Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
To find earlier publications during a faculty member's tenure at the University of Minnesota Law School, search by faculty member and/or by words in the publications' citations using the search box on the right. Additional information can be found on the faculty biography pages via the faculty directory.
– Authorization Cards and Union Representation Election Outcome: An Empirical Assessment of the Assumption Underlying the Supreme Court's Gissel Decision, 79 Northwestern University Law Review 87 (1984)
– Introducing Negotiation and Drafting into the Contracts Classroom, 44 St. Louis University Law Journal 1545 (2000)
– The Illegality of Bad Grammar, 6 Constitutional Commentary 5 (1989), revised version in 2 Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 159 (1991)
– Lenders and Land, 64 Missouri Law Review 249 (1999)
– "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)
– Symposium Foreword: The Low-Wage Worker: Legal Rights - Legal Realities, 92 Minnesota Law Review 1289 (2008)
– Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, 45 Houston Law Review 683 (2008)
– Advocacy on Appeal (West, 1st ed., 2001; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2008) (with teacher's manuals)
– 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)
– Foreclosure Equity Stripping: Legal Theories and Strategies to Attack a Growing Problem, 39 Clearinghouse Review 607 (2006)
– Successful Legal Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (West Group, 1st ed., 2003; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2006; 3d ed., 2010)
– The Procompetitive Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 48 William & Mary Law Review 483 (2006)
– The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice, 43 Stanford Law Review 13 (1990)
– Steve Block: A Teacher to Us All, 69 Minnesota Law Review 724 (1985)
– Sale of Goods: Reading and Applying the Code (West Group, 1st ed., 2002; Thomson West, 2d ed., 2004)
– 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)
– Privatizing Labor Law: Neutrality/Card Check Agreements and the Role of the Arbitrator, 83 Indiana Law Journal 1589 (2008) (The William R. Stewart Lecture)
– The Importance of Deceptive Practice Enforcement in Financial Institution Regulation, 30 Pace Law Review 279 (2009) (Symposium on Real Property, Mortgages, and the Economy: A Call for Ethics and Reforms)