Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– The Story of NLRB v. Gissel Packing: The Practical Limits of Paternalism, in Labor Law Stories 191 (Laura J. Cooper & Catherine L. Fisk, eds., Foundation Press, 2005)
– Property (West, 3d ed., 1997; 4th ed., 2003; 5th ed., 2006; 6th ed., 2012) (Black Letter Outlines series)
– Controlling the Arbitration Hearing: Introduction, Proceedings of the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators 285 (Patrick Halter & Paul D. Staudohar, eds., BNA, 2009)
– Statutory Fraud Laws, in Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook (Edward T. Wahl, ed., Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 2008; 2d ed., 2009)
– Unlocking the Mysteries of Holy Trinity: Spirit, Letter, and History in Statutory Interpretation, 100 Columbia Law Review 901 (2000)
– Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practice Regulation in Minnesota (Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 1st ed., 2007; 2d ed., 2009) (editor)
– Introducing Negotiation and Drafting into the Contracts Classroom, 44 St. Louis University Law Journal 1545 (2000)
– 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)
– Lenders and Land, 64 Missouri Law Review 249 (1999)
– The Illegality of Bad Grammar, 6 Constitutional Commentary 5 (1989), revised version in 2 Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 159 (1991)
– Symposium Foreword: The Low-Wage Worker: Legal Rights - Legal Realities, 92 Minnesota Law Review 1289 (2008)
– "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)
– The Constitutional Underpinnings of Homelessness, 40 Houston Law Review 211 (2003)
– A Research Guide to the Law of Private Sector Labor-Management Relations, 79 Law Library Journal 387 (1987)
– Real Property in a Nutshell (West, 4th ed., 2000; 5th ed., 2005; 6th ed., 2010; 7th ed., 2016) (translated into Chinese)
– Teaching ADR in the Workplace Once and Again: A Pedagogical History, 53 Journal of Legal Education 1 (2003)
– 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)
– Introduction, in Law and Morality xi-xvii (Brian Bix & Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Ashgate, 2005)
– On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy, in On Philosophy in American Law 99-105 (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009), translated into Chinese, Archives for Legal Philosophy and Sociology of Law, vol. 14 (Yong Liu Zheng ed., Peking University Press, 2009)
– Introduction, in Jerome Frank, Law & the Modern Mind (Transaction Publishers, 2009), reprinted in Classic Writings in Law and Society (A. Javier Trevino, ed., 2d ed. revised and expanded, Transaction Publishers, 2011)
– 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)