Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– "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)
– Advocacy on Appeal (West, 1st ed., 2001; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2008) (with teacher's manuals)
– Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, 45 Houston Law Review 683 (2008)
– A Research Guide to the Law of Private Sector Labor-Management Relations, 79 Law Library Journal 387 (1987)
– The Constitutional Underpinnings of Homelessness, 40 Houston Law Review 211 (2003)
– Teaching ADR in the Workplace Once and Again: A Pedagogical History, 53 Journal of Legal Education 1 (2003)
– Real Property in a Nutshell (West, 4th ed., 2000; 5th ed., 2005; 6th ed., 2010; 7th ed., 2016) (translated into Chinese)
– The Mind of the Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law, 26 Law and History Review 99-159 (2008)
– Successful Legal Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (West Group, 1st ed., 2003; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2006; 3d ed., 2010)
– Foreclosure Equity Stripping: Legal Theories and Strategies to Attack a Growing Problem, 39 Clearinghouse Review 607 (2006)
– The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice, 43 Stanford Law Review 13 (1990)
– The Procompetitive Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 48 William & Mary Law Review 483 (2006)
– Sale of Goods: Reading and Applying the Code (West Group, 1st ed., 2002; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004)
– Steve Block: A Teacher to Us All, 69 Minnesota Law Review 724 (1985)
– Harry Shulman: Deciding Women's Grievances in Wartime, Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators (Gladys W. Gruenberg, ed., BNA, 1994)
– Lender/Owners and CERCLA: Title and Liability, 25 Harvard Journal on Legislation 317 (1988)
– The Enduring Power of Collective Rights, in Labor Law Stories 1 (Laura J. Cooper & Catherine L. Fisk, eds., Foundation Press, 2005)
– Fundamentals of Property Law (LexisNexis, 1st ed., 1999; 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2010) (with teacher's manual)
– Introduction, in Law and Morality xi-xvii (Brian Bix & Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Ashgate, 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)
– 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)
– 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)
– 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)
– Introduction, in 1 Philosophy of Law: Critical Concepts in Philosophy 1-18 (Brian Bix, ed., Routledge, 2006)
– 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)