Faculty Huddle at TCF Stadium

Law School faculty celebrated achievements and other activities at a true high-five venue on May 5, 2010—the Club Room of the TCF Bank Stadium, home of the University of Minnesota’s football Golden Gophers.

Recent publications were featured, in a hands-on display and in graphic displays on monitors in the backfield. Selected recently released books were introduced and "reviewed" by fellow faculty members:

• Professor Steve Befort’s Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus (Stanford U. Press, 2009), reviewed by Professor Laura Cooper


• Professor John Borrows’ Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (U. Toronto Press, 2010), reviewed by Professor Heidi Kitrosser; and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (U. Toronto Press, 2010), reviewed by Professor Brian Bix


• Professor Myron Orfield’s Region: Planning the Future of the Twin Cities (U. of Minnesota Press, 2009), reviewed by Professor Prentiss Cox


• Professor Michael Tonry’s Thinking About Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009), reviewed by Professor Kevin Reitz


• Professor Greg Shaffer’s When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford U. Press, 2009), reviewed by Professor Daniel Gifford


• Professor Barbara Welke’s Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge U. Press, 2010), reviewed by Professor Jill Hasday