Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
To find earlier publications during a faculty member's tenure at the University of Minnesota Law School, search by faculty member and/or by words in the publications' citations using the search box on the right. Additional information can be found on the faculty biography pages via the faculty directory.
– Traveling the Road of Probate Reform: Finding the Way to Your Will (A Response to Professor Ascher), 77 Minnesota Law Review 659 (1993)
– Wills and Trusts: "The Kingdom of the Fathers," 10 Law and Inequality 137 (1991)
– Pride and Prejudice: A Study of Connections, 7 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 455 (2000)
– The Law of Legitimacy: An Instrument of Procreative Power, 3 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 495 (1993)
– A Feminist Interpretation of the Law of Legitimacy, 7 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 195 (1998)
– The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women, 1 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 335 (1998)
– Bias & Ethics, in Litigation Ethics: Course Materials for Continuing Legal Education (John Q. Barrett & Bruce A. Green, eds., American Bar Association Section of Litigation, 2000)
– Moral Judgment of Law Students Across Three Years: Influences of Gender, Political Ideology and Interest in Altruistic Law Practice, 45 South Texas Law Review 891 (2004)
– Learning the Law by Avoiding It in the Process: And Learning From the Students What They Don't Get in Law School, 58 Journal of Legal Education 341 (2008)
– Global Error and Legal Truth, 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 535 (2009)
– The Social, Psychological, and Political Causes of Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System, 39 Crime and Justice 273 (2010)
– Sentencing and Comparative Law Theory, in Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context: Essays in Honour of Professor Mirjan Damaska (John D. Jackson, Máximo Langer & Peter Tillers, eds., Hart Publishing, 2008)
– John Austin and Constructing Theories of Law, 24 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 431 (2011)
– Principle and Contradiction in the Criminal Law: Motives and Criminal Liability, in Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (Antony Duff, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1998)
– An Empirical Assessment of the Potential for Will Substitutes to Improve State Intestacy Statutes, 85 Indiana Law Journal 409 (2010)
– Developing U.S. Oversight Strategies for Nanobiotechnology: Learning from Past Oversight Experiences, 37 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 688-705 (2009)
– Exploring a Feminist Theory of Harm in the Context of Conflicted and Post-Conflict Societies, 35 Queen's Law Journal 219 (2009)
– Commentary: The Trajectory of Complex Business Contracting in Latin America, 83 Chicago-Kent Law Review 179 (2008) (Symposium on Law and Economic Development in Latin America: A Comparative Approach to Legal Reform)
– What Cognitive Psychologists Should Find Interesting about Tax, 17 Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 180 (2010)
– Negative Dimensions of Identity: A Research Agenda for Law and Public Policy, 9 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 643 (2008) (Symposium on Self and Other: Cognitive Perspectives on Trust, Empathy and the Self)
– Who Were the Villains in the Subprime Crisis, and Why It Matters, 4 Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal 323 (2010) (Symposium on The Credit Crash of 2008: Regulation within Economic Crisis)
– Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Why Did Rating Agencies Do Such a Bad Job Rating Subprime Securities?, 71 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 585 (2010) (Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of the SEC)
– Rationality in an Unjust World: A Research Agenda, 35 Queen's Law Journal 185 (2009) (Symposium on Emerging Paradigms of Rationality)
– Faculty Services in Academic Law Libraries: Emerging Roles for the Collection Development Librarian, 96 Law Library Journal 283 (2004)
– Does Form Follow Function? Academic Law Libraries Organizational Structures for Collection Development, 100 Law Library Journal 59 (2008) (recipient of the 2007 AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award)
– Prescribing a Legislative Response: Educators, Physicians, and Psychotropic Medication for Children, 22 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 72 (2005)
– Social Networks, Self-Denial, and Median Preferences: Conformity as an Evolutionary Strategy, 37 Journal of Socio-Economics 1319-1327 (2008)
– Role-Reversibility, Stochastic Ignorance, and Social Cooperation, 37 Journal of Socio-Economics 1061-1075 (2008)
– Substituting Complements, 2 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 333-347 (2006), reprinted in Commons and Anticommons (Michael Heller, ed., Edward Elgar, 2009)