Latest Podcasts
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Visibility and Representation: Tribal Nations
In this episode, we explore the visibility and representation of Tribal Nations in today’s world—how Indigenous governments, cultures, and voices are recognized in education and public policy. We look at why accurate representation matters, how it shapes public understanding, and what it means to move beyond historical narratives to center Tribal Nations as living, sovereign communities.
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When Justice Hurts: Facing Moral Injury in Legal Practice
Moral injury in the legal field is real — and rarely discussed. Professor Natalie Netzel explores how legal professionals and law students grapple with the ethical and emotional weight of their work.
Current Issue
Volume 47, Issue 2
June 2026
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S.F. 2200 (2025) – Permission to Change: Minnesota’s Illusory Privilege Reform in a Post-Notorious RBG Era
Minnesota’s S.F. 2200 (2025) presents a stark contradiction: a statute purporting to establish privilege protections for restorative justice participants while systematically carving out those protections intended for vulnerable participants who access government-funded services provided by paid facilitators. The narrowing of this privilege creates arbitrary classifications that violate Equal Protection principles. The stakes are immediate and…
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Arbitrating Discipline Without Due Process or Training: Procedural Injustice in the United States Postal Services Grievances
Labor arbitration serves as a cornerstone of industrial democracy in the United States, particularly in heavily unionized Federal institutions like the United States Postal Service (USPS). Under Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), disciplinary disputes are routinely resolved not through the courts but via a quasi-judicial arbitration process, where neutral arbitrators determine whether the employer had “just…
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Implementing Young Adult Court in Minnesota
Young Adult Court (YAC), also referred to as Emerging Adult Court, is a problem-solving court for criminal defendants in emerging adulthood (approximately age 18-25) that has been implemented in a growing number of jurisdictions across the U.S. YAC is designed based on research showing that young adults are fundamentally different from both juveniles and older…
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More Than Bad Neighbors: Data Centers and Minnesota’s Newest Attempts to Regulate Them
Americans have started asking questions about the data centers suddenly popping up across the country. Communities have rightfully begun to question whether these data centers belong near their neighborhoods, and how the intrusion caused by these structures will impact their lives. While neighbors host these conversations, their elected representatives offer incentives to lure in these…
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Assessing Liability for School Shootings
In the fall of 2024, fourteen-year-old Colt Gray walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia with an AR-15-style rifle and killed four people and injured nine others. In an interview following the shooting, his mother, Marcee Gray, said, “It’s not his fault.” If it is not his fault, then whose fault is it? Should…
