Current Events — Topics
Immigration, Citizenship, and Voting Rights in the Second Trump Administration
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 23, 2026
WNBA’s Historic CBA: A Delayed Realization of the Value of Women’s Sports
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 22, 2026
The Hidden Barriers to Divorce: Financial Abuse and Dissolution Filing Fees in Minnesota
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 22, 2026
The Golden Rule and the Supremacy Clause: Legislating Fairness in Minnesota’s Day Care Immigration Enforcement Debate
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 16, 2026
Legal Accountability for Private Prison Companies Operating ICE Detention Facilities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 31, 2026
Dismissing Immigration Court Appeals: Alleviating the Courts’ Caseloads or Undermining Due Process?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 31, 2026
Rescission of the Endangerment Finding
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 31, 2026
Is Operation Metro Surge Really Over?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 31, 2026
Legal Consequences of the Media’s Relationship with Domestic Violence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 30, 2026
The “Gay Disease”: Trump’s Material Attacks on “DEI” Impacts HIV Prevention Programs
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 30, 2026
What Happened to Liam? The Detention of Immigrant Youth
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 26, 2026
The Mean of Affective Justice in the Defense of Anger
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 12, 2026
ICE Must Use Front Plates, Cannot Use Out-of-State Plates in Minnesota
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 26, 2026
In re Benson, A Year Later
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 23, 2026
In Defense of Anger: Reason, Morality, and the Law
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 19, 2026
“Defending the Homeland”: Where Does it End? History’s Demonstration of How Far ICE Can Go
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 4, 2026
Redrawing Democracy: The Supreme Court’s Texas Map Ruling and the Future of Racial Equality in Voting
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 29, 2026
“One Big Beautiful Bill” Education Caps: Lowering Student Debt or Limiting Access to Education?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 28, 2026
“Words Written on Water”—Targeted Immigration Enforcement Under the Trump Administration
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 22, 2026
The Cost of Fairness: Why LIHTC’s Expense Can Be a Progressive Strength
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 21, 2026
Administrative Censorship: The Pentagon’s Press Rules as an Abridgment of Press Freedoms
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 7, 2025
Under Siege: The Legal Profession at a Crossroads
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 24, 2025
The Surprising Cause of Increasingly Horrific Executions: Death Penalty Abolitionists
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 23, 2025
How Recent Executive Actions Deliver Reproductive Healthcare Discrimination
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 7, 2025
The TRAIN Act and Copyright: Generative AI’s Ongoing Impact on Creators
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 27, 2025
Fifth Circuit En-Banc Split Produces Dangerous Theories of Racialized Politics
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 27, 2025
The Cost of Bad Apples: Recovery for Sexual Assault Victims Against Public Employers Post-Sterry
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition: Biases & Privacy Concerns
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2024
Please Don’t Read: How Book Bans Suppress Voices of Color
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 14, 2024
Two Years Since Dobbs: How Access to Contraceptives and IVF Has Changed
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 9, 2024
Direct File Is a Step in the Right Direction that Still Leaves Out Some Taxpayers
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 11, 2024
Sleep Tight? Not on This Bench: Grants Pass and the Criminalization of Unhoused Individuals
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 4, 2024
The Suncor Sets on the Fossil Fuel Empire: Why the Fight for Climate Justice Will Take Place in State Courts
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 4, 2024
Tick-Tock TikTok: Time’s Up on Online Free Speech?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 16, 2024
How Texas’s Immigration Power-Grab Harms Migrants, Legal Immigrants, and Communities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 14, 2024
Texas Legislature doubles down on supporting oil and gas at the cost of renewable energy post-freeze
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 27, 2024
Will Minnesota’s New Automatic Expungement Laws Have an Effect on Federal Sentences?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 14, 2024
Taking Out the Trash: Is Biden’s Plan for Eliminating Junk Fees an Effective One?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 2, 2024
Birthright Citizenship: An Unqualified Right?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 31, 2023
A New Future for Social Media Platforms, Courtesy of State Legislators.
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 13, 2023
Examining the Constitutionality of Targeted Residential Protest Bans
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 12, 2023
Reason-Specific Abortion Bans Under Current Abortion Jurisprudence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 13, 2023
Crypto and the Climate Crisis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 8, 2023
Face It: Police Can't Be Trusted with Facial Recognition Technology
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 7, 2023
The Respect for Marriage Act: Limitations, Protections, and Future Implications
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 3, 2023
Updated Minnesota Child Support Guidelines Starting January 1, 2023: What’s Changing and Who Will Be Impacted?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 10, 2023
State v. Khalil: How a Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling Led to the Amendment of a Minnesota Criminal Sexual Conduct Statute
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 6, 2023
Explainer: The Teamsters Local 320 Agreement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 12, 2023
First Down, First Amendment: A Case Comment on Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 2, 2022
The Arsenic Triangle of South Minneapolis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 31, 2022
Worker-Led Organization: Is a New Labor Wave on the Horizon?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 31, 2022
Gentrification, Displacement, and Disparate Impact Liability: How Gentrification Theory is Not Cognizable Under the Fair Housing Act
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 2, 2022
Out of the Cell and Into the Fire: Inherently Dangerous Prison Work Assignments, the Eighth Amendment’s Guarantee of Safe Conditions of Confinement, and California’s AB-2147
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 13, 2022
Ignoring Inequalities and Refusing to Consider Consequences: The Supreme Court’s Blocking of OSHA’s Emergency COVID Standard
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 31, 2022
A Healthy Start: Minnesota Is Pioneering an Alternative to Prison Nurseries, and Other States Should Follow Its Lead
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 28, 2022
Statement on COVID-19: Addressing Inequity Within Our Law School
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 31, 2022
A New Minneapolis: Opportunities in the Redistricting of Minneapolis Wards
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 19, 2022
Immigration Under the Biden Administration: An Interview with Attorney Erin Schutte Wadzinski
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 15, 2021
The Supreme Court Vacated the CDC Eviction Moratorium – Now What?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 2, 2021
General Counsel Abruzzo’s Memoranda Indicate a Bold, Pro-Worker Agenda at Biden’s NLRB
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 26, 2021
Joint Publication: Racial Inequality in the Legal System Locally and Nationally
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, August 5, 2021
Who’s Benefiting from Attorney General Settlement Agreements?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 2, 2021
Constitutional Avenues for Challenging Social Media Monitoring by Law Enforcement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2021
JLI’s Statement Regarding Chauvin Verdict and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 21, 2021
This Week in News: Responses to the Killing of Daunte Wright
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 15, 2021
JLI’s Statement on Brooklyn Center Police’s Killing of Daunte Wright
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 14, 2021
The History of Anti-Asian Discrimination, Racism, and Xenophobia - Interview with Prof. Linus Chan
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 5, 2021
How We Got Here: Race, Police Use of Force, and the Road to George Floyd
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 1, 2021
“How Are We Supposed to Move Forward with THIS Police Force After This?”: The Stalled Reform Movement in Minneapolis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 26, 2021
The $2 Billion-Plus Price of Injustice: A Methodological Map for Police Reform in the George Floyd Era
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 22, 2021
Refunding the Community: What Defunding MPD Means and Why It Is Urgent and Realistic
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 18, 2021
Deadly Force: How George Floyd's Killing Exposes Racial Inequities in Minnesota's Felony-Murder Doctrine Among the Disenfranchised, the Powerful, and the Police
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 8, 2021
Volume 40 is Open for Submissions!
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 17, 2021
Covid-19 in Prisons: Human Rights Violations and Inmate Exploitation
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 29, 2021
Locking the Door to the Country on the Way Out: The Trump Administration's Final Attempt to Eliminate Protections for Asylum Seekers
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 22, 2021
The Law in Politics: A Conversation with Rep. Ryan Winkler
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 12, 2021
The Intersection Between Antitrust Law and Labor Law - A Conversation with Professor Sanjukta Paul
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 3, 2021
An American Caste System: A Conversation with Professor Sheryll Cashin
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 30, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - What Is To Be Done? How Can We Help?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Awards Ceremony
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2020
Why a Tuesday in November? An Original Intent Argument for Increased Voter Accessibility
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Who's Profiting?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 23, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Is America Ready for a 2nd Reconstruction? A 3rd "Founding"?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 23, 2020
Elder Evictions: Relief Coming 2021
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 19, 2020
Avoiding Atkins: How Tennessee is on the Verge of Unconstitutionally Executing an Individual with Intellectual Disabilities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 18, 2020
The Movement Lawyer of 2020
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, August 11, 2020
JLI's Statement of Solidarity
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 2, 2020
Response to MPD's Killing of George Floyd
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 2, 2020
Immigration Rights During COVID-19—Interview with The Advocates For Human Rights' John Bruning
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 15, 2020
Inmate Rights and the Prison/Jail System During COVID-19—Interview with Prof. Susanna Blumenthal
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 9, 2020
Eviction/Housing Issues During COVID-19—Interview with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's Joey Dobson
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 30, 2020
Domestic violence and other gender-related issues during COVID-19 - Interview with Prof. June Carbone
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 24, 2020
The Case for Preserving Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health Care Protections
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 5, 2017
A Substantial Interest: Why the Government is Legally Justified in Prohibiting Disparaging Trademarks
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, July 31, 2016
Pass Senate Bill 355: How Proposed Minnesota Legislation Brings the U.S. into Compliance with International Norms
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2016