Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality
Articles
Critical Lawyering Pedagogy: Transformational Legal Education
In an era marked by democratic backsliding, systemic inequality, and widespread disillusionment with legal institutions, traditional legal education has proven not merely inadequate, but actively complicit in reproducing the institutional...
Lend Me Your Interest Rates: Rent-a-Bank, Fintech, and True Lenders
The rise of fintech has bolstered so-called rent-a-bank lending, a scheme through which online lenders partner with national banks in order to take advantage of the banks’ ability to “export”...
Dynamic Displacement: How Algorithmic Rent Pricing Threatens To Exacerbate Barriers To Housing Voucher Use And Mobility
Tenant-based rental vouchers have long played a central role in efforts to expand affordability and economic mobility. Despite growing demand amid a deepening housing crisis, funding for federal rental assistance...
Unfair and Deceptive Pay: A Consumer Protection Approach to Algorithmic Personalized Wages
The rise of digital commerce, consumer surveillance, and bigdata analytics have given rise to a new set of pricing techniques in the first quarter of the 21st century. Much has...
‘Mic Fright’: The Dire Reality of Employment Classification in Unscripted Television
Reality television has grown over the last near-century into both a staple of popular culture and an overwhelmingly lucrative industry. While the genre had a relatively innocent beginning, what shows...
Whose Interest? How Attorney General Paxton Weaponizes his Administrative Power Against the Public Interest
Attorney Generals wield immense power throughout the country and are charged with protecting the interests of the public. In Texas, the Attorney General manipulates this power for political capital and...