North Dakota Law

The University of Oregon School of Law hosted the two-day conference where law faculty and scholars from across the nation gathered to share innovative legal writing teaching strategies and scholarship. Their presentation, Legal Research and Writing: Ethics and Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, is the subject of their law review article in progress and provided conference […]

Can Room Scans Prior to Remote Examination Constitute a Violation of the Fourth Amendment? Blake A. Klinkner As videoconferencing has become ubiquitous, questions have arisen over the degree to which we should allow, or require, this technology to intrude into our personal spaces. During the COVID era’s rapid transition to online instruction and examination, debates […]

Jeffrey A. Wencl has been hired as an associate attorney at Beaumier Trogdon Orman Hurd and Viegas, Attorneys at Law, PLLP, in Duluth, Minnesota. A native of Ham Lake, Minnesota, Wencl will advise clients in the areas of estate planning, elder law, real estate, and bankruptcy. Wencl earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History, […]

Chief Judge Peter D. Welte announced that Kari M. Knudson has been appointed to the position of Clerk of Court for the United States District Court, for the District of North Dakota, effective January 1, 2023. Knudson has served as the Chief Deputy Clerk for the United States District Court for the District of North […]

Professor Carolyn Williams authored a chapter titled Orientation and Training for Editors, New Staff Members, and Returning Staff Members in The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors that was published in September. The Manual is the first book to comprehensively instruct law review editors how to run a law review. Its goal is to help […]

Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD published Professor Carolyn Williams’ review of the book Her Honor: My Life on the Bench . . . What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell. Judge Cordell was the first Black female judge in Northern California. Her book highlights injustices and problems with the […]

Welcome, new Americans Inspiring ceremony at UND sees 38 people from 11 countries take Oath of Citizenship  UND Today | September 20, 2022 | by Adam Kurtz “It’s raining outside,” said Peter Welte, chief judge of the District Court of North Dakota, to the 38 people who’d gathered in an auditorium on campus to be […]

District Court Judge Brad Cruff, who is chambered in Wahpeton, was one of 15 judges in the United States chosen to participate in the Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership Initiative. The Leadership Initiative pairs a trial court judge with a psychiatrist from the same state and provides them intensive training on how to effectively deal with […]

The North Dakota Supreme Court is pleased to announce the following individuals who have been selected to serve a one-year clerkship with the North Dakota Supreme Court for the 2023-2024 term beginning August 1, 2023. Orrin Burch of Mandan, North Dakota, received a B.A. in History and Philosophy from the University of Mary. Mr. Burch […]

By some estimates, more than 4,000 Native Americans are missing or have been murdered. Murder is the number 3 cause of death of young indigenous women Ron Claiborne On April 21st, 2021, a man named HaHaax Veille took his three-year-old niece, Arden “Ardie” Pepion, to the Two Medicine area on the eastern edge of Glacier […]