UND School of Law Annual Homecoming CLE
Please make plans to join us for programming presented by our outstanding faculty!
Friday, September 19, 2025
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
VandeWalle Courtoom | School of Law
North Dakota and Minnesota CLE credits pending
Schedule
9:00-9:30 a.m. | Check in and Registration | Central Commons
9:30-10:30 a.m. | Session I (60 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
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Presented by Professor Erick Resek
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10:30-10:45 a.m. | Break
10:45-11:45 a.m. | Session II (60 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
Overturning the Chevron Doctrine: The Supreme Court's Road to Limiting Regulatory Authority
Presented by Professor Paul Traynor
This presentation will discuss the implications for of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enters. V. Raimondo (also known as the Chevron case) as well as successive cases that has the U.S. Supreme Court further limiting government regulation. The decision, which assigns the determination of ambiguities in congressional laws to the judicial branch, is likely to have major consequences for administrative law across sectors of the U.S. economy and affect multiple regulatory agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Science Foundation (NSF).
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Session III (30 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
Judicial Independence in Poland
Presented by Rector Dr. Maciej Rogalski
Rector Dr. Maciej Rogalski and a delegation from Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland, will discuss their work on judicial independence in Poland. The delegation is touring North Dakota and visiting institutions of higher education, with a focus on programs in law, business and medicine. The presentation will complement last year’s Fode Lecture presented by Judge Igor Tuleya of the Warsaw, Poland, District Court.
12:15-1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Central Commons
1:30-2:30 p.m. | Session IV (60 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
Assessing Risk & Protecting Personal Data: An EU Approach to Artificial Intelligence as a Model for the ABA's Model Rules
Presented by Professor Jennifer Cook
This presentation will examine the risk that attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence in law practice poses to a client’s privacy, personal data, and confidential information, and offer a comparison of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) and European Union’s (EU) differing approaches to providing guardrails for the use of AI technology. It will also suggest the ABA consider integrating the EU’s risk-based AI classification system and data protection requirements into its Model Rules of Professional Conduct to help prepare attorneys to utilize generative AI tools ethically—with privacy and confidentiality in mind.
2:30-2:45 p.m. | Break
2:45-3:45 p.m. | Session V (60 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
Navigating Juvenile Court
Presented by Professor Daniel Gast
This session will give an overview of juvenile law covering delinquency, child protection, and termination of parental rights, with practical insights into statutes, case law, and courtroom issues in delinquency and child welfare.
3:45-4:00 p.m. | Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. | Session VI (60 minutes) | VandeWalle Courtroom
Tentative Insights on Race, Economics, and Crime, and the Problems with Crime Data
Presented by Professor Steven Morrison
This CLE will present data analysis regarding the potential association between economic inequality and crime as well as race and crime, asking the question whether either economic inequality or race can predict crime. It will offer some tentative conclusions, but will then show why, in the context of U.S. crime, any data-driven insights must be treated very carefully, since crime data in the U.S. isn’t readily susceptible to data analysis. This CLE may be of interest to anyone interested in crime in the U.S., the role of race and economic inequality in crime, and anyone interested in understanding more about how data analysis may impact decisions in the legal context.
Please plan to join us at the conclusion of the CLE for our Alumni & Friends Social in the Central Commons.
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