Responding to the Intersectional Issues of Human Trafficking and Substance Use in Minnesota
The Quadriga
A blog highlighting policy issues facing everyday Minnesotans and practical advice for attorneys regarding a myriad of appellate decisions. Topics include essays and posts on education, opioid usage, gun laws, elder care, public safety, and more.
The Quadriga has contributions from practicing attorneys and policy leaders and is intended to be a resource for attorneys as well as citizens.
Posted: May 27, 2025
Responding to the Intersectional Issues of Human Trafficking and Substance Use in Minnesota Lauren Martin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. Trained in Anthropology, she uses participatory and action research approaches to conduct qualitative, mixed-methods, and collaborative research rooted in strengths, meaning-making, and experience to explore …
No Force Nor Will: Judicial Authority in a Post-Truth Era
Posted: March 12, 2025
No Force Nor Will: Judicial Authority in a Post-Truth Era Matthew J. O’Hara is a J.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo School of Law, where he serves as Executive Publications Editor of the Buffalo Law Review and ranks in the top 5% of his class. His publications have focused on state and federal constitutional …
The Public Schools and a Conflicting Trinity of Rights
Posted: November 12, 2024
The Public Schools and a Conflicting Trinity of Rights Brian Boggs, Ph.D., J.D., is an Assistant Professor of Policy and Educational Leadership at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has written extensively on educational organizational complexity, specifically as it affects urban schools, policy, and the intersectionality of law and education. His most recent book is In the Shadow …
Watching the Waters: Constitutional Rulings of Administrative Law Judges in Minnesota
Posted: October 9, 2024
Watching the Waters: Constitutional Rulings of Administrative Law Judges in Minnesota Caleb Wootan is a 3L at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Watching the Waters: Constitutional Rulings of Administrative Law Judges in Minnesota
Commentary on Quinn v. LMC
Posted: December 28, 2023
A Case Holding it as Illegal to Lockout a Long-Term Roommate of the Leaseholder Without a Court Order[1] Paul Birnberg is a veteran housing attorney with 25 years of experience handling landlord-tenant matters in the Minnesota Area. More articles from Mr. Birnberg can be found on his website, The Birnberg Minnesota Legislative Newsletter. The views expressed …
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Clarence?
Posted: November 13, 2023
Brian Owsley is an asssociate professor of law at UNT Dallas College of Law. The views expressed in this article are entirely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Mitchell Hamline Journal of Public Policy and Practice.
A Triple Play for Fairness
Posted: May 18, 2022
Most of us probably would not think of being asked to work through lunch as comparable to having our pocket picked, but that is, in fact, how American jurisprudence defines it. Wage theft is the term the law uses whenever an employee is deprived of lawfully earned wages, whether an employer does so intentionally or not.
Voting – The Role of Law Students and Attorneys in Safeguarding this Human Right: An Excerpt
Posted: May 18, 2022
The right to … vote and to stand for election, is at the core of democratic governments based on the will of the people. This right is enshrined in Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and is cited as the bedrock of functioning democracies. Nevertheless, democracies are increasingly under threat of domestic and foreign efforts to undermine electoral processes.
Voting – The Role of Law Students and Attorneys in Safeguarding this Human Right: An Excerpt
Line 3 Pipeline Spotlights Troubling Global Trend in Policing Protests
Posted: March 10, 2022
From Standing Rock to Line 3, water-protectors, climate activists, and local communities are resisting pipeline projects that threaten their wellbeing. A worrying trend suggests that extractive companies may be taking a page out of their own international playbook and coordinating with local police forces and private security firms to try to break resistance movements.
Line 3 Pipeline Spotlights Troubling Global Trend in Policing Protests
Long Hair, Don’t Care—Why Employers Should Reconsider Their Dress-Code Policies
Posted: January 12, 2022
Introduction And the sign said “Long-haired freaky people need not apply” So I tucked my hair up under my hat And I went in to ask him why He said, “You look like a fine upstandin’ young man I think you’ll do” So I took off my hat and said, “Imagine that Huh, me workin’ …
Long Hair, Don’t Care—Why Employers Should Reconsider Their Dress-Code Policies