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The PUBLIC LAND & RESOURCES LAW REVIEW invites submissions for panelist presentations at its 37th Public Land Law Conference, Bridging Divides: Energy, Environment, and Empowerment in a New Era. The conference will be held at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana in beautiful Missoula, Montana. Our invited keynote speaker is U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
This year’s LSAC Diversity Writing Competition topic is “Why Pipeline Programs Targeting Students from Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds are Essential to the Future of the Legal Profession.” Current JD candidates are invited to submit papers addressing this topic. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 31, 2017, and LSAC will award three $5000 prizes to the best paper submitted by a 1L, 2L, and 3L/4L. In addition, one winner will have a chance to publish their entry in the Journal of Legal Education.
We know there are law students following Turtle Talk who could write excellent papers on this topic. LSAC’s rules for submissions are here.
Award-winning Standing Rock Sioux poet Tiffany Midge is soliciting poetry and artwork protesting DAPL for publication in broadsides for Broadside Press.
The full call is below:
http://broadsidedpress.org/responses/2016dapl/
Broadsided Special Features: Responses: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Protests at Standing Rock, 2016
At Broadsided Press, we believe that art and literature inspire and demonstrate the vitality and depth of our connection with the world. Art operates beyond the news cycle, connects surface information to deeper truths, and honors and what it attends.
We had to speak out—we had to make a space for you to speak out as artists and writers—on the continuing resistance at Standing Rock to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Send us poems, short-shorts, and artwork in response to Standing Rock. Full guidelines for length etc are available on our website.
With the help of guest editor Tiffany Midge, we will bring your work into broadsides for people to consider and share. Each broadside will feature the work of one visual artist and one literary artist, the combinations thereof selected and designed by the editors.
Submissions by those involved with the action (you are free to define what this means) are free.
DEADLINE: January 10, 2017
PUBLICATION: On or around February 1, 2017
Tiffany Midge’s poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press) won the Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. She is a humor columnist for Indian Country Today and an assistant poetry editor for The Rumpus. Her work is featured in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Waxwing, Okey-Pankey, and Moss. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux (Hunkpapa Lakota). Follow her on Twitter @TiffanyMidge
The American Indian Law Journal, published by the Seattle University School of Law, is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the spring and fall 2017 issues. The American Indian Law Journal serves as a vital online resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to Indian law practitioners and scholars across the country.
The deadline for submissions for the spring issue is January 15, 2017. The deadline for submissions for the fall issue is July 15, 2017. The editing process for publication begins soon after these dates for each respective issue. The American Indian Law Journal respectfully requests that authors please use footnotes rather than endnotes. All footnotes should conform to the 20th edition of The Bluebook.
The American Indian Law Journal accepts articles and abstracts for consideration from students, practitioners, and law school faculty members. For more information or to submit an article, please contact Brenda L. George, Editor-in-Chief, sticeb@seattleu.edu.
The Office for Victims of Crime and the Tribal Law and Policy Institute are extending this invitation to participate as a presenter at the 15th National Indian Nations Conference. Workshop presentations should demonstrate methods and strategies to improve safety, as well as promote justice and healing for crime victims through cooperation, and collaboration between Tribal, Federal, State, local and private entities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Target Audience: The target audience is all persons interested in assisting victims of crime in Indian country including:
Indian Country Service Providers (Tribal, State, and Federal):
Tribal Community Members:
We welcome presentation ideas for all levels of experience/knowledge. Presenters must demonstrate expertise in working with Native American communities. Selection Criteria for Workshops will include:
Workshops must conform to the Conference Theme “Harnessing Our Collective Wisdom: Strengthening the Circle of Safety, Justice and Healing” and one or more of the Conference Goals (below):
Formal Justice Department Conference Approval Pending.
Questions: Tribal Law and Policy Institute, P: 3236505467 ~ F: 3236508149
Email: Conference@TLPI.org, Website: http://www.OVCINC.org
Mailing address:
Tribal Law and Policy Institute
8235 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 211
West Hollywood, CA 90046
Here (Solicitation Letter):
Here. If you have any questions, you can email info@naicja.org
The National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) invites presentation proposals for the 47th Annual National Tribal Judicial and Court Personnel Conference which will be held October 18-21, 2016, at the magnificent Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, CA. NAICJA’s Annual Conference offers innovative and timely tribal justice information through high quality presentations by national experts. The theme of this year’s conference is, “Tribal Justice Matters: Role of Tribal Courts in Upholding Indigenous Rights.” NAICJA is featuring topics that highlight ways in which American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and First Nations justice systems are exercising and upholding tribal inherent rights. We are especially interested in presentations that focus on social justice and human rights, tribal sovereignty, international frameworks for understanding indigenous issues, promising Indian child welfare practices, court security and topics of interest to court clerks and court personnel.
This is your opportunity to share your expertise and display your creativity by developing an original program for presentation. Proposals specifically tailored to meet the needs of the 300-person NAICJA audience are strongly preferred. Proposals are due on or before Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. (MTN).
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13th ANNUAL MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY INDIGENOUS LAW CONFERENCE
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TRIBAL IN-HOUSE COUNSEL ASSOCIATION LAW CONFERENCE
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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
INDIGENOUS LAW AND POLICY CENTER
NOVEMBER 3-4, 2016
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
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TICA members interested in presenting on the following topics focusing on the tribal in-house practice of law are invited to submit proposals:
Deadline for formal proposals is February 1, 2016. Please keep proposals to 300 words or less.
Want to present but aren’t a member? Become a TICA member at www.tribalinhousecounsel.com.
MSU will cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers selected for the conference. We will be applying for CLE credits for the conference and so speakers must prepare written materials. MSU can provide research support for speakers in preparing materials, if requested.
Primary contacts:
Doreen N. McPaul, TICA President (Doreen.McPaul@tonation-nsn.gov)
Matthew L.M. Fletcher (matthew.fletcher@law.msu.edu)
Kathryn E. Fort (fort@law.msu.edu)
Sarah Donnelly (donnel93@law.msu.edu)
The Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance (IPJLCR) is accepting submissions for Volume 3. Submissions are being accepted until December 31, 2015.
IPJLCR is a law journal at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law that is interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of academic articles, legal commentary, poetry, songs, stories, and artwork. We are soliciting scholarly articles and student comments written about legal issues important to Indigenous communities and Native People in the United States and throughout the world, as well as works by artists that relate to or comment on legal issues. We also seek works on issues or aspects of life in Native communities that are impacted by law, whether tribal law or the laws of nation-states.
IPJLCR has been out of publication since 2005 and its renewal at the law school is due to a group of dedicated students committed to Native issues, federal Indian law, and tribal law. Past issues include: a letter to the United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about the Lyng case, an essay by Joy Harjo on resistance, writings by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, poetry by Sara Littlecrow-Russell, Mahealani Kamauu, and Shawna Shandiin Sunrise, artwork by Elizabeth Whipple and Nadema Agard Winyan Luta Red Woman, as well as photography by Anna Tsouhlarakis.
Email Submissions to: ipjlcr@lawnet.ucla.edu
Requirements: Each submission should be sent as one Microsoft Word file with Bluebook formatted citations (20th ed. 2015). Brief bios are required, as well as 12 pt Times New Roman typed font, paginated, and should include: your name, address, phone number, and email address in the header of the first page.
American Indian Law Journal Call for Papers
The American Indian Law Journal, published by the Seattle University School of Law, is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the Spring 2015 issue. The American Indian Law Journal serves as a vital online resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to Indian law practitioners and scholars across the country. The deadline for submissions for the Spring issue is November 1, 2015. The editing process for publication begins soon after this date.
If you are interested in submitting an article to the journal, please e-mail chug@seattleu.edu
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