Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Researching Labor Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment, 91 Law Library Journal 367 (1999)
– The Story of Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892): Spirit and History in Statutory Interpretation, in Statutory Interpretation Stories (William N. Eskridge, Jr., Philip P. Frickey & Elizabeth Garrett, eds., Foundation Press, 2011)
– Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights (LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2009)
– Viewing September 11 through the Lens of History, 89 Minnesota Law Review 1437 (2005) (reviewing September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Mary L. Dudziak, ed., Duke University Press, 2003)) (review essay)
– Disclosure, Endorsement, and Identity in Social Marketing, 2009 University of Illinois Law Review 1105 (2009)
– International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process (LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2009)
– Steve Block: A Teacher to Us All, 69 Minnesota Law Review 724 (1985)
– The Illegality of Bad Grammar, 6 Constitutional Commentary 5 (1989), revised version in 2 Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 159 (1991)
– Symposium Foreword: The Low-Wage Worker: Legal Rights - Legal Realities, 92 Minnesota Law Review 1289 (2008)
– Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practice Regulation in Minnesota (Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 1st ed., 2007; 2d ed., 2009) (editor)
– Successful Legal Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (West Group, 1st ed., 2003; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2006; 3d ed., 2010)
– Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs (American Bar Association, 2d ed., 2006) (principal contributor) (with others)
– Advocacy on Appeal (West, 1st ed., 2001; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2008) (with teacher's manuals)
– Sale of Goods: Reading and Applying the Code (West Group, 1st ed., 2002; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004)
– 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)
– 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)
– Of Spoil Pits and Swimming Pools: Reconsidering the Measure of Damages for Construction Contracts, 75 Minnesota Law Review 1445 (1991)
– A Research Guide to the Law of Private Sector Labor-Management Relations, 79 Law Library Journal 387 (1987)
– Metaphysics, Moral Sense, and the Pragmatism of the Law, 26 Law and History Review 177-185 (2008)
– Statutes of Limitations in Minnesota Choice of Law: The Problematic Return of the Substance-Procedure Distinction, 71 Minnesota Law Review 363 (1986)
– 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)
– The Procompetitive Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 48 William & Mary Law Review 483 (2006)
– Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, 45 Houston Law Review 683 (2008)
– Teaching Students How to Read Statutes Critically, in Teaching the Law School Curriculum (Steven Friedland & Gerald F. Hess, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2004)
– "Death by His Own Hand": Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation, in Subjects of Responsibility: Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies 98 (Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat & Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds., Fordham University Press, 2011)
– 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)