WELCOMING NEW FACULTY
TO UND LAW
K AT H R Y N R . L . R A N D
Dean, University of North Dakota
School of Law
This fall, we are fortunate to welcome two
new faculty to UND School of Law. Both
have strong ties to North Dakota (in fact,
both have previously taught at UND) and a
proven commitment to legal education. We
are glad to have two more talented teachers
and active scholars join our law school faculty
and our state’s legal profession.
Prior to joining our faculty, Kit Johnson was
an associate professor at the University of
Oklahoma College of Law and also was a
Visiting Assistant Professor at UND School
of Law from 2008 to 2012. A graduate of
Wesleyan University and the University of
California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School
of Law, Professor Johnson formerly was
an attorney with the Los Angeles law firm
of Munger,
Tolles & Olson
LLP, where
she practiced
general
commercial
litigation. Her
clients included
Berkshire
Hathaway,
Rambus, and
Brighton
Collectibles.
Professor Kit Johnson
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Professor Johnson also provided pro bono
representation in several adoption and
guardianship proceedings before the Los
Angeles County Courts. In addition, she
served on the board of directors of Inner
Circle Foster Care and Adoption Services,
a non-profit agency in California’s San
Fernando Valley. She also served as a law
clerk to the Honorable Pamela A. Rymer of
the United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Robert
C. Broomfield of the United States District
Court for the District of Arizona.
Professor Johnson has taught in the areas
of immigration, criminal law, federal courts,
and civil procedure. Her scholarship focuses
on the intersection of federal immigration
law and U.S. business interests. One of her
recent articles is “A Cost-Benefit Analysis
of the Federal Prosecution of Immigration
Crimes,” which was published in the Denver
University Law Review.
At UND, Professor Johnson will participate
in the ongoing redesign of our business
curriculum, including teaching a new and
improved Business Associations course. She
also will teach in the areas of trial advocacy
and immigration law.
Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich was, most
recently, an assistant professor at Barry
University School of Law, where she’s taught
in the area of legal research and writing.
Professor Mavrova Heinrich received her
J.D. from the UND School of Law, where
she was elected
to the Order
of the Coif
and Order
of Barristers.
While at law
school, she
served on the
North Dakota
Law Review
editorial
board, won the
“Outstanding
Professor Mavrova Heinrich
Student Case
Comment” award for her publication on
international treaty obligations, and served
as a teaching assistant in both the Lawyering
Skills and Academic Success programs. She
received her B.A. from Concordia College in
Moorhead, Minn.
Professor Mavrova Heinrich began her
legal career as a law clerk to Justice Mary
Muehlen Maring of the North Dakota
Supreme Court. She then spent a year as a
judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kermit E.
Bye of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit. During that time, she
also served as an adjunct faculty member in
Concordia College’s mock trial program. She
served as a faculty fellow at UND School of
Law from 2012 to 2014.
Professor Mavrova Heinrich’s teaching and
research focuses on practice-centered legal
education. She recently published an article
on teaching and assessing professional