The Minnesota Law Review is a law review

Law review

A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...

 published by students at University of Minnesota Law School

University of Minnesota Law School

The University of Minnesota Law School, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, is a professional school of the University of Minnesota. The school offers a Juris Doctor , Masters of Law for Foreign Lawyers, and joint degrees with J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.P.A, J.D./M.A., J.D./M.S., J.D./Ph.D.,...

. The journal is published six times a year in November, December, February, April, May, and June. It was established by Henry J. Fletcher and William Reynolds Vance in 1917. The Minnesota Law Reviews alumni include William C. Canby, Jr.

William C. Canby, Jr.

William Cameron Canby, Jr. is currently a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sitting in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born on May 22, 1931, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Canby earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1953 on an ROTC scholarship, graduating summa...

, Donald M. Fraser

Donald M. Fraser

Donald MacKay Fraser is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Early life:Donald Fraser played a critical role in making human rights an important part of U.S. policy. Fraser was born on 20 February 1924 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Everett and Lois Fraser. His parents were émigrés...

, Orville Freeman

Orville Freeman

Orville Lothrop Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...

, Bill Luther

Bill Luther

William Paul "Bill" Luther is an American politician. Luther was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 2003, serving in the 104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th congresses, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional...

, George MacKinnon

George MacKinnon

George Edward MacKinnon was appointed by President Nixon to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in May 1969, where he served until his death in 1995. Judge MacKinnon is also the father of feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon.According to Judge Harry T...

, Walter Mondale

Walter Mondale

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

, Diana E. Murphy

Diana E. Murphy

Diana E. Murphy born in 1934, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.- Education :Murphy received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1954 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1974, where she was an editor on the...

, William Prosser

William Prosser

William Lloyd Prosser was the Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton...

, Ernest Gellhorn

Ernest Gellhorn

Ernest Gellhorn was an American academic and legal scholar. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Law School, and was a Guggenheim fellow...

, Richard Maxwell

Richard Maxwell (academic)

Richard C. Maxwell is Chadwick Professor Emeritus of Law at Duke University. A graduate of Duke and the University of Minnesota Law School, Maxwell was previously Connell Professor and Dean of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles...

, Maynard Pirsig

Maynard Pirsig

Maynard Pirsig was an American legal scholar and academic. Educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School, he was Professor and Dean of Law at Minnesota from 1948 to 1955. He was later Professor of Law at the William Mitchell College of Law...

, Daniel D. Polsby

Daniel D. Polsby

Daniel D. Polsby is Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law at George Mason University and was previously Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University.-Education:...

, Robert Kingsley

Robert Kingsley

Robert Kingsley was an American legal scholar and California judge. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Law School, and Harvard Law School...

, Harold Stassen

Harold Stassen

Harold Edward Stassen was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, from 1948 to 1953 he was president of the University of Pennsylvania...

, and Arthur Whitney of Dorsey & Whitney

Dorsey & Whitney

Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a large law firm, with close to 600 lawyers and 650 staff located in 19 offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Its headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has been since its inception. Dorsey is currently led by its managing partner, Marianne D. Short...

. Other alumni include judges Donald D. Alsop, David S. Doty, Richard H. Kyle, and John R. Tunheim

John R. Tunheim

John R. Tunheim is a United States federal judge.Born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, Tunheim received a B.A. from Concordia College in 1975 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1980. He was a law clerk to Judge Earl Larson of the U.S...

, all of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Minnesota. Its two primary courthouses are in Minneapolis and Saint Paul...

; Carlton Calvin, founder of Razor USA and the Razor (scooter)

Razor (scooter)

The Razor scooter is a compact folding Kick scooter invented by Micro Mobility Systems and manufactured by JD Corporation. The Razor appeared in 1999 and became extremely popular around 2000. Today, The Razor Scooter is manufactured by Razor USA, based in Cerritos, California...

; Phil Carruthers, former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives; former New Hampshire Governor Charles M. Dale

Charles M. Dale

Charles Milby Dale was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire; he was the seventy-sixth Governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1945 to 1949.-Early career:...

; current Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner

Susan Gaertner

Susan Gaertner is a Minnesota politician and the former County Attorney for Ramsey County, Minnesota. She was a candidate for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for Governor in the 2010 election.-Family and early life:...

; John Mooty, Melvin Mooty, and Frank Plant, all of Gray Plant Mooty; and Robert Stein

Robert Stein (academic)

Robert A. Stein is Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. A noted scholar of estate planning, Stein was previously William Pattee Professor and Dean at the University of Minnesota Law School, from which he received his law degree in 1961...

, former executive director of the American Bar Association

American Bar Association

The American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...

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