tribal Remedies in the Lower Courts after National Farmers Union and Iowa Mutual: Toward a Consistent Treatment of Tribal Courts by the Federal Judicial System, Timothy W. Joranko

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Member Bankruptcy under the New Minnesota Limited Liability Company Act: An Executory Contract Analysis, James M. Jorissen

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No More Secrets: Proposed Minnesota State Due Process Requirement that Law Enforcement Officers Electronically Record Custodial Interrogation and Confessions, Ingrid Kane

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Chapter 11's New Ten-Ton Monster: The PBGC and Bankruptcy, Daniel Keating

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Lessons in Confronting Racist Speech: Good Intentions, Bad Results, and Article 4(a) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Michael A.G. Korengold

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Section 43(a), Commercial Falsehood, and the First Amendment: A Proposed Framework, Arien W. Langvardt

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My Colleague--Richard S. Arnold, Donald P. Lay

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The Writ of Habeas Corpus: A Complex Procedure for a Simple Process, Donald P. Lay

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The Mackay Radio Doctrine of Permanent Striker Replacements and the Minnesota Picket Line Peace Act: Questions of Preemption, Michael H. LeRoy

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In re De Laurentiis Entertainment Group: Sacrificing Confirmed Chapter 11 Plans to Delinquently Asserted Setoff Rights, Brett Ludwig

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Unconstitutional Rulemaking: The Civil Justice Reform Act and Separation of Powers, Linda S. Mullenix

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Section 27A of the SEA: An Unplugged Lampf Sheds No Constitutional Light, Patrick T. Murphy

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The Differing Treatment of Efficiency and Competition in Antitrust and Tortious Interference Law, Gary Myers

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No More Times Tables: Risk Multipliers in Attorneys' Fee Awards after In Re Bolar Pharmaceutical Co., Peter-Christian Olivo

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Interest Group Politics, Federalism, and the Uniform Law Process: Some Lessons from the Uniform Commercial Code, Kathleen Patchel

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Prisons Are Dangerous Places: Criminal Recklessness as the Eighth Amendment Standard of Liability in McGill v. Duckworth, Scott Rauser

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Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty, Suzanna Sherry

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Living with the Risk of Backfire: A Response to the Feminist Critiques of Privacy and Equality, Laura W. Stein

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Juggling Shareholder Rights and Strike Suits in Derivative Litigation: The ALI Drops the Bell, Carol B. Swanson

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Compulsory Arbitration of ADA Claims: Disabling the Disabled, Wendy S. Tien

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Kunin v. Benefit Trust Life Insurance Co.: Protecting Employees under ERISA by Constructing Ambiguous Plan Terms against the Insurer, Mark Traynor

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Trading Places: Employer Strategies to Avoid Mandatory Awards of Interest, Liquidated Damages, and Attorney's Fees under the MPPAA, Craig W. Trepanier

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Judge Arnold and Individual Rights, Patricia M. Wald

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Clear Thinking about Insider Preferences: A Reply, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

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Illusion, Illogic, and Injustice: Real-Offense Sentencing and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, David Yellen

Submissions from 1992

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The Evolution of the Hearsay Rule to a Rule of Admission, Ronald J. Allen

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The Deconstitutionalization of the Confrontation Clause: A Proposal for a Prosecutorial Restraint Model, Margaret A. Berger

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Experts as Hearsay Conduits: Confrontation Abuses in Opinion Testimony, Ronald L. Carlson

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Balancing the Buyer's Right to Recover for Precontractual Misstatements and the Seller's Ability to Disclaim Express Warranties, Elizabeth Cumming

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Of Hearsay and Its Analogues, Mirjan Damaska

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The Sentencing Guidelines: Downward Departures Based on a Defendant's Extrordinary Family Ties and Responsibilities, Susan E. Ellingstad

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Stuggling to Stop the Flood of Unreliable Expert Testimony, David L. Faigman

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Jury Compensation of Front Pay under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Brian S. Felton

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Enforcing Antenuptial Contracts in Minnesota: A Practice in Search of a Policy Basis in the Wake of McKee-Johnson v. Johnson, William F. Fraatz

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From the Big Sleep to the Big Heat: The Revival of Theory in Statutory Interpretation, Philip P. Frickey

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Toward a Partial Economic, Game-Theoretic Analysis of Hearsay, Richard D. Friedman

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High Crimes from Misdemeanors: The Collateral Use of Prior, Uncounseled Misdemeanors under the Sixth Amendment, Baldasar and the Federal Sentencing Guidlines, Lily Fu

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An Act-Based Analysis of Immunity and Its Application to Unconstitutional Acts of Court Clerks, Claire E. Harkrider

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Fragments on the Deathwatch, Louise Harmon

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The Hughes Court and the Beginning of the End of the Separate but Equal Doctrine, A.Leon Higginbotham Jr. and William C. Smith

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The Constitutionalization of Hearsay: The Extent to Which the Fifth and Sixth Amendments Permit or Require the Liberalization of the Hearsay Rules, Edward J. Imwinkelried

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The Right to Confrontation: Not a Mere Restraint on Government, Randolph N. Jonakait

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Jurors' Perceptions of Eyewitness and Hearsay Evidence, Margaret Bull Kovera, Roger C. Park, and Steven D. Penrod

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International Extradition, the Principle of Speciality, and Effective Treaty Enforcement, Kenneth E. Levitt

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Corporate Law and the Longterm Shareholder Model of Corporate Governance, John H. Matheson and Brent A. Olson

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Disposing of the Dormant Commerce Clause Barrier: Keeping Waste at Home, Ann R. Mesnikoff

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Juror Decision Making and the Evaluation of Hearsay Evidence, Peter Miene, Roger C. Park, and Eugene Borgida

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Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller

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The Counter-Reformation in Procedural Justice, Linda S. Mullenix

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Understanding Responses to Hearsay: An Extension of the Comparative Analysis, Dale A. Nance

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Fate of Pending Motions on Appeal from Judgment: The Consequences of Minnesota's Rule of Civil Appellate Procedure 104.01, T he, J.Jeff Oxley

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The New Wave of Hearsay Reform Scholarship, Roger C. Park

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Demography and Distrust: An Essay on American Languages, Cultural Pluralism, and Official English, Juan F. Perea

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An Internal Critique of Justice Scalia's Theory of Statutory Interpretation, William D. Popkin

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The Hearsay Rule at Work: Has It Been Abolished De Facto by Judicial Discretion, Myrna S. Raeder

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Researching the Hearsay Rule: Emerging Findings, General Issues, and Future Directions, Richard F. Rakos and Stephan Landsman

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Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and the Post-Trial Reformation of Civil Jury Verdicts, Timothy C. Rank

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Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and Satellite Descramblers: Toward Preventing Statutory Obsolesence, Samuel Rosenstein

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Constitutional Dimensions of Hearsay Reform: Toward a Three-Dimensional Confrontation Clause, Eileen A. Scallen

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Pedro v. Pedro: Consequences for Closely Held Corporations and the At-Will Doctrine in Minnesota, Sandra L. Schlafge

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Eliminating Conflict at the Termination of the Attorney-Client Relationship: A Proposed Standard Governing Property Rights in the Client's File, Brian J. Slovut

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The Right to Have Rights: Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws, Lisa C. Stratton