Michigan State University College of Law invites applications to fill a faculty appointment as the Director of its newly-formed Civil Rights Clinic beginning in the 2011-2012 academic year. Students participating in this unique clinical opportunity, created at the request of the United States District Court Judges, Western District, Michigan, will litigate a variety of civil rights claims initiated by state prisoners concerning the conditions of their confinement. The Director will have primary responsibility for teaching and supervising students enrolled in the Civil Rights Clinic, and will oversee all activities of the Civil Rights Clinic during the semesters in which it operates. In addition to teaching and supervising students, key responsibilities will include: (1) administering all aspects of the Civil Rights Clinic, including budgeting, grant seeking and grant administration, supervising other staff, etc.; (2) creating and coordinating opportunities for collaboration with other nonprofit entities interested in prisoner rights; (3) participating in Michigan and national organizations relating to prisoners’ civil rights; (4) overseeing day-to-day operations of the clinic including maintaining caseloads, conducting case reviews/status conferences with students, appearing with students in court, and teaching in the classroom component of the Civil Rights Clinic; and (5) actively participating in the work of the Law College community.
Announcements
National NALSA Writing Competition Announcement
Here is the flyer.
William Mitchell NALSA is the host.
National NALSA Moot Court Problem ONLINE Now
Here is the Columbia NALSA moot court page.
And the direct link to the problem.
IRS Seeking Indian Tax-Exempt Bonds Advisory Committee
Here is the posting: IR-2010-109
MSU NALSA to Host Panel on Federal Recognition — Nov. 8 @ 7:30PM
The members of the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA) at Michigan State University College of Law invite you to attend the following panel discussion on Monday, November 8, 2010 at 7:30pm in the Castle Boardroom of the law school building.
What Does it Mean to be Federally Recognized?
There are currently 565 federally recognized tribes in the United States, but there are many others that do not have the benefit of that distinction. John Shagonaby, Curtis Chambers, and Matthew Fletcher will discuss their unique perspectives on this issue.
John L. Shagonaby is the Chief Executive Officer of the Gun Lake (federally recognized) Tribal Gaming Authority. John started this role in March 2004. Previously, John served as the Executive Director of the Tribe’s administrative office. John has also served on the Tribal Council for 12 years as a Council Member, Treasurer and Vice-Chairman.
Curtis Chambers, Chairman of the Burt Lake Band (non-federally recognized) was re-elected on August 9, 2008. He is also the Harbormaster of Cheboygan County Marina and a devout Catholic.
Curtis’s first priority for the Burt Lake Band is to be federally recognized. His second goal is to provide housing and health care to Burt Lake Band members. He also believes that diversity in business is a necessity to help move the tribe into the future.
Matthew Fletcher is Director of the MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the first tribe to be federally recognized under the Department of Interior’s federal acknowledgment process. He is the author of a forthcoming legal and political history of the Grand Traverse Band (Michigan State University Press).
UNM Symposium on Montana v. United States
From the flyer:
Montana v. United States
Pathmarking the Field of Indian Law for Three Decades and Counting
Sponsored by UNM Law and the UNM Indian Law Program
March 24-25, 2011
Isleta Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Albuquerque, NM
On March 24, 1981, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Montana v. United States, a case that addressed several important issues concerning tribes’ treaty rights, property interests, and sovereign governing authority on Indian reservations. Despite its inauspicious beginnings as a dispute over who controls access to a highly prized trout fishery on the Big Horn River within the exterior boundaries of the Crow Reservation, Montana since has served as juggernaut for a number of unprecedented changes to core doctrines of federal Indian law, all of them detrimental to tribes. The University of New Mexico School of Law and the UNM Indian Law Program will convene a one-and-a-half-day symposium—beginning on Thursday, March 24, 2011, thirty years to the day since the case was decided—to engage law professors, jurists, practicing attorneys, tribal leaders, and Indian law students in a wide-ranging reflection on Montana, including how the litigation originated and unfolded, how the case has impacted Indian law doctrines, and what potential pathways lie ahead for tribes and states in view of Montana’s enormous continuing influence.
New Share Buttons
While we’d like to take credit for adding the print, email, Twitter, Facebook and Digg share buttons to each Turtle Talk post, in truth it is a WordPress upgrade that allows us to do it.
Regardless, a number of readers have asked us for these functions, and we are happy to finally be able to add them to TT.
Univ. of New Mexico Law School Symposium on 30 Years of Montana v. U.S.
Here is the flyer: UNM Montana Symposium Flyer.
The symposium will be March 24-25, 2011, at Isleta Pueblo Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
New Book on the Doctrine of Discovery in Commonwealth Countries
Discovering Indigenous Lands
Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt and Tracey Lindberg
This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
Last Call for Papers — Indigenous Law Journal
Here: ILJ Call for Submissions
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