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H. Allen Blair

Associate Professor
Email: Hblair01@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2794

 

B.F.A., University of North Dakota
M.A., University of North Dakota
J.D., Hamline University School of Law
LL.M., Columbia University School of Law, James Kent Scholar

 


View Professor Blair's research: SSRN Author Page -- H. Allen Blair


Professor Blair began his legal career as a law clerk to Hon. Paul A. Magnuson of the Federal District Court for the District of Minnesota. Following his clerkship, Blair practiced commercial litigation at Greene Espel, P.L.L.P., representing clients in complex contract disputes, accounting malpractice actions, and environmental insurance coverage disputes. While working at Greene Espel, he was recognized for three consecutive years by Minnesota Law & Politics as a Rising Star in the Minnesota legal community.


Professor Blair remains actively engaged in the legal community both locally and nationally, representing clients in Minnesota and elsewhere on a pro bono basis. In particular, he regularly works with the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights to represent foreign nationals seeking asylum in the United States. Additionally, Blair serves as Of Counsel for Greene Espel, P.L.L.P. on commercial litigation matters.


Professor Blair teaches and writes primarily in the areas of contract law and theory, international commercial law, and public international law. Additionally, he serves as a faculty advisor for the Admiralty Law, Jessup International Law and Space Law moot court teams.

 

Publications


Hard Cases Under the Convention on the International Sale of Goods: A Proposed Taxonomy of Interpretive Challenges 21 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 269 (2011)
 
A Matter of Trust: Should No-Reliance Clauses Bar Claims for Fraudulent Inducement?, 93 MARQ. L. REV. 423 (2009).
 Lexis Westlaw

You Don’t Have To Be Ludwig Wittgenstein: How Llewellyn’s Concept of Agreement Should Change the Law of Open-Quantity Contracts, 37 SETON HALL L. REV. 67 (2006).
 Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline(Hamline Users) HeinOnline

Where is Emily Litella When You Need Her?: The Unsuccessful Effort to Craft a General Theory of Obligation of Promise for Benefit Received, 28 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. (2010). (co-authored with Edwin J. Butterfoss).