2020 North Dakota Law Review Symposium

Celebrating over 130 years of the North Dakota Constitution.

The symposium is presented by the North Dakota Law Review and the University of North Dakota School of Law. If you have questions, please contact Alexandra.Carthew@UND.edu or Logan.R.Carpenter@UND.edu

Symposium Access

To access the link to the live feed for the Symposium, please complete the Symposium Check-In form.
After completing the form, the web link to the live feed will appear in the response. You can check in anytime from now until the program begins on Monday August 17.
You do not need to be previously registered to participate, just check-in to access the link and attend.

NDLR Constitutional Law Symposium Brochure

About North Dakota Constitutional Law Symposium

The University of North Dakota School of Law has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in the state and on campus as we near August 17. After consulting with the UND Safety Office and working through the stringent event approval guidelines required by the University of North Dakota, the difficult decision was made that the Law Review Symposium will be moved to a virtual platform for all participants.

Amended and Approved

North Dakota 7.25 total - 6.25 hours of ND CLE credits and 1.0 hour of ND Ethics CLE credit
Minnesota 7.25 total - 6.25 hours of Standard CLE credit and 1.0 hour of Ethics CLE credit.

Please RSVP for the virtual Law Review Symposium below.

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Schedule

9:00 – 9:15 AM Welcome Remarks
Dean Michael McGinniss, University of North Dakota School of Law

9:15 – 10:00 AM The Secret Sources of the North Dakota Constitution
Nicholas Samuelson, Stutsman County Assistant State’s Attorney

10:00 – 10:45 AM Evolution of the Initiated Measure Process by Constitutional Amendment
Senator David Hogue, District 38

10:45 – 11:00 AM Break

11:00 – 11:30 AM Legalized Marijuana in North Dakota
Assistant Attorney General Tara Brandner

11:30 – 12:00 PM Sorum v. State
Terrance Moore, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:00 PM Originalism and the North Dakota Constitution
Justice Jerod Tufte, North Dakota Supreme Court

2:00 – 3:00 PM 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
Judge Jeffrey Sutton, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

3:00 – 3:15 PM Break

3:15 – 4:15 PM North Dakota Legislative Assembly v. Burgum
Deputy Solicitor General Jim Nicolai

4:15 – 5:00 PM Birchfield v. North Dakota
Rachael Steenholdt, Assistant Federal Public Defender

5:00 – 6:00 PM Ethics Commission Panel
Levi Andrist, GA Group, PC
Senator Erin Oban, District 35
Representative Shannon Roers Jones, District 46
Moderated by Leslie Bakken Oliver, General Counsel, Office of the Governor

Check In/Live Link Information

If you would like to attend the symposium, please check in by completing the Symposium Check-In form. After completing the form, the web link to the live feed will appear in the response. You can check in anytime from now until the program begins on Monday August 17.

You do not need to be previously registered to check in to attend the symposium, just do the check-in to access the link to attend.

If you previously checked in and forgot or lost the link, please check in again.