Clinging to the Common Law in an Age of Statutes: Criminal Law in the States
Among the earliest adopters of the Model Penal Code, Illinois codified its entire General Part, including the provisions on accountability, legislatively altering numerous common law positions that required change. Thus, as of 1961, its accountability statute predicated accomplice liability on one’s purposefully giving aid to the principal actor. Unfortunately, those changes were resisted by the [...]
A Corporate Right to Privacy
The debate over the scope of constitutional protections for corporations has exploded with commentary on recent or pending Supreme Court cases, but scholars have left unexplored some of the hardest questions for the future, and the ones that offer the greatest potential for better understanding the nature of corporate rights. This Article analyzes one of [...]
Law’s Remarkable Failure to Protect Mistakenly Overpaid Employees
Employers frequently make mistakes and overpay their employees. For instance, the federal government alone, which makes up only around 2% of the U.S. workforce, will likely overpay its employees by $2 billion this year. After discovering the error, employers often recoup the mistaken overpayments without the supervision of the courts by simply exercising a self-help [...]
Law at the End of War
As the United States continues to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in the coming year, courts will increasingly face the task of interpreting the dozens of federal laws whose operation depends on the existence of war. The 2009 Military Commissions Act (MCA), for instance, makes offenses triable by military commission “only if the offense is committed [...]
The Death of Tax Court Exceptionalism
Tax exceptionalism — the view that tax law does not have to play by the administrative law rules that govern the rest of the regulatory state — has come under attack in recent years. In 2011, the Supreme Court rejected such exceptionalism by holding that judicial review of the Treasury Department’s interpretations of the tax [...]
Truthiness: Corporate Public Figures and the Problem of Harmful Truths
This paper is an invited response to Deven Desai’s article, Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrine. Editor’s Note: Professor Bhagwat’s response piece was scheduled for publication in Volume 98, Issue 3. Due to an editorial oversight, the piece did not go to print on schedule. It is therefore with sincere apologies to Professor [...]
News & Events
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Minnesota Law Review Alum Remembered 45 Years After Death
Minnesota Law Review alumnus Tom Cranna was honored at the Annual Banquet this Spring, 45 years after his death. Mr. Cranna was remembered for his contributions to the journal, the school, and the positive impact he had on his family and friends. The Devil’s Lake Journal published a memorial which [...]
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Follow MLR on Twitter!
The Minnesota Law Review is proud to announce that we are now on Twitter. Follow us @MinnesotaLawRev for information and updates concerning the petition period and deadlines, the opening and closing of article submissions, our 2014 Symposium: Offenders in the Community, and all other news concerning our authors and publications. [...]
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Vol. 97 Lead Piece Cited in Al Jazeera Opinion Piece
A recent Al Jazeera opinion piece that criticizes the Supreme Court’s Daimler decision cites to Volume 97′s lead piece, How Business Fares in the Supreme Court. You can read the Al Jazeera piece here.
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Masthead for Volume 99 Board
The masthead for the Board of Volume 99 of the Minnesota Law Review is now available. You can view the masthead here.
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Above the Law Post Highlights MLR‘s Jump in Journal Rankings
A recent post on Above the Law highlights the fact that the Minnesota Law Review was ranked 11th in the most recent 2013 edition of the Washington & Lee Law Review Rankings. You can read the post here.
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