Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Choice of Law and Legal Evolution: Rethinking the Market for Legal Rules, 139 Public Choice 461-492 (2009)
– Stein on Probate: Administration of Decedents Estates under the Uniform Probate Code as Enacted in Minnesota (Mason Pub. Co., 1st ed., 1976; Butterworth Legal Publishers, 2d ed., 1986; Michie, 3d ed., 1996; LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2004) (editor)
– The Demography of Probate Administration, 15 University of Baltimore Law Review 54 (1985)
– In Pursuit of Excellence: A History of the University of Minnesota Law School (Mason Pub. Co., 1980)
– From Tax-Favored to Tax-Penalized: The Challenge of Estate Planning for Qualified Plan Benefits in the Face of Shifting Federal Tax Policy, 79 Iowa Law Review 1127 (1994)
– The Role of the Attorney in Estate Administration, 68 Minnesota Law Review 1107 (1984)
– The Future of Legal Education, 75 Minnesota Law Review 945 (1991)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part II: The Vance Years -- A Time of Ascendancy, 62 Minnesota Law Review 857 (1978)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part V: The Lockhart Years -- A Time of Achievement and Challenge, 63 Minnesota Law Review 809 (1979)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part I: The Pattee Years -- A Time of Accommodation, 62 Minnesota Law Review 485 (1978)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part IV: The Pirsig Years -- A Time of Transition, 63 Minnesota Law Review 299 (1979)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part III: The Fraser Years -- A Time of Excellence and Innovation, 62 Minnesota Law Review 1161 (1978)
– In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part VI: The Auerbach Years -- A Time of Building, Controversy and Frustration, 63 Minnesota Law Review 1101 (1979)
– Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 30 Hamline Law Review 499 (2007)
– The Future of the Legal Profession, 91 Minnesota Law Review 1 (2006)
– Use of Insurance Proceeds in Irrevocable Trust for Payment of Death Costs, 3 Notre Dame Estate Planning Institute 71 (1979)
– New Survey of Professionals Finds Broad Support for the "Estate Planning Team" Idea, 8 Estate Planning 354 (1981)
– Expanding the Boundaries of Transitional Justice, 22 Ethics & International Affairs 213 (2008) (reviewing Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff, eds., Social Science Research Council, 2007) and What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations (Ruth Rubio-Marin, ed., Social Science Research Council, 2006)) (review essay)
– Probate Administration Study: Some Emerging Conclusions, 9 Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 596 (1974)
– Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference (Oxford University Press, 2009)
– Terror Conflated?, 25 Constitutional Commentary 131 (2008) (reviewing Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts (Oxford University Press, 2007)) (review essay)
– Gendering the Declaration, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 335 (2009)
– The Individual Right of Access to Justice in Times of Crisis: Emergencies, Armed Conflict, and Terrorism, in Access to Justice as a Human Right 57-93 (Francesco Franconi, ed., Oxford University Press, 2007)
– Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal, in Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism 221-239 (Margot Young, Susan Boyd, Gwen Brodsky & Shelagh Day, eds., UBC Press, 2007)
– Foreword, Transitional Justice: (Re)Conceptualising the Field, 3 International Journal of Law in Context 81-88 (2007)
– Underenforcement and Intersectionality: Gendered Aspects of Transition for Women, 1 International Journal of Transitional Justice 338-354 (2007)
– Rights after Revolution: Progress or Backslide after the Good Friday Agreement?, in Human Rights & Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, & Northern Ireland (Eileen F. Babbitt & Ellen L. Lutz, eds., Syracuse University Press, 2009)
– The Battle for Transitional Justice: Hegemony, Iraq and International Law in Judges, Transition, and Human Rights (John Morison, Kieran McEvoy & Gordon Anthony, eds., Oxford University Press, 2007)
– Women, Security, and the Patriarchy of Internationalized Transitional Justice, 31 Human Rights Quarterly 1055 (2009)