Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Patent Holdup, Patent Remedies, and Antitrust Responses, 34 Journal of Corporation Law 1151 (2009)
– Authorship, Audiences, and Anonymous Speech, 82 Notre Dame Law Review 1537 (2007)
– Introduction, in Law and Morality xi-xvii (Brian Bix & Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Ashgate, 2005)
– 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)
– 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)
– Introduction, in 1 Philosophy of Law: Critical Concepts in Philosophy 1-18 (Brian Bix, ed., Routledge, 2006)
– 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)
– 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)
– 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)
– Raz on Necessity, 22 Law and Philosophy 537 (2003), reprinted in Law and Morality (Kenneth Einar Himma & Brian Bix, eds., Ashgate, 2005)
– The Public and Private Ordering of Marriage, 2004 University of Chicago Legal Forum 295 (2004)
– On Questions and Answers in Law's Quandry, 44 San Diego Law Review 85 (2007)
– Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinacy?, 16 Ratio Juris 281 (2003)
– Form and Formalism: The View from Legal Theory, 20 Ratio Juris 45 (2007)
– An Outsider's Guide to Natural Law Theory, 1 American Philosophical Association Newsletter 126 (Fall 2001)
– Reprint of Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind (Transaction Publishers, 2008) (editor)
– A Dictionary of Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2004); translated into Chinese (Law Press, 2007) and Spanish (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2010)
– Philosophy of Law: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (vols. I-IV) (Routledge, 2006) (editor)
– Raz, Authority, and Conceptual Analysis, 50 American Journal of Jurisprudence 311 (2006)
– State Interest and Marriage--The Theoretical Perspective, 32 Hofstra Law Review 93 (2003), reprinted in 18 Minnesota Family Law Journal 1 (Nov./Dec. 2004)
– Background Rules, Incompleteness, and Intervention, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 379 (2004) (comment on Kostritsky)
– Physician-Assisted Suicide and Federalism, 17 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 53 (2003)
– Choice of Law and Marriage: A Proposal, 36 Family Law Quarterly 255 (2002)
– State Interests in Marriage, Interstate Recognition, and Choice of Law, 38 Creighton Law Review 337 (2005)