North Dakota Law

Sixteen Law Graduates Earn Juris Doctor Degrees at December Ceremony The University of North Dakota proudly celebrated its winter commencement ceremony for professional and graduate degrees on Friday, December 19, 2025, at the Chester Fritz Performing Arts Center on the UND campus. The ceremony marked a significant milestone for students, families, faculty and staff as […]

An evening of connection, conversation, and community led by UCW+ faculty and campus leaders As Faculty Co-lead for UCW+, Professor Kimberly Dasse led the fall mentoring program focused on networking and relationship-building in today’s professional landscape. The event, Networking in the Age of Social Media: An Examination of New and Old Techniques, took place last […]

Closing out the Foundation’s 2025 CLE series with insights on cyberthreats, best practices, and ethical duties. In late December, the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation hosted Professor Blake A. Klinkner for the Foundation’s final CLE presentation of 2025. His CLE addressed the increasingly important topic of cybersecurity and attorney ethics, an area of growing concern […]

The Bucks County Board of Commissioners have selected UND Law Alumnus, Dan Grieser, to serve as County Solicitor. Grieser’s appointment as the County’s chief legal officer and head of its Law Department came Dec. 3, 2025, in a unanimous, bipartisan vote of the three-member board. He joined the Law Department in 2021, and served as […]

Former North Dakota Gov. Allen Olson, who served one term from 1981 to 1984, died December 26 at age 87. JEFF BEACH North Dakota Monitor | Dec 26, 2025 Olson, a Republican, served as the state’s attorney general from 1972 to 1980 before defeating Democratic incumbent Gov. Art Link in the 1980 election, the North Dakota […]

The North Dakota VOAD – Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster – has struggled with low capacity since the COVID-19 pandemic began. On December 16, 2025, a group of disaster relief nonprofit organizations, emergency managers, and state agencies met to revive the organization by voting in and installing new board officers. VOAD is a national organization […]

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 […]