Kendra Fershee

 

Kendra Fershee

Assistant Professor of Law
kfershee@law.und.edu

 

Professor Kendra Huard Fershee received her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School, where she served as the Senior Managing Editor of Tulane Law Review.  Professor Fershee also represented her class to the Dean’s Advisory Council for all three years of law school, and served as a Senior Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing curriculum during her third year. 

After graduating from law school, Professor Fershee practiced commercial litigation for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York, NY and Washington, D.C.  Professor Fershee represented large securities firms in New York Stock Exchange and Securities Exchange Commission investigations, a multinational bank syndicate in litigation against a global telecommunications provider, and worked on several pro bono matters relating to disability rights and family law.  Professor then spent a year teaching Legal Analysis, Research and Writing at Penn State Dickinson School of Law in State College, Pennsylvania.

Before law school, Professor Fershee had a career in political organizing.  After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with a double major in Communications and Political Science, Professor Fershee worked for a non-profit political organization in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California for five years, primarily focusing on access to public education and first amendment rights. 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of North Dakota School of Law
Assistant Professor, August 2008-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2007-May 2008

Lawyering Skills Website

Courses Taught:

Lawyering Skills I
Lawyering Skills II
Employment Discrimination

Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006-07

Courses Taught:

Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing I
Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing II

Tulane Law School
Senior Fellow, Legal Research & Writing Program, 2002-03
New Orleans, LA

 

EDUCATION

Tulane Law School, J.D., cum laude - 2003
New Orleans, LA

Senior Managing Editor, Tulane Law Review, Volume 77
Dean’s Advisory Committee Class Representative
Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, Summer Abroad - 2001 (Greece)
Awards: Conrad Meyer III Law Review Award

University of Michigan, B.A./Communications and Political Science - 1995
Ann Arbor, MI

President’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues School Representative

 

PUBLICATIONS

An Act for All Contexts: Incorporating the Pregnancy Discrimination Act into Title IX to Help Pregnant Students Gain and Retain Access to Education, 39 Hofstra L. Rev. __ (forthcoming).

Hollow Promises for Pregnant Teens, How the Regulations of Title IX Fail to Prevent Pregnancy Discrimination in School,
43 Ind. L. Rev 79 (2009).

Discretionary Recusal and the Appearance of Partiality Through the Eyes of the Fifth Circuit in Republic of Panama v. American Tobacco Co.
77 Tul. L. Rev. 517 (2002).

PRESENTATIONS

Invited speaker to a Summit regarding education access for pregnant students,
Fordham School of Law, New York City, October 2009.

Faculty Brownbag, Teaching Writing to Upperclass Students in Doctrinal Courses ,
University of North Dakota School of Law, October 2009.

X Marks the Spot; Piquing Students’ Interest in Research Early , Presentation during the Innovative Teaching Ideas Workshop at the
Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law, July 2009.

X Marks the Spot; Piquing Students’ Interest in Research Early , Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, Tempe, Arizona, March 2009.

Co-presented, with Kirsten Dauphinais, an informational poster about the history of the Legal Writing Institute,
Biennial LWI conference, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, July 2008.

Hey, Here’s My Memo :)/Writing E-mail Professionally in Legal Practice ,
Presentation at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / ASSOCIATIONS / LICENSURE

Admitted to Practice

New York State
Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Washington, DC

Professional Association Memberships

American Bar Association

Member of the Legal Writing Institute

Assistant Editor of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute

Member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.

Professional Experience

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Washington, DC; New York, NY
Associate; Attorney, Litigation, 2003-2006
(Summer Associate – 2002) 

People For the American Way
Los Angeles, CA; Washington, DC
Interim L.A. Office Director, Deputy Field Director, 1996 – 2000