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Thomas L. Olson: "Blockbusters: Minnesota Movie Men Slug it out with Studio Moguls, 1938-1948."

"The history of law is the history of ideas" --- A preface to articles on intellectual legal history and theory posted on the MLHP.

Justice David J. Brewer: "Protection to Private Property from Public Attack." (1891).

Justice David J. Brewer: "The Movement of Coercion." (1893).

Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).

James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).

Edward T. Young: "The Present Problems Involved in Minnesota's Statehood." (1908).

President Theodore Roosevelt: "The Courts." (1908).

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Opportunity in the Law." (1905).

Viewing George E. Warner & Charles M. Foote, "The Territorial Courts and Bar of Hennepin County" (1881).

George E. Warner & Charles M. Foote, "The Territorial Courts and Bar of Hennepin County" (1881).

This short article about lawyers and courts in Hennepin County in the 1850s was included in a county history published in 1881. The authors repeat humorous anecdotes, list lawyers and judges and, unexpectedly, make acute observations about the bar that make reading it worthwhile

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