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Maddy Not Mommy

Excerpts from Maddy’s Substack newsletter, Maddy Not Mommy. 2023

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Sketchbooks and Legal Pads

Full post available here. Sketchbooks and Legal Pads is a newsletter about the overlap of law, art, and technology.

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Don't Go to Law School

Title IX Stories

Title IX. 2022. First appearing on Maddy not Mommy

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That Law Was Title IX

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Book of Anger

Book of Anger. Illustrated book/zine. 2019.

American Illustration 39 Chosen Winner.

Showcased in Minnesota Center for Book Arts’ 2019 New Editions show. Available for purchase at the Shop and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Book of Anger is part of the Hennepin County Library’s circulating zine collection. 2023.

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DACA Litigation

Visual timeline of the litigation surrounding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). 2019. Created for use by the University of Minnesota’s Immigration Response Team.

Scenes from the Wall

A pandemic winter, some Posca markers, and four blank studio walls transforms into an enormous mural of whimsical creatures. 2021

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Fundamental Right

Fundamental Right. Zine. 2022.

Available for purchase at the Center for Book Arts in downtown Minneapolis.

Selected for inclusion in the Center for Book Arts New Editions Exhibition 2023.

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When There Are Nine

Created in memory of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with hope that there may one day be a U.S. Supreme Court like this. 2020

Maddy’s thoughts on Ruthless Times and mourning RBG through art.

Mom

Excerpts from The Book of Mom, based on a few decades of research. 2020.

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Impeachment Basics

Excerpts from Impeachment Basics. 2020.

Part 1

Part 2

DACA Book

Illustrated book explaining DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy) and the litigation surrounding it in Fall 2019. 2019. View full book on LetsDrawLaw Blog.

Fill in the ___ Mad(dy) Libs

Fill in the Fill in the Buck (Mad(dy) Libs). Zine. 2021.

Available for purchase at the Shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in downtown Minneapolis.

Remember Mad Libs? Fill in the blanks on each page and make yourself giggle! Make sure to read this zine with a pen (or pencil if you want to repeat the fun) on hand!

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Nursery Narrative

Commission to draw mural on nursery wall for a new baby girl. Posca Markers. 2023.

See blog for full story.

Children's Nursery: Mural Animals

A children’s nursery mural of sheep, ducks, moose, turtles, and other woodland creatures, drawn with Posca markers in bright blue, turquoise, and orange.

Paternity Law Illustrations

Paternity CLE Illustrations. 2019. Illustrations created to supplement online continuing legal education presentation by Marian Saksena and Theresa Farrell-Strauss

Lake in Limbo

Lake in Limbo. Illustrated book analyzing Bde Maka Ska lake-renaming litigation. 2019. Published in Hennepin Lawyer January/February 2020. Available for download through Hennepin Lawyer.

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Federal Quarantine Powers

Sources (law reviews don’t use drawings so these drawings aren’t using Bluebook format…keeping things fair over here):

Constitution: Commerce Clause, Article 1, Section 9 of U.S. Constitution

Federal Law: Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act, aka 42 USC 264.

Federal Regulations:

42 CFR 70.1-70.18 (Interstate Quarantine)

42 CFR 71.1-71.63 (Foreign Quarantine)

Secondary sources:

“Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine” on CDC website.

And, if you’re curious about some fascinating history of yellow fever shotgun quarantines in the late 1800s American South, check out “Epidemics, Outsiders, and Local Protection: Federalism Theater in the era of the Shotgun Quarantine” by Polly J. Price. If you’re not into legal analysis, just read the beginning.