Professor Steve Meili teaching a class.

Minnesota Law Faculty

Minnesota Law faculty are engaged scholars and teachers. They are invested in the success of their students while making an impact in our communities through their contributions to the legal profession, outstanding scholarship, groundbreaking research, and dedication to teaching.

An illustration of Francisco Parisi.

In the Wrong Place at the Right Time

Francesco Parisi is known for his soaring intellect, inexhaustible energy, and prodigious academic output. But the Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law says a series of mistakes paved the way to becoming one of the most widely recognized leaders in his field.

The Law Library

Minnesota Law Library

Often ranked as one the top law libraries in the country, Minnesota Law’s library holds over 1 million volumes of one of the most preeminent legal research collections in the United States, providing access to materials in print or digital format. The significant depth and breadth of the collection supports research on almost all traditional and emerging legal topics and is a foundation for the research and curricular needs of Minnesota Law’s faculty and students. 

The Stefan A. Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center holds one of the most outstanding collections of rare legal books in the United States. The books from the Arthur C. Pulling Rare Books Collection include more than 25,000 volumes of rare and special texts printed from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries.

Law Library

Recent Publications

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Kirsten A. Riggan
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Sarah Kesler
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Debra DeBruin
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Jonathon P. Leider
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Nneka Sederstrom
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Jeffrey Dichter
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Erin S. DeMartino

Minnesota Hospitals' Plans for Implementing Statewide Guidance on Allocation of Scarce Critical Care Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 8 Mayo Clinical Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes 537 (2024)

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Irina Filz von Reiterdank
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Raphaela Bento
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Insoo Hyun
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Rosario Isasi
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J. Henk Coert
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Aebele B. Mink van der Molen
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Biju Parekkadan
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Korkut Uygun

Designer Organs: Ethical Genetic Modifications in the Era of Machine Perfusion, 27 Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (2025)

Cultural Cognition and the Thoughtful Judge, 100 Indiana Law Journal 621 (2025)

Uneven Scales: How the Symbiotic Relationship Between Prosecutors and Judges Results in Unfair Criminal Proceedings, 43 Law & Inequality 105 (2025)

Kill 1L, Harvard Law & Policy Review (forthcoming 2025)