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Fostering Client Altruism and the Common Good in the Practice of Law: Learning from Emerging Movements in Business and Economics
Lawyers have a special role in the United States. When the drafters of the U. S. Constitution began with the idea that its purpose was “to form a more perfect union [and] establish justice,” lawyers were inserted at the center…
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Refunding the Community: What Defunding MPD Means and Why It Is Urgent and Realistic
“(The police) are a very real menace to every black cat alive in this country. And no matter how many people say, ‘You’re being paranoid when you talk about police brutality’—I know what I’m talking about. I survived those streets…
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The Demand Side of Sex Trafficking in Minnesota: The Who, Where, and Why—And What We Can Do About It
“I took only one course in business management and economics, but it seems pretty basic to me. Without customers, you don’t have any business and you will fold Police have attacked prostitution with the wrong method. They’ve gone after the…
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Online Dispute Resolution: Mediating in the Time of COVID-19
By Adrienne Baker It has been one year since our law school transitioned entirely online. The phrases “novel coronavirus” and “social distancing,” once peculiar word pairings, quickly became ubiquitous, upending our expectations for the foreseeable future. However, it’s clear that…
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The Potential to Increase Efficiency in Immigration Courts through Broader Prosecutorial Discretion as Exemplified by the Mayorkas and Doyle Memos
Immigration is an area of law prone to frustrating backlogs in case processing. On April 3, 2022, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Principal Legal Advisor Kerry Doyle published a memorandum (Doyle Memo) on prosecutorial priorities and discretion. The Doyle Memo…
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A Pleasure to Burn: How First Amendment Jurisprudence on Book Banning Bolsters White Supremacy
Public school libraries are facing an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books from their shelves. The mounting pressure levied by parents, community members, and political groups against school administrators threatens to overwhelm attempts to enhance students’ access to information—particularly…
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The Minnesota Stand Down Model: Bringing Stand Down Courts to Rural Communities
Melvin, a Vietnam War veteran, approached the small room tucked at the back of the Army National Guard Armory in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, a town of 13,000 in the northwest of the state. Melvin’s social worker at the Department of…
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Legal Strategies for Defending the Combat Veteran in Criminal Court
In early November 2015, we stood in a Mankato, Minnesota, courtroom and held our breaths as a jury announced the fate of our client, a man we had come to love. Levi Minissale is a former Marine who never should…
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Child Advocacy Studies (CAST): A National Movement to Improve the Undergraduate and Graduate Training of Child Protection Professionals
There is a significant and growing body of research documenting the poor quality of undergraduate and graduate training of professionals in the criminal justice, child protection, medical, and mental health fields on child abuse. Unless this training is received on…
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An Invitation to Explore Online Legal Education and Strategically Realign Legal Education
The United States Constitution’s elemental precept, “form[ing] a more perfect Union,” launched from citizens’ longing to “establish Justice.” One of this country’s top societal dilemmas is that countless Americans cannot pay the expenses of retaining professional legal help when they…
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Damages for Tortious Harm to Pets: Minnesota’s Market Value Approach Severely Undercompensates Plaintiffs
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has experienced immense loss: loss of normalcy, loss of human interaction, and loss of good health to name a few. For an estimated twenty-three million American households, however, it was also…
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Entrenched Racial Hierarchy: Educational Inequality from the Cradle to the LSAT
For my contribution to this special issue of the Minnesota Law Review, I will attempt to situate the problem of black underrepresentation at America’s law schools within the broader context of racial hierarchy in American society. The former has generated…
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The Reconstruction of Mediation: A Shift Toward Cultural Competency and Social Sophistication
In January 2019, pop culture icon Jay-Z brought attention to a critical issue that has existed for decades but has rarely been addressed—that is, the lack of diverse arbitrators and the effect this has on fundamental fairness. While Jay-Z was…
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Storytelling and Truth-Telling: Personal Reflections on the Native American Experience in Law Schools
In January of 2021, the American Association of Law Schools (“AALS”) theme was Freedom, Equality and the Common Good. The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section of the AALS embraced the theme and announced a call for personal reflections incorporating…
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Unburdening the Farm: A Dormant Commerce Clause Challenge to Conflicting Standards in Agricultural Production
Under the guise of a health and safety rationale, a recent trend has seen individual states regulating aspects of agricultural production in a way that applies equally to products produced in state and out of state. These regulations, such as…
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Civil Procedure: Statutory Interpretation: Compensating for Ambiguities in the Workers’ Compensation Act—Schmitz v. U.S. Steel Corp.
In Schmitz v. U.S. Steel Corp., a divided Minnesota Supreme Court held that the state constitutional right to a jury trial applied to individuals bringing suit under the retaliatory discharge provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA). The court determined,…
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Drug Pricing—The Next Compliance Waterloo
“Drug prices are too high.” With these five simple words, Alex Azar II, former president of Lilly USA LLC, and now the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, captured the essence of the drug pricing war. It is…
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The Performance Right—A World in Transition
17 U.S.C. § 106 states: [T]he owner of [a] copyright . . . has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion…
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Qualified Immunity: When Clearly Established Law is “as Clear as Mud”
By Kaleb Byars* Introduction The phrase “as clear as mud” is an age-old idiom used to describe an inexplicable phenomenon, such as a legal principle that defies logic and reason. This article identifies one such legal principle that exists in…
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This is Minnesota: An Analysis of Disparities in Black Student Enrollment at the University of Minnesota Law School and the Effects of Systemic Barriers to Black Representation in the Law
Lawyers often occupy powerful positions in the highest levels of our government and economy. Whether drafting legislation, prosecuting, or defending crimes, representing indigent clients in housing court, or finalizing corporate mergers, attorneys influence and operate within one of the most…
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Close to Zero: The Reliance on Minimum Blood Quantum Requirements to Eliminate Tribal Citizenship in the Allotment Acts and the Post-Adoptive Couple Challenges to the Constitutionality of ICWA
[I]s there at all a threshold before you can call, under the statute, a child an “Indian child”? 3/256ths? . . . I’m just wondering is 3/256ths close—close to zero? —Chief Justice Roberts, Oral Argument in Adoptive Couple v. Baby…
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Changing Hearts, Minds, and Structures: Advancing Equity and Health Equity in State Government Policies, Operations, and Practices in Minnesota and Other States
The population of Minnesota is rapidly becoming more racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse. People of color (those self-identifying as one or more races other than white and/or Latino) who made up 14 percent of the population in 2005 will increase…
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Sanctuary and Harboring in Trump’s America
“Can we doubt that only a Divine Providence placed this land, this island of freedom, here as a refuge for all those people in the world who yearn to breathe freely?” – Ronald W. Reagan As a presidential candidate, Donald…
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Managing Cumulative Risk
“Life is messy and full of compounding consequences.” Although environmental law professor Sanne Knudsen was writing about the cumulative public health risk of exposure to chemicals and pesticides, these words could just as easily apply to the various public health…
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Minnesota’s Education System Is Unconstitutional:Will Someone Bring a Compelling Case?
For several decades, Minnesota commissions, task forces, and advocacy groups have warned that our education system has been failing to meet twenty-first century challenges for students who come to school with educational disadvantages. Three constitutional challenges have been made to…