Student Activities

Wisconsin ILSA’s 25th Annual Conference Agenda (March 25-26, 2011)

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2011 Conference

25th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference

ILSA will be hosting its 25th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference at the University of Wisconsin Law School March 25-26, 2011.

Thursday night we will have a reception to welcome our guests at Brocach Irish Pub from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

FRIDAY:

Welcome, Drum Ceremony and Prayer at 9:30 am, room 2260

Risky Investments? Tribal Debt & Finance After Wells Fargo v. Lake of Torches
9:45-11:15 am, room 2260
Aaron Harkins
Gavin Clarkson
Jeff Carey

Workers Rights Meet Tribal Sovereignty
11:15 am-12:30 pm, room 2260
Dawn Baum
D. Michael McBride
Kevin Wadzinski

ILSA and 25 Years of Federal Indian Law and Policy
Keynote by Larry Roberts, general counsel, NIGC
1:45-2:45 pm, room 2260

Dueling Sovereigns: Collecting Taxes in Indian Country
3-4:30 pm, room 2260
Brian Pierson
Jed Roher
Gabe Galanda
Anthony Broadman

Reception with special guest Edmund Manydeeds
5-7 pm, Law School Atrium
Mr. Manydeeds is a UW Law alumnus, civil trial attorney, and member of the UW Board of Regents. He has served on the governor’s Judicial Selection Committee and with the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

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Final Results in 2011 NNALSA Moot Court Competition @ Columbia

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Best Advocate (team)
First Place – Keani Alapa & H. Maxwell Kopper – University of Hawaii
Second Place – Briana Coyle & Andy Murphy – University of Washington
Third Place – Jenny Patten & Jason Hipp – Columbia Law School

Best Oralist (individual)
First Place – Amy Conners – Columbia Law School
Second Place – Ayman Mourad – Lewis & Clark Law School
Third Place (tied) – Sherri Mitchell, University of Arizona & Elika Stimpson, University of Hawaii

Best Brief
First Place – Jacqueline de Armas & Maureen Keffer – Stanford Law School
Second Place – Beth Baldwin & Anne Mariah Tapp – University of Colorado
Third Place – Libby Moulton & Inbar Gal – Columbia Law School

 

National NALSA Moot Court Call for Judges!!!! [UPDATED]

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Volunteer to judge the Competition! Sign up here!

The National NALSA Moot Court Competition is an annual event held by the Native American Law Students Association. On February 25 & 26, 2011, the Competition will be held at Columbia Law School. Teams from law schools across the country will head to New York City to compete against each other. The Competition also provides an opportunity for law students interested in Federal Indian and Tribal law to meet each other and practitioners, and to enjoy New York City.

The Competition begins with the release of the Problem, written each year by a leading scholar in Federal Indian and Tribal Law, in the fall. Team registrations were due Dec. 6, with the late registration deadline Dec. 18. Based off of the Problem, teams of two write an appellate-level brief on behalf of one of the parties in the suit. The Briefs are due in mid-January. At Competition, teams compete against each other in oral argument rounds, arguing for both parties over several rounds. Awards are given out for Best Briefs, Best Oral Advocates, and Best Advocates. For more information, please see the Moot Court Rules.

For more information about Columbia Law School’s NALSA Chapter, please visit our website. For information about how Columbia runs their Moot Court program, please read this pdf.

MSU NALSA Art Fair — Jan. 21, 2011

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Shinnecock Tribal Member Receives First AIGC Fellowship

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From ICT:

The American Indian Graduate Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving cultural and economic well-being for individuals and tribes through undergraduate and graduate education, recently announced that it has awarded its first fellowship scholarship to a Shinnecock Indian Nation member.

Members of the Shinnecock Nation, which became the 565th Native American tribe recognized by the United States government earlier this year, were formerly ineligible for the fellowship program because the tribe lacked federal recognition.

Kelly Dennis, a law student at the University of New Mexico School of Law in Albuquerque, N.M., received the $3,000 fellowship award. A member of the Shinnecock Nation, graduate of the Pre-Law Summer Institute at the American Indian Law Center, and participant in the American Indian Law Certificate Program, Dennis hopes to represent her tribe and other underrepresented American Indian tribes upon her graduation.

“Kelly would like to use her expertise to assist tribes striving to find creative paths that will strengthen and rebuild their nations,” said Sam Deloria, AIGC director. “AIGC recognizes the potential of these dreams and considers it a privilege to lessen the financial burden of paying for a law degree in order to achieve such aspirations. And we like to hope that her award marks the first federal assistance to the Shinnecock Nation.”

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National NALSA Writing Competition Announcement

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Here is the flyer.

William Mitchell NALSA is the host.

National NALSA Moot Court Problem ONLINE Now

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Here is the Columbia NALSA moot court page.

And the direct link to the problem.

2010 Pre-Law Summer Institute Award Winners

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Watch out for this group!

The winners of the book awards for 2010 are:

Overall Best Student: Tanner Amdur-Clark (Citizen Potawatomi)

Advocacy: Victoria Hatch (White Earth Ojibwe) and Aubony Burns (Oklahoma Choctaw)

Oralist: Katie Parker (Oklahoma Choctaw) and Lucas LaRose (Northern Cheyenne and Winnebago Tribe)

Indian Law: Matt Murdock (MHA Nation and Standing Rock)

Property: Tim Cornelius (Wisconsin Oneida)

Civil Procedure: Madison Simmons (Chickasaw)

National NALSA Job Fair: Aug. 26-27 in Denver

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Here.

CIC-AIS Graduate Conference Prize Winners

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Dear Colleagues:

Please spread the news that all three of the submitted prize winners at the recent graduate conference were women!!!   FIRST PRIZE went to Nicole Marie Keway for her remarkable paper on Emerson:  “The Piquancy of Particularity: Emersonian Savages and Speaking Beyond the Woods.”  The SECOND PRIZE winner was Sandra Garner for “Rhetorics of Traditions: Troubling Tradition in the Lakota Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality” –  Sandra is completing her degree at Ohio State University and will be at Miami University as a post-doc this fall.  Finally, a law student, Adrea Korthase, received THIRD PRIZE for her work on the “Kennecott Eagle Mineral Project and the Need for a Michigan Religious Protection Act.”

To see these outstanding women, please go to our website —  http://www.msu.edu/~cicaisc/ –  you can see their pictures as well as many of the other participants.  Conference planning, spearheaded by Susan Krouse, the director of the MSU AISP and her able assistant, Sakina Hughes, made this another memorable event.  The University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Ohio State, and the University of Michigan added a tremendous variety of  new scholarly approaches to the program – be sure to look at the program, which is on-line at our website.

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Director, CIC-AIS Consortium