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 Sapna Kumar.

Finding Patent Solutions That Work For The Greater Good

When COVID-19 began upending the world in late 2019, Sapna Kumar knew what to do. The Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law called upon her diverse intellectual property and administrative law background, as well as what she’d learned as a faculty fellow with Duke University Law School’s Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy. Her resulting research would help inform future policymaking and make a significant impact on social welfare.

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

The Clean Water Act and Avoidance Creep, 109 Minnesota Law Review 3053 (2025)

A Legitimation Crisis Strikes Delaware Corporate Law, JOTWELL (May 2, 2025) (reviewing Ann Lipton, The Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy__ J. Corp. L. __ (forthcoming, 2025).

Unbecoming Public Benefit Corporations, 54 Southwestern Law Review 117 (2025)

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Regulating Robo-Advisors in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence, 82 Washington and Lee Law Review 775 (2025)

The Lawless Workplace, 43 Law & Inequality 99 (2025)