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Penny A. Petersen: "Isaac Atwater."

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 "The First Trial in Freeborn County, Minnesota" (1882).

"The First Trial in Freeborn County, Minnesota" (1882).

"Boulton v. Knapp," the first trial in Freeborn County, was held in January, 1857. For decades it has interested scholars of the adversarial system because it superbly illustrates the lawyer's ethical duty to be a zealous advocate for his client (s).

An account of this famous case appeared first in a county history published in 1882.

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