Biography

Alex Sickler is an Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law, where she teaches contracts, bankruptcy, and commercial law courses. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of consumer finance and bankruptcy laws.  Before joining UND, Professor Sickler was a trial attorney with the U.S. Trustee Program in Washington, D.C. While there, she litigated civil enforcement matters arising in consumer bankruptcy cases and participated in the U.S. Trustee Program’s initiatives to monitor mortgage creditor conduct. Before that, she practiced bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation in the Washington, D.C. office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and clerked for the Honorable S. Martin Teel, Jr., U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia.

Professor Sickler earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and her J.D. with high honors from The George Washington University Law School, where she was named to the Order of the Coif and was an Articles Editor forThe George Washington International Law Review.

Professor Sickler's articles can be found on her SSRN page.