North Dakota Law

Updates from the University of North Dakota School of Law.

Articles by
Beth Moe

Professor Alexandra Sickler quoted as an expert: Small Business Bankruptcy Rules Offer Creditors a Boost, Too (1)

Categories: Faculty

Alexandra Sickler, Archie Unterseher Endowed Professor of Law, spent the past year as the academic reporter on a task force charged with evaluating bankruptcy relief for small businesses. Bloomberg Law April 23, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT; Updated: April 23, 2024, 10:56 AM CDT Evan Ochsner, Reporter Congress created Subchapter V to help small businesses New law is […]

Walter R. Echo-Hawk Distinguished Indian Law Speaker

Categories: Public

Walter Echo-Hawk is one of the foremost experts in Indian law and is a distinguished author, tribal judge, law professor, and member of the Pawnee Nation. Echo-Hawk presented, “Challenges for Federal Indian Law Practitioners in the Decade Ahead”, to a full crowd in the UND School of Law VandeWalle Courtroom on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. […]

UND School of Law Hosts Awards Ceremony

Categories: Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students

Law students, faculty, and staff honored Several UND School of Law students, faculty, and staff received awards on Tuesday, April 16, at the School’s 2024 Awards Ceremony. The event took place in the VandeWalle Courtroom and honored recipients for academics, leadership, teaching, advising, achievement, service, and excellence, including: Student Awards Multicultural Law Students Association Advocacy […]

Professor Michael McGinniss Participates in Academic Colloquium on Authority of Law and the United States Constitution

Categories: Faculty

On April 12 and 13, 2024, Michael McGinniss, Professor of Law and J. Philip Johnson Faculty Fellow and former Dean of UND School of Law, participated as an invited discussant at an academic colloquium in Boston, MA sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Liberty Fund on Authority of Law and the United States Constitution. […]

Professor Ariana D. Meyers and Alumnus Gabrielle C. Wolf recently published their article, Policing Morality: The Inconsistent Application of the Moral Fitness and Fitness Factor, in the Children’s Legal Rights Journal

Categories: Alumni, Faculty

The Children’s Legal Rights Journal is a national journal sponsored by Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, in cooperation with the National Association of Counsel for Children. The article depicts the importance of reforming the best interest of the child factors through the elimination or replacement of the moral fitness and fitness factors. This […]

New lawyers admitted to the North Dakota Bar in Supreme Court Ceremony

Categories: Alumni, Public

Sixteen new lawyers were admitted to the North Dakota Bar during a ceremony on April 18, 2024 in the House Chambers of the North Dakota State Capitol Admitted at the ceremony were Yusuf Abas, Gagandeep Bains, Cole Berry, Kathryn Bostrom, Peyton Cole, Seth Flynn, Jessica Four Bear, Gabrielle Frawley, Laura Helgeson, Dixie Holland, Vanessa Jerome, […]

Bridget Grathwohl awarded the 2024 North Dakota Law Review Outstanding Note Award

Categories: Students

The North Dakota Law Review held their annual end-of-year banquet on Thursday, April 12, at the University of North Dakota Memorial Union. At the banquet, second-year law student Bridget Grathwohl was honored with the prestigious Outstanding Note Award. The State Bar Association of North Dakota along with the North Dakota Bar Foundation carefully select this […]

Alumnus Seamus Duffy ’03 appointed Minnesota District Court Judge

Categories: Alumni

Gov. Walz appoints Matti Adam and Seamus Duffy to fill Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District vacancies Gov. Tim Walz has announced the appointments of Matti Adam and Seamus Duffy as District Court Judges in Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District. The seats will be chambered in Bemidji and Mahnomen. By Pioneer Staff Report April 09, 2024 at 4:52 […]

Alumnus Anna Argenti Appointed to Juneau DA

Categories: Alumni

April 4, 2024 (Juneau, AK) – Anna Argenti is the new Juneau District Attorney. She was appointed in March. Argenti brings years of experience as a criminal prosecutor of violent crimes, sexual assaults, domestic violence, and vehicular homicide cases, in which she gained significant trial, appellate and motion practice experience. “The Criminal Division is excited […]