Kendra Fershee
Visiting 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
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / ASSOCIATIONS / LICENSURE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Dakota School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor, August, 2007-present
Courses Taught:
- Lawyering Skills I
- Lawyering Skills II
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
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).
Empty Promises - How Title IX Fails Pregnant Public School Students
Work in progress
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
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
