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 1989

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English-Only Rules and Innocent Employers: Clarifying National Origin Discrimiation and Disparate Impact Theory under Title VII, Linda M. Mealey

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Hodder v. Goodyear: End of the Road for the Useful Life Defense, Keith Moheban

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The Objectification of Debtor-Creditor Relations, Steve H. Nickels

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GATT--Legal Application of Safeguards in the Context of Regional Trade Arrangements and Its Implications for the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, Ruth E. Olson

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Suppose You Want to Depose Opposing Counsel: Shelton v. American Motors Corp., Brian R. Pioske

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Monopoly Sports Leagues, Stephen F. Ross

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Great Expectations of Privacy: A New Model for Fourth Amendment Protection, Brian J. Serr

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Williams v. Ward: Compromising the Constitutional Right to Prompt Determination of Probable Cause upon Arrest, Jane H. Settle

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Forensic Rhetoric and Irving Younger, John E. Simonett

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In the Shadow of Plessy: A Portrait of McCants Stewart, Afro-American Legal Pioneer, J.Clay Smith Jr.

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A Tribute to Irving Younger, Robert A. Stein

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Begging to Defer: OSHA and the Problem of Interpretive Authority, Tracy N. Tool

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Irving Younger, Jon R. Waltz

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The Supoena Power: Pennoyer's Last Vestige, Rhonda Wasserman

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Notice to Decedents' Creditors, Thomas L. Waterbury

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Irving Younger, Louise Weinberg

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A Functional Analysis of Executory Contracts, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

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In Memory of Irving Younger--Lawyer, Judge, and Teacher, Henry Woods

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Infringement of the Exclusive Right to Prepare Dreivative Works: Reducing Uncertainty, Michael Wurzer

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Prosecuting, Irving Younger

Submissions from 1988

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The Silent Opposition of Professors and Graduate Students to Preferential Affirmative Action Programs: 1969 and 1975, Carl A. Auerbach

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Copyright Protection for Computer Screen Displays, Jeffrey R. Benson

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Uniform Commercial Code: Article 2A--Leases: Structuring Priorities of Competing Claimants to Leased Property, Linda L. Boss

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Paradox Lost, F.H. Buckley

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Discovery in Labor Arbitration, Laura J. Cooper

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Forum Selection Clauses in Light of the Erie Doctrine and Federal Common Law: Stewart Organizations v. Ricoh Corporation, Julia L. Erickson

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Legal Pragmatism and the Constitution, Daniel A. Farber

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A Tale of Two Habeas, Barry Friedman

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Free Riders and the Greedy Gadfly: Examining Aspects of Shareholder Litigation as an Exercise in Integrating Ethical Regulation and Laws of General Applicability, Theresa A. Gabaldon

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Morrison-Knudsen Co. v. CHG International: The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation's Authority to Adjudicate Creditor Claims against Its Receiverships, Ruth E. Gaube

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Jury Trials in Bankruptcy: Obeying the Commands of Article III and the Seventh Amendment, S.Elizabeth Gibson

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Redefining the Antitrust Labor Exemption, Daniel J. Gifford

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The Confrontation Clause, the Hearsay Rule, and Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions: The State of the Relationship, Michael H. Graham

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Conflict or Double Deterrence--FLSA Protection of Illegal Aliens and the Immigration Reform and Control Act, L.Tracy Harris

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Reforming GATT Adjudication Procedures: The Lessons of the DISC Case, Robert E. Hudec

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The Logic and Antilogic of Secret Rights, D.H. Kaye

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Legislative Facts and Similar Things: Deciding Disputed Premise Facts, Robert E. Keeton

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The Federal Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury of the Offense of Driving While Intoxicated, Douglas E. Lahammer

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The Deductibility of Fixed Donations Made to Churches as Charitable Contributions under the Internal Revenue Code: Staples v. Commissioner, David C. Linder

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Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. v. Argentine Republic: An Alien Tort Statute Exception to Foreign Sovereign Immunity, Teresa M. O'Toole

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Federal Questions and the Human Rights Paradigm, Kenneth C. Randall

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Amending a Statute of Limitations for 42 U.S.C. 1983: More Than a Half Measure of Uniformity, Paul Rathburn

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The Measure of an Injunction: A Principle to Replace Balancing the Equities and Tailoring the Remedy, David S. Schoenbrod

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Reflections on Context and the Constitution, Louis Michael Seidman

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Creditors' Rights against Participants in a Leveraged Buyout, Emily L. Sherwin

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Media Liability for Physical Injury Resulting from the Negligent Use of Words, Gerald R. Smith

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The Lingering Problem with the Specificity Test in United States Countervailing Duty Law, James D. Southwick

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Controlling Securities Fraud: Proposed Liability Standards for Controlling Persons under the 1933 and 1934 Securities Act, Nancy C. Staudt

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A Return to Fourth Amendment Basics: Undoing the Mischief of Camara and Terry, Scott E. Sundby

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The Ethical Dilemmas of Lawyers on Teams, Mary Twitchell

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Toward Adoption of State Law as the Federal Rule of Decision in Cases Involving Voluntary Federal Creditors, Aaron D. Weiner

Submissions from 1987

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Copyright Protection for Citations to a Law Reporter: West Publishing Co. v. Mead Data Central, Inc., William L. Anderson

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Bonfield on State Administrative Rulemaking: A Critique, Carl A. Auerbach

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Introduction to Gil Kujovich's Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the Black Public College: The Era of Separate but Equal, Derrick Bell

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The Saturnization of American Plants: Infringement or Expansion of Workers' Rights, Lori M. Beranek

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Houghton v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co.: A Narrow Interpretation of the Scope Provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act Threatens Consumer Protection, Mary A. Bernard

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Larimore v. Comptroller of the Currency: Agency-Ordered Liability of Bank Directors and Officers under 12 U.S.C. 1818(b)(1), Michelle Culligan

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On the Accelerating Rate and Decreasing Durability of Tax Reform, Richard L. Doernberg and Fred S. McChesney

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Brilliance Revisited, Daniel A. Farber

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Toxic Causation, Daniel A. Farber

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Privatizing Securities Disputes through the Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements, C.Edward Fletcher III

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The Former Client's Disqualification Gambit: A Bad Move in Pursuit of an Ethical Anomaly, Steven H. Goldberg

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Civil RICO Reform: The Basis for Compromise, Michael Goldsmith

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Antitrust Policy, Restricted Distribution, and the Market for Exclusionary Rights, Herbert Hovenkamp

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Transcending the Ostensible: Some Reflections on the Nature of Litigation between Governments, Robert E. Hudec

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Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the Black Public College: The Era of Separate but Equal, Gil Kujovich

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The Supreme Court and Commercial Speech: New Words with an Old Message, Donald E. Lively

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Must Clergy Tell--Child Abuse Reporting Requirements versus the Clergy Privilege and Free Exercise of Religion, Mary Harter Mitchell

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Setting Farmers Free: Righting the Unintended Anomaly of UCC Section 9-312(2), Steve H. Nickles

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Education, Intelligence, and Character in Judges, John T. Noonan Jr.

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Republicans Only Need Apply: Patronage Hiring and the First Amendment in Avery v. Jennings, Thomas A. Pentalion

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The Judicial Role in Intergovernmental Land Use Disputes: The Case against Balancing, Laurie Reynolds

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Legislative Enforcement of Equal Protection, Stephen F. Ross

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Legal Disagreement and Negotiation in a Government of Laws: The Case of Executive Privilege Claims against Congress, Peter M. Shane

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An Essay Concerning Toleration, Suzanna Sherry

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Forrester v. White: Personal Consequences of Personnel Decisions: Extending Judicial Immunity to Employment Discrimination by Judges, Tracy M. Smith

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Secret Rights, Girardeau A. Spann

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Life on the District of Columbia Circuit: Literally and Figuratively Halfway between the Capitol and the White House, Patricia M. Wald

Submissions from 1986

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Securities Fraud: The Tax Benefit Offset Rule of Damages in Securities Litigation, Karin J. Birkeland

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Protective Orders and the Use of Discovery Materials Following Seattle Times, Diane L. Bratvold

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Eligibilty for Copyright Protection: A Search for Principled Standards, Ralph S. Brown

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Rationality, Accident, and Priority under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, David Gray Carlson

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Statutes of Limitations in Minnesota Choice of Law: The Problematic Return of the Substance-Procedure Distinction, Laura Cooper

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Judicial, Legislative, and Administrative Lawmaking: A Proposed Research Service for the Supreme Court, Kenneth Culp Davis

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Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction and the Power to Enjoin the IRS, Deborah A. Dyson

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Case Comments/Cases Commented Upon, Minn. L. Rev. Editorial Board

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The Case against Brilliance, Daniel A. Farber

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The Constitutionality of Legislative Committee Suspension of Administrative Rules: The Case of Minnesota, Philip P. Frickey

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Unclean Hands and Self-Inflicted Wounds: The Significance of Plaintiff Conduct in Actions for Misrepresentation under Rule 10b-5, Theresa A. Gabaldon

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Shielding Rape Victims in the State and Federal Courts: A Proposal for the Second Decade, Harriett R. Galvin

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Private Causes of Action under the Reporting Rules of the Consumer Product Safety Act, William R. Goetz

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Horizontal Mergers, Competitors, and Antitrust Standing under Section 16 of the Clayton Act: Fruitless Searches for Antitrust Injury, John F. Hartmann

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Of Evidence and Equal Protection: The Unconstitutionality of Excluding Government Agents' Statements Offered as Vicarious Admissions against the Prosecution, Edward J. Imwinkelried

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The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984: A Swamp or Firm Ground, Robert W. Kastenmeier and Michael J. Remington

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Software and Semiconductors: Why Are We Confused, John A. Kidwell

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Confrontation and Hearsay: Exemptions from the Constitutional Unavailability Requirement, Laird C. Kirkpatrick

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Cure after Breach of Contract under the Restatement(Second) of Contracts: An Analytical Comparison with the Uniform Commercial Code, William H. Lawrence

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Individual Responsibility for Assisting the Nazis in Persecuting Civilians, Stephen J. Massey

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Using Judgement as Evidence, Hiroshi Motomura

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Hearsay Rule and the Stability of Verdicts: A Response to Professor Nesson, The, Roger Park