Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher

SALT Virtual Series — Incorporating Anti-Racism Frameworks into Core Law School Classes

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

SALT Virtual Series: Social Justice in Action

 

Incorporating Anti-Racism Frameworks into Core Law School Classes

 

THURSDAY, July 30 at 3:00 pm

Register Here:  https://bit.ly/2Oewk1K
SALT encourages law schools across the country to take affirmative steps to promote justice, eradicate racism and support their law school communities in light of pervasive injustices. SALT is proud to announce a virtual series featuring law school teachers sharing their expertise on how to educate the next generation of lawyers, support students of color and dismantle structural inequality and racism in the United States. We will host monthly panel discussions on ways to combat racism and promote equity in law school. This work will include presentations on the integration of anti-racist frameworks in classes, promoting equity and inclusion in online teaching, anti-racist faculty hiring practices, and racialized trauma and fatigue.

The first session, Incorporating Anti-Racism Frameworks into Core Law School Classes, will be on July 30, 2020 at 3pm ET.

To attend, please register in advance at: https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpf-msqzgiG91326VGLxmLZpW9GUHGbiCn

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

See below for information on upcoming panels. More to come!

Incorporating Anti-Racism Frameworks into Core Law School Classes
– July 30, 2020 3pm ET – 4pm ET –

Promoting Equity and Inclusion in Online Teaching
–  August  21, 2020 3pm ET – 4pm ET –

Racialized Trauma and Fatigue Among Academic Activists
–  September 18, 2020 3pm ET – 4pm ET –

Anti-Racist Hiring Practices
–  October 16, 2020 3pm ET – 4pm ET –

NYTs: “For Oklahoma Tribe, Vindication at Long Last”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Stacy Leeds on the Policing Impacts of McGirt

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From Slate, here is “What the Landmark Supreme Court Decision Means for Policing Indigenous Oklahoma: For Indigenous people, cries of ‘law and order’ have always contained a loaded message.”

Also in Slate, Mark Joseph Stern’s “Why Gorsuch Keeps Joining the Liberals to Affirm Tribal Rights.“

Washington SCT Vacates 105-Year Old Opinion Rejecting Treaty Rights Defense for Yakama Fisher

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the order in State of Washington v. Towessnute:

13083-3 Order

Here are a couple contemporaneous newspaper accounts:

The Spokesman Review, Sat., Feb. 5, 1916

The Oregon Daily Journal, Thu., June 1, 1916

Opinion Piece on Black Freedmen Descendants of the Five Civilized Tribes

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “Black Lives Matter for Freedmen Descendants of the Five Civilized Tribes.”

Kirsten Carlson Commentary on McGirt v. Oklahoma

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow federal law,” in The Conversation.

Other commentaries —

Bob Miller on VOA.

Ronald Mann on SCOTUSblog.

Ian Millhiser on VOX.

Atlantic Piece on How Union Monuments in the West Celebrate the Killing of Indian People

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West — During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.”

Bloomberg: “Supreme Court Tribal Treaty Decision Praised as Game Changer”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

SCOTUS Remands Four Okla. Criminal Cases, Grants Cert in Financial Services Cases Involving Tribal Businesses

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is today’s order list.

The Court granted review in AMG Capital Management LLC v. Federal Trade Commission. Here is the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in FTC v. AMG Capital Management LLC. District court materials here.

NYTs: “Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma Is Indian Reservation”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

A wildly overblown headline, but here you go anyway.

Here’s another one, from CNBC: “Supreme Court says eastern half of Oklahoma is Native American land.”

And WSJ: “American Indian Lands Include Eastern Oklahoma, Supreme Court Rules.”

And NPR gets in on the action: “Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land.”