Articles, Essays, & Tributes
Client-Centered Legal Education and Licensing
Modern Diploma Privilege: A Path Rather Than a Gate
Minnesota Law Review, Volume 107 Symposium Foreword
Leaving Langdell Behind: Reimagining Legal Education for a New Era
“More than the Numbers”: Empirical Evidence of an Innovative Approach to Admissions
What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis
Law Students Left Behind: Law Schools’ Role in Remedying the Devastating Effects of Federal Education Policy
Teaching Dissents
Secondary Courses Taught by Secondary Faculty: A (Personal) Call to Fully Integrate Skills Faculty and Skills Courses into the Law School Curriculum Ahead of the NextGen Bar Exam
Dethroning Langdell
Notes
In Defense of (Mental) Hearth and Home: Challenges to § 922(g)(4) in the Wake of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen
Freedom to Pray, Not to Protest
Data Breach Class Actions: How Article III Standing Analysis Should Evolve After TransUnion, LLC v. Ramirez
Headnotes
Tattoos, Norms, and Implied Licenses
The Ethics of Abortion Ban Exceptions: Is the “Life-Threatening” Exception Threatening Lives?
Interstate Cannabis Compacts: The Road to a Regional Legal Cannabis Economy
The Battle for the Soul of the GDPR: Clashing Decisions of Supervisory Authorities Highlight Potential Limits of Procedural Data Protection
De Novo Blog
By: Carly Heying, Volume 107 Staff Member On January 13, 2023, after urging by the U.S. Solicitor General and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),[1] the Supreme Court agreed to take up a pair of consolidated False Claims Act cases addressing “whether and when a defendant’s contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct…
By: Dahlia Wilson, Volume 107 Staff Member In the 2022–23 term, the Supreme Court is faced with two seminal cases regarding universities’ uses of “affirmative action”—a.k.a. the consideration of race—in their admissions practices. Both Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina[1] and Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College[2]…
By: Lucy Chin, Volume 107 Staff Member A small minority of the 1.3 million lawyers in the country engage in work that explicitly concerns community-based advocacy and movement lawyering.[1] And yet, our profession—like most in the past few years—has been unable to avoid confronting fundamental questions about our role in social justice movements.[2] In the…
By: Toph Beach, Volume 107 Staff Member On June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, striking down a New York firearm restriction and pioneering a new test for Second Amendment cases.[1] Under Bruen, gun regulations must be “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”[2]…
By: Chelsea M. Trudgeon, Volume 107 Staff Member I. MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT RULINGS In October 2021, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued decisions in Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center[1] and Bierbach v. Digger’s Polaris[2] addressing reimbursement of medical marijuana under workers’ compensation claims.[3] Under the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act, an employer is liable for an…