Six Minnesota Law Faculty Publish Scholarly Work on SSRN as Part of Minnesota Law’s Legal Studies Research Paper Series

January 26, 2025

Minnesota Law’s Legal Studies Research Paper Series highlights recent faculty scholarship published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The works collected for the January 2025 series include scholarly research from several Minnesota Law faculty covering a variety of legal topics. Scholarly publications included in January’s Legal Studies Research Paper Series are:

Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 has written “Chevron on the Eve of Loper Bright” published in 4 Widener Commonwealth Law Review 1 (2024) which examines how lower courts changed their decision-making as the Supreme Court became more skeptical of the Chevron deference.
Professor Brian Bix and Professor Francesco Parisi co-authored a book chapter, “Fairness in Contract Law: An Impossibility Theorem,” forthcoming in the Handbook of Regulatory Contract Law (Oxford University Press, 2026) (Yesim M. Atamer and Alexander Hellgardt, eds.), that surveys central positions in the debate about contract law.
Professor Thomas Cotter has written “Disproportionality: Toward a Law-and-Economics Approach to Wrongful Patent Assertion,” forthcoming in Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law (Christopher Heath & Anselm Kamperman Sanders, eds., Wolters Kluwer) (2025). This article explains how the concept of proportionality might help to inform what constitutes the wrongful assertion of patent rights.
Professor Allan Erbsen published “Constitutional Limits on the President's Authority to Adjourn Congress” on SSRN (2024). This paper explores the implications of the President of the United States adjourning Congress to appoint cabinet members without congressional approval.
Professor Claire Hill published “The Rhetoric and Reality of Shareholder Profit Maximization” in 99 Chicago-Kent Law Review 101 (2024). This article examines how shareholder profit maximization (SPM) and stakeholderism are often at odds but may not need to be.