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.
– The Importance of Deceptive Practice Enforcement in Financial Institution Regulation, 30 Pace Law Review 279 (2009) (Symposium on Real Property, Mortgages, and the Economy: A Call for Ethics and Reforms)
– Of Spoil Pits and Swimming Pools: Reconsidering the Measure of Damages for Construction Contracts, 75 Minnesota Law Review 1445 (1991)
– Goldberg's Forgotten Footnote: Is There a Due Process Right to a Hearing Prior to the Termination of Welfare Benefits When the Only Issue Raised Is a Question of Law?, 64 Minnesota Law Review 1107 (1980)
– Metaphysics, Moral Sense, and the Pragmatism of the Law, 26 Law and History Review 177-185 (2008)
– Discovery in Labor Arbitration, 72 Minnesota Law Review 1281 (1988)
– Researching Labor Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment, Employee Advocate: A Publication of the National Employment Lawyers Association 67 (2004); also available at LLRX.com (significantly revised version of the bibliography published in 91 Law Library Journal 367 (1999)
– The Process of Process: The Historical Development of Procedure in Labor Arbitration, Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators 99 (Paul F. Gerhart & Stephen F. Befort, eds., BNA, 2006)
– Workplace ADR Simulations and Teacher's Guide (West Group, 1st ed., 2000; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2005)
– Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs (American Bar Association, 2d ed., 2006) (principal contributor) (with others)
– Goliath Has the Slingshot: Public Benefit and Private Enforcement of Minnesota Consumer Protection Laws, 33 William Mitchell Law Review 163 (2006)
– Teaching Students How to Read Statutes Critically, in Teaching the Law School Curriculum (Steven Friedland & Gerald F. Hess, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2004)
– Reflections on the Antitrust Modernization Commission's Report and Recommendations Relating to the Antitrust/IP Interface, 53 Antitrust Bulletin 745 (2008)
– Statutes of Limitations in Minnesota Choice of Law: The Problematic Return of the Substance-Procedure Distinction, 71 Minnesota Law Review 363 (1986)
– Alternative Resolution of Employment Discrimination Claims: American and Australian Experiences: Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools Section on Employment Discrimination Law, 5 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 603 (2001)
– The Story of NLRB v. Gissel Packing: The Practical Limits of Paternalism, in Labor Law Stories 191 (Laura J. Cooper & Catherine L. Fisk, eds., Foundation Press, 2005)
– Controlling the Arbitration Hearing: Introduction, Proceedings of the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators 285 (Patrick Halter & Paul D. Staudohar, eds., BNA, 2009)
– Statutory Fraud Laws, in Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook (Edward T. Wahl, ed., Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 2008; 2d ed., 2009)
– Unlocking the Mysteries of Holy Trinity: Spirit, Letter, and History in Statutory Interpretation, 100 Columbia Law Review 901 (2000)
– Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practice Regulation in Minnesota (Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 1st ed., 2007; 2d ed., 2009) (editor)
– Introduction, in Law and Morality xi-xvii (Brian Bix & Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Ashgate, 2005)
– Introduction, in 1 Philosophy of Law: Critical Concepts in Philosophy 1-18 (Brian Bix, ed., Routledge, 2006)
– Will versus Reason: Truth in Natural Law, Positive Law, and Legal Theory, in Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence 208-231 (Kurt Pritzl, ed., Catholic University of America Press, 2010)
– Contracts, in The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice 251-279 (Franklin G. Miller & Alan Wertheimer, eds., Oxford University Press, 2010)
– Some Reflections on Methodology in Jurisprudence, in Problemas contemporáneos de la filosofía del derecho 67-96 (Enrique Caceres, Imer B. Flores, Javier Saldañq & Enrique Villanueva, eds., UNAM, 2005); translated into Italian, 8 Ars Interpretandi 397 (2003); translated into Spanish, 26 Doxa 609 (2003)
– Introduction, in Jerome Frank, Law & the Modern Mind (Transaction Publishers, 2009), reprinted in Classic Writings in Law and Society (A. Javier Trevino, ed., 2d ed. revised and expanded, Transaction Publishers, 2011)
– Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 62-103 (Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro, eds., Kenneth Einar Himma, assoc. ed., Oxford University Press, 2002), reprinted in Philosophy of Law (Joel Feinberg & Jules Coleman, eds., Wadsworth, 6th ed., 2000 & 7th ed., 2004); translated into Turkish, 6 Dokuz Eylul University Law Faculty Journal 291-343 (2004)
– Cautions and Caveats for the Application of Wittgenstein to Legal Theory, in Law and Social Justice: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy 217-229 (Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & David Shier, eds., MIT Press, 2005)
– The ALI Principles and Agreements: Seeking a Balance Between Status and Contract, in Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution 372-391 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006)
– On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy, in On Philosophy in American Law 99-105 (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009), translated into Chinese, Archives for Legal Philosophy and Sociology of Law, vol. 14 (Yong Liu Zheng ed., Peking University Press, 2009)
– Law, Citizenship, and Personhood in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Borders of Belonging, in Cambridge History of Law in America (Michael Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2008)