North Dakota Law

North Dakota names Fair McEvers Supreme Court chief justice, 1st female to hold the role MARY STEURER North Dakota Monitor Lisa Fair McEvers has been elected the first female chief justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. She earned about 83% of the vote by sitting justices and district court judges. Justice Jerod Tufte, who […]

At the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference, Professor Klinkner shared new insights from a decade-long statistical analysis on the impact of key amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37. Professor Blake A. Klinkner was recently invited to present his latest research at the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference. […]

Team Wrigley and McCabe finish runners-up Second-year law students Murphy Landa and Kylie Hartje were named champions of the 2025 Internal Moot Court Competition on November 5. The three-day competition, a longstanding tradition at the UND School of Law, is organized by the Moot Court student board and offers second- and third-year students the chance […]

University of North Dakota School of Law Assistant Professor Carolyn V. Williams has received the Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication from the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) for her article “Bracing for Impact: Revising Legal Writing Assessments Ahead of the Collision of Generative AI and the NextGen Bar Exam.” LWI is the world’s largest organization devoted […]

Former Chief Justice Jerry VandeWalle received the inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award from the North Dakota Law Review. The award was presented by Editor in Chief, Erin Cummings, and Managing Editor, Taylor House. Governor Kelly Armstrong and First Lady Kjersti Armstrong hosted a luncheon that included Federal District Judge Daniel M. Traynor, Justice Daniel Crothers, Justice […]

Governor Kelly Armstrong appointed Devils Lake attorney Ashley Samuelson to an open judgeship in the Northeast Judicial District, effective November 28. Samuelson has served as a staff attorney for the Northeast Judicial District since 2017, assisting district judges with civil and felony-level trials and drafting and editing court orders. She served as a special assistant […]

A proud UND School of Law alum, Ms. Askew represents individuals and institutions in criminal and civil matters, with particular focus on employment law, internal and government investigations and enforcement actions, and white collar criminal defense.  As a former federal prosecutor, Askew has made countless appearances in federal court and tried cases to jury verdict […]

As a second-year participant in the Alice T. Clark (ATC2) program, Professor Kimberly Dasse is part of a small, dedicated group of new professors at the University of North Dakota (UND). One of the goals of the program is to help participants learn more about each other’s disciplines. To achieve this, the group meets at […]

National Moot Court Competition in Lexington Tackles Complex Legal Questions on Rare Earth Elements, Environmental Law, and Presidential Authority The 2025 Energy and Mineral Law Moot Court Competition brought together top law students from across the United States to the Central Bank Center in Lexington, Kentucky, for a weekend of advocacy. This year, Professor Blake […]

Ariana D. Meyers, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Family Law Clinic, and AnneMarie Kirvida, UND Law alumna and former Family Law Clinic student, recently presented at the State Bar Association of North Dakota’s 2025 Family Law Seminar, held September 25–26 at the Jasper Hotel in Fargo. Their presentation, “2025 North Dakota Case […]