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Contemporary Issues in Indian Law Conference

Stanford Law School Ÿ February 7, 2014

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Schedule

Thursday, February 6, 2014     Stanford Law School, Room 185

7:30 PM – 6:30 PM     Crash Course on Indian Law with Karen Biestman

This session will provide students with an overview and background to Indian law that will be useful for the following day’s program.  All students welcome!

· Karen Biestman, Associate Dean & Director of the Stanford Native American Cultural Center, and Stanford Law School Lecturer in Law
Friday, February 7, 2014     Stanford Law School, Room 290

8:30 AM – 9: 15 AM     Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM    Modern Indian Law in the Context of Recent Supreme Court Cases

· Bethany Berger, Professor of Real Property Law at UConn School of Law

· Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law (my paper here)

· Kristen Carpenter, Associate Professor of Law & Co-Director, American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School

· Moderator: Deborah Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School

· Co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM     Tribal Jurisdictional Issues and VAWA

· Carole Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law

· Wenona Singel, Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law

· Wilson Pipestem, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Ietan Consulting

· Moderator: Maggie McKinley, Post-Doctoral Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

· Co-sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice and Women of Stanford Law

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM     Lunch and Keynote Address with Angela Riley

· Introduction: Karen Biestman, Associate Dean & Director of the Stanford Native American Cultural Center

·      Angela Riley, Professor of Law, Director of UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Director of MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM     Gaming and Tribal Compacting

· Kathryn Rand, Dean & Professor of Law, Co-Director Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy at University of North Dakota School of Law

· Dr. Steven Light, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota College of Business and Public Administration

· Wilson Pipestem, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Ietan Consulting

· Sanford Kingsley, Partner, Native American Law and Policy Practice Group at Dentons LLP

· Moderator: John Maier, Partner at Maier Pfeffer Kim Geary & Cohen LLP

· Co-sponsored by Stanford Law and Business Association
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM     Resources on Reservations

· Robert Anderson, Director of the Native American Law Center and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law

· Seth Davis, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School

· Buzz Thompson, Professor of Natural Resources Law, Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University

· Co-sponsored by Stanford Law School Environmental Law Society
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM     Networking Reception