Kimberlie Orr

Staff Attorney, Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic
Term Teaching Professor of Law

Office: 1338 Biolchini Hall of Law
Phone: 574-631-0869
Email: korr2@nd.edu

Kimberlie Orr is a Term Teaching Professor and Staff Attorney for the Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic, where she teaches and mentors students working on matters related to international law, immigration law, and freedom of religion or belief. She directs the Clinic’s representation of religious asylum seekers in the United States and its international advocacy initiatives alongside governments, international organizations, and civil society partners addressing religious persecution issues worldwide.

Before joining Notre Dame Law School in 2023, Orr was selected through the Department of Justice Honors Program to serve as a judicial law clerk with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. She also served as an asylum officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and as a policy analyst with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition, she worked with the Volunteer Lawyers Project as a mentor attorney for its pro bono immigration project.

Orr earned her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Brigham Young University and a Master of Global Affairs from the Keough School of Global Affairs, where she specialized in forced displacement policy and international peace studies. She also completed the Religion and the Rule of Law certificate program through the International Center for Law and Religion Studies Oxford Program.