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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).


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Lucius F. Hubbard & Return I. Holcombe: "Judicial System." (1908)

This article is an important resource because it lists the names and years of service of all men who served on the supreme court from statehood to the early twentieth century, the clerks and reporters of the supreme court, and the judges of the nineteen judicial districts. It appeared as a chapter ...

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Loren Warren Collins: "An Incomplete History of the Establishment of Courts in Minnesota." (1912)

The author of this paper was Loren Warren Collins, who served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1887 to 1904. He died before he could finish it. It was to be a longer, written version of a speech he gave in 1911 to the Hennepin County Bar Association on the history of the benc...

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