Central States Law Schools Association (CSLSA) 2026 Annual Scholarship Conference

Pre-Conference Dinner Meetup

We will have a section of the restaurant reserved with pizzas and appetizers ordered throughout the evening. Please join us for this pre-conference meetup as your arrival schedule allows!

Short or Tall Surly Pizza & Taproom
2600 Red Jarrett Way
Grand Forks, ND 58203

Central Commons
UND School of Law
(Enter via the North Entrance))

Bethany Gullman:
Augment, Automate, Agentify, or Keep Human: How Law Schools Can Prepare Students for Ethical Human-Artificial Intelligence Collaboration

Parvej Ahmed and Woei Hung:
Honing Law Students' Legal Writing Competency with an AI Personal Coach: Does It Work?

Evan Absher:
Remorse: A Theory for AI and Society

Room 8
Lower Level

Julia Ernst:
Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution: One People Advancing Toward a More Perfect Union

Reginald Oh:
A More Perfect Union: Spiritual Original Meaning & the Preamble

Matthew Kim:
Rethinking Criminal Juries

Kimberly Dasse, Priyanka Ravi, and Kaniah Jackson:
Menstrual Justice in Rural Communities: Access, Education, and Attitudes

Stacey Tovino:
Secrecy in Session

Peter Larsen:
Honking as Protected Speech? Cutting Through the Noise

Session Two

Patrick Perkins:
The Market as Meme Stock: Retirement Architecture, Inelastic Markets, and the Missing Institution

Gregory Dickinson:
A Feedback Theory of Compelled Commercial Disclosure

Brian Frye:
Against Intellectual Landlordism, For Intellectual Abundance

Tim Holbrook:
The Article III Fiction of Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation

Tracy Pearl:
The Automation Illusion

Jon Lee:
Publicizing Attorney Discipline

Thao Tran:
Naming the Hidden Skills: Executive Function Informed Design

Maybell Romero:
Accountable Insider Scholarship

Lunch, Welcome Remarks, and Presentation

Central Commons
Ground Level (Lobby)

Session Three

Grant Christensen:
Indian Tribes and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Grace Carson:
Living Justice: Alaska Tribes and Justice Beyond Criminal Jurisdiction

Aila Hoss:
Enforcing Indigenous Health Justice

Room 8
Lower Level

Bailey Barnes:
Qualified Immunity's Safety Valve: The Obvious Violation Exception

Gregory Brazeal:
Reconstructing the Department of Justice Office for Civil Rights

Rongyou Gao:
The Consolidation of Policing Power on Campus —As Illustrated by Student Movement 1969 at Emory

Room 203

Brandy Johnson:
Simple Justice: Rethinking the Burden-Shifting Framework for Existing Structures Under Title III of the ADA

Patrick Cothern:
Scaling Permanence: Community Land Trusts, Mortgage Markets, and the Legal Conditions of Affordable Homeownership

Milton Hernandez:
Delta Death Disadvantages: Inequities in Cohabitant Estate Protections in Louisiana and Mississippi

Room 334

Session Four

Bao Kham Chau:
Shadow Judgment: AI and the Administrative Record

Nikola Datzov:
AIth Cicruit Court of Appeals

Room 203

Pooja Wadhavani:
AI Compute Infrastructure and Climate Obligations: Towards an International Legal Framework for Sustainable AI Governance

Samantha Moppett:
The Human Touch Meets the Critical Mind: Lawyering After GenAI

Marilyn Hajj:
Rate Your Experience: Comparative Lessons for Gig Work

Room 334

Historic Guided Walking Tour of Downtown Grand Forks

Welcome Reception & Dinner

Please join us for a welcome reception and dinner starting at 7:00 p.m. Guests may enjoy a drink at the historic Club Lounge, featuring an antique Quaint Mortier Organ shipped from Belgium. A variety of dishes will be served buffet-style at stations throughout the Club Lounge. 

Ralph Engelstad Arena - South Club Lounge
One Ralph Engelstad Arena Drive
Grand Forks, ND 58203

Central Commons
UND School of Law
(Enter via the North Entrance)

Mark Graber:
The Constitution of April 9, 1866

Quinn Yeargain:
Shadow Exclusionary Rules

Raff Donelson:
Gangs, Mafias, and the Nature of Law

Ying Zhou:
Risk Acceptance and Control in Developer Money-Laundering Prosecutions: A Comparative EU-U.S. Mens Rea Study

Nachman Gutowski:
Silver State, Gold Standard: The (New) Nevada Bar

Ieisha Humphrey:
High Stakes Without the Harm: Trauma-Informed Bar Prep

Jane Davidson:
Music Unfiltered: Developing A Filtration Framework for Extrinsic Substantial Similarity

Bao Kham Chau:
Generative AI and the Limits of Patent Law

Lunch & Wrap Up Discussion

Central Commons
UND School of Law