Allen Blair
Associate ProfessorEmail: Hblair01@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2794
Professor Blair started his legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Paul A. Magnuson for the federal district court in the district of Minnesota. Following his clerkship, Professor Blair practiced business and 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 Rising Star in the Minnesota legal community.
Professor Blair teaches and writes primarily in the areas of commercial law, contracts, international commercial law, and federal courts, and he coaches the Admiralty and Space Law moot court teams.
Professor Blair remains actively engaged in the local legal community. He works with Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights in representing foreign nationals seeking asylum in the United States, he presents continuing legal education seminars for practitioners on a variety of commercial law and contract topics, and he occasionally serves as an outside consultant in commercial litigation cases.Publications
- Hard Cases Under the Convention on the International Sale of Goods: A Proposed Taxonomy of Interpretive Challenges (forthcoming 2009).
- A Matter of Trust: Should No-Reliance Clauses Bar Claims for Fraudulent Inducement?, 93 MARQ. L. REV. 423 (2009).
- 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).
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