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By Lizzie Edinger* If you are like me, at some point in your life you have probably been subjected to the “dupe era.” You may find yourself pondering whether you want to splurge on an expensive product or settle for its dupe to save some money. Oftentimes, I settle but am thoroughly disappointed when the product is not identical to its luxury version. This, however, may be the exact strategy…

Grace Sjoberg*  Recent shifts to bar admission rules in Texas and Florida may be the first cracks in the American Bar Association’s (ABA) near-monopoly on legal education. As Republican-led states push back against ABA accreditation standards and align with federal priorities under the Trump Administration, the national and uniform model of legal education may be giving way to…

Jake Heyer* Last year, I wrote about how major law firms were using artificial intelligence (AI) and how this adoption could implicate different parts of the legal profession. At the time, AI was mainly discussed as a tool to enhance productivity in areas such as research and drafting. In the last year, however, developments in the banking industry have…

Jennifer Stegeman* The lower federal courts have been getting more media attention lately, and that spotlight recently landed on a magistrate judge in the District of  Minnesota. Most people, it turns out, have no idea what magistrate judges do—or that they are judges at all. My friend, a fellow 3L, once had a magistrate judge explain his role to her directly; she’s still…

Michael L. Rosin* In a recent post at Election Law Blog, Notre Dame Law Professor Derek Muller has suggested that federal law, namely 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) (originally enacted in 1941) and 2 U.S.C. § 2c (originally enacted in 1967), might already prohibit mid-decade redistricting. Alas, they don’t. As the Supreme Court noted in Wood v.…

Isaac Rillo* Three Justices in the history of the Supreme Court can claim Minnesota as their home: Pierce Butler (1923–1939), Warren Burger (1969–1986), and Harry Blackmun (1970–1994).   Although Pierce Butler was the first Minnesotan to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, he is considered one of the most obscure, despite nearly seventeen years on the bench. With that in mind, this blog post aims to …

*Maizie Lawrence As of December 2025, there are more than 207 million content creators across the world. In the United States alone, 162 million people identify themselves as content creators. The ever-so-popular social media app TikTok has more than 1.59 billion users globally as of 2025. That’s a lot of statistics and numbers, but the main point is that the…