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Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

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 …

No Force Nor Will: Judicial Authority in a Post-Truth Era

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 …

The Public Schools and a Conflicting Trinity of Rights

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

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 …

Commentary on Quinn v. LMC

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.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Clarence?

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.

A Triple Play for Fairness

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

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

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Long Hair, Don’t Care—Why Employers Should Reconsider Their Dress-Code Policies

Katy Rollins is a 3L at Mitchell Hamline, interested in exploring harm reduction policies on the path to abolition of the prison industrial complex.  Almost forty years since the move towards deinstitutionalization, the debate regarding how to best serve those with mental illness continues. After the campaign for deinstitutionalization began in the 1980s, a number …

The Need for Early and Continuing Mental Health Treatment as shown by the COVID-19 Pandemic