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 1939

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Federal Appellate Practice as Affected by the New Rules of Civil Procedure, Werner Ilsen and Robert E. Hone

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Popular Legislation in California, Max Radin

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Recent Developments of French Labor Law, Stefan A. Riesenfeld

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Effective Time of an Acceptance, Edward S. Stimson

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Partisan Politics and Federal Judgeship Impeachment since 1903, Jacobus TenBroek

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Retail Responsibility--A Reply, John Barker Waite

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A Study of the Judicial Attitude toward Trade Unions and Labor Legislation, J.Louis Warm

Submissions from 1938

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Jury Trial in Will Cases in Minnesota, Edward S. Bade

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Common-Law Marriage in Minnesota: A Problem in Social Security, Thomas Clifford Billig and James Phillip Lynch

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Blood-Grouping Tests and More Cultural Lag, Steuart Henderson Britt

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Goverment and Its Relationship to Price Standards in the Milk Industry, Richard C. Cadwallader

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A Plea for Withdrawal of Constitutional Privilege from the Criminal, Ernest C. Carman

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Comparison of Business Corporation Law of Minnesota and Delaware, Joseph H. Colman and John F. Finn Jr.

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The Riddle of the Palsgraf Case, Thomas A. Cowan

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The Governor's Constitutional Powers of Appointment and Removal, John Murdoch Dawley

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The Federal Statutes--Their History and Use, Ralph H. Dwan and Ernest R. Feidler

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The Alien's Right to Work, David Fellman

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The Tax Provisions of the Social Security Act, Ralph A. Gilchrist

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A Synthesis of the Law of Misrepresentation, Fowler V. Harper and Mary Coate McNeely

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A Creditor's Rights in Securities Held by His Surety, Edward G. Jennings

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Corporate Reorganization and a Ministry of Justice, Edward H. Levi

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Legislative Neutrality in the United States, C.H. McLaughlin

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Manslaughter by Motorists, James J. Robinson

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Is Equity Decadent, William F. Walsh

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Reinstatement of Sit-Down Strikers, George B. Weisiger

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Causes of Action Blended, Carl C. Wheaton

Submissions from 1937

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Quasi Contractual Recovery in the Law of Sales, Arthur Anderson

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Cumulative Voting at Elections of Directors of Corporations, Harlowe E. Bowes and Ledlie A. De Bow

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Blood-Grouping Tests and the Law: The Problem of Cultural Lag, Steuart Henderson Britt

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The Legal Status of Members of the Officers' Reserve Corps, Elbridge Colby

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Liability and Compensation for Automobile Accidents, Francis Deak

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The Wagner Labor Act Cases, Jacob Geffs and William M. Hepburn

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Trespassers in the Sky, Howard H. Hackley

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Some Legal Aspects of Interstate Crime, J.Edgar Hoover

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The Multiple Consequences of a Single Criminal Act, Frank E. Horack Jr.

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Tort Liability of Administrative Officers, Edward G. Jennings

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Fraud: Misrepresentations of Opinion, W.Page Keeton

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What Can a Riparian Proprietor Do, Stanley V. Kinyon

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Nebraska's New Legislature, Lane W. Lancaster

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Class Suits and the Federal Rules, Hiram H. Lesar

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The Minnesota Labor Disputes Injunction Act, H.L. McClintock

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The Federal Judiciary: An Analysis of Proposed Revisions, Lynn I. Perrigo

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Knowledge or Belief as a Prerequisite to Condonation in the Law of Divorce, F.Eugene Reader

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Reciprocal and Retaliatory Legislation in the American States, Joseph R. Starr

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Corporations Eligible for Relief under Section 77B, Lyman Mark Tondel Jr.

Submissions from 1936

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The Writ of Prohibition to Court Christian, Norma Adams

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The Taxation of Real Estate Subject to Mortgage and Other Incumbrances, Robert C. Brown

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Jurisdiction or Venue, L.Dale Coffman

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Mistake and Statutes of Limitation, John P. Dawson

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Loss Distribution by Comparative Negligence, Charles O. Gregory

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Clauses in Sales Contracts Protecting the Seller against Impairment of the Buyer's Credit, Harold C. Havighurst

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An Outline of Municipal Bond Procedure in Minnesota, Charles B. Howard

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Removal from Public Office in Minnesota, Edward G. Jennings

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Some Constitutional Limitations on State Sales Taxes, Laurence M. Jones

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The Right of an Employee Discharged for Cause, Herbert D. Laube

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The Minnesota Court on Proximate Cause, William L. Prosser

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The Procedural Effect of Res Ipsa Loquitur, William L. Prosser

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Full Faith and Credit in a Federal System, G.W.C. Ross

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Recent Economic Developments in Corporate Reorganizations, Stanley Law Sabel

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The Rule against Retroactive Legislation: A Basic Principle of Jurisprudence, Elmer E. Smead

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Venue under the Corporate Reorganizations Act, Lyman Mark Tondel Jr.

Submissions from 1935

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Bringing in Third Parties by the Defendant, Dale E. Bennett

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Circuity of Lien--A Problem in Priorities, Carville D. Benson Jr.

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Administrative Commissions and the Judicial Power, Ray A. Brown

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Constitutional Problems Arising from Service of Process on Foreign Corporations, Maurice S. Culp

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Workmen's Compensation and the Conflict of Laws--The Restatement and Other Recent Developments, Ralph H. Dwan

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The New Minnesota Probate Code, William L. Eagleton

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Tort Liability of Manufacturers, L.W. Feezer and Dwight Campbell Jr.

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The Contemplation Rule as a Limitation upon Damages for Breach of Contract, Charles T. McCormick

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Suggested Limitations of the Public Policy Doctrine, Charles B. Nutting

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The Massachusetts Procedure Relative to the Sanity of Defendants in Criminal Cases--The Briggs Law, Winfred Overholser

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The Torrens System of Land Title Registration, R.G. Patton

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Summary Probate Proceedings, Albin S. Pearson

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Rules Governing the Allowance of the Privilege against Self-Incrimination, Max P. Rapacz

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Rights of Preferred Shareholders in Excess of Preference, Jonathan H. Rowell

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The Parol Evidence Rule and Warranties of Goods Sold, John S. Strahorn Jr.

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Wage Assignment Problem, The, Albert F. Strasburger Jr.

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The Basis for Liability for Defamation by Radio, Lawrence Vold

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Report of the Special Committee of the Hennepin County Bar Association Appointed to Study Title Insurance, Sumner B. Young, William E. MacGregor, and P.L. Solether

Submissions from 1934

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The Degree of Danger and the Degree of Difficulty of Removal of the Danger as Factors in Attractive Nuisance Cases, Ralph S. Bauer

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The Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, Edwin M. Borchard

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Spendthrift Trusts in Minnesota, Charles Bunn

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Social and Economic Control through Federal Taxation, Robert E. Cushman

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The Constitutional Theory of the National Industrial Recovery Act, Oliver P. Field

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The Insurance Trust as Non-Testamentary Disposition, Orville F. Grahame

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Agriculture and the Bankruptcy Act, John Hanna

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Industrial Combinations and the Law in the Eighteenth Century, W.S. Holdsworth

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Gas and Electricity in Interstate Commerce, Robert L. Howard

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The Relationship of the Principles of Exclusionary Rules of Evidence to the Problem of Proof, Mason Ladd

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The 1934 Edition of the Federal Revenue Act, Charles L.B. Lowndes

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The Current of Commerce: A Note on the Commerce Clause and the National Industrial Recovery Act, F.D.G. Ribble

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Conservation of Natural Resources and Legal Control, Furman Rinehart

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The Minnesota State Income Tax, Henry Rottschaefer

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The Corporate Reorganizations Act, Stanley Law Sabel

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Unauthorized Expenditures by Bondholders' Protective Committees, Stanley Law Sabel

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The Exemption of Property from Taxation in the United States, Claude W. Stimson

Submissions from 1933

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The Scientific Detection of Crime, Newman F. Baker and Fred E. Inbau

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Corporate Reorganization: Equity vs. Bankruptcy, Thomas Clifford Billig

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Corporate Reorganization Some Recent Developments Some Recent Developments, Thomas Clifford Billig

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The Nature of the Income Tax, Robert C. Brown