Symposia

TICA 2025 Pics — Part 3

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Scott Crowell, Denise Walsh, Sam Cohen, Cassondra Church, and Doreen McPaul
Scott, Denise, Sam
TICA Board
Greg Bigler’s Bow Tie
Harrison (“Ford”) Rice and Kristen Carpenter
Ethics Panel! — Roshanna Toya, Lauren van Schilfgaarde, April Olson
J. Wash. + Fletcher + Doreen
Doreen + Wenona

TICA 2025 Pics — Part 2

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Keynote Speaker John Plata [and the Ortego chapeau]
Jill Grant, Natalie Landreth, Lena Ortega, and Sam Cohen
April Olson, Lenny Powell, LaTonia Johnson, and Kendra Martinez
The heroes of TICA 2025

TICA 2025 Pics — Part 1

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Doreen McPaul & James Washinawatok
Alexander Mallory, Katie Klass, and Rebecca Patterson
TICA “Party Bus”
MC Cassondra Church

UMich-Ross 3rd Annual Native American Heritage Month Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Forrest Cox
Andrea Wilkerson

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U of A 2nd Annual Symposium Honoring Vine Deloria, Jr.’s Legacy

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center (U.Wis.) November Symposium: “Native Voices & the Environment”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
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AALS Panel on The Rule of Law, Lawyers, and Indigenous Rights

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Rule of Law, Lawyers, and Indigenous Rights
Date: Wednesday, October 22 at 3:00 pm ET/2:00 pm CT/1:00 pm MT/12:00 pm PT/9:00 am HT

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Panelists: 

  • Nazune Menka, Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Northwest Center for Indigenous Law, Seattle University School of Law
  • Monte Mills, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and the Director of the Native American Law Center (NALC), University of Washington School of Law
  • Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
  • Heather Whiteman Runs Him, Associate Clinical Professor; Director, Tribal Justice Clinic, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Sponsored by the AALS Sections on: Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research, Critical Theories, Leadership, New Law Professors, Pro Bono & Access to Justice, Professional Responsibility, and Women in Legal Education

Indigenous nations and their citizens have a unique relationship with the United States and its legal system. From having their rights adjudicated by the “Courts of the conqueror,” to the overarching plenary power exercised by the U.S. Congress, to the negotiation of treaties with a president often deemed the “great white father,” the American rule of law and role of lawyers in upholding it have significantly and disparately impacted Indigenous sovereignty and individual rights. A modern renaissance of that sovereignty and the expanding study and understanding of the role it has played in shaping the nation’s structures of power is now beginning to reshape how the law and lawyers should view Indigenous rights in relation to law, justice, and the legal profession. This panel centers the rights of Indigenous nations and their citizens to consider what the American rule of law has meant and how the assertion of Indigenous sovereignty is fundamentally changing those historical (mis-)conceptions.

What this panel might have looked like in 1977.

Oklahoma Sovereignty Symposium 2026 Call for Papers + Writing and Poster Competitions

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

The Sovereignty Symposium XXXVIII – 2026 will be held at the OKANA Resort in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 15-16, 2026. 

Stanford Law Review Symposium: Promises of Sovereignty

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Mantle
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Tribal Sovereignty, Justice Gorsuch, and the Letter of the Law by  Desmond Mantle  on  July 23, 2025 I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent!  —Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg Introduction This Comment seeks to defend Justice Neil Gorsuch’s approach to statutory interpretation, arguing against pragmatist efforts to reduce the Supreme Court’s reliance on textualism and against efforts by fellow self-proclaimed textualists…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Kinsbury
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty What We Talk About When We Talk About (Indian) Sovereignty: Montana and the Application of General Statutes to Tribes by  Annelisa Kingsbury Lee  on  July 23, 2025 Montana v. US is a case about tribal civil jurisdiction. Yet it has had a second life in a surprising context: federal statutes of general applicability that do not mention tribes. This Comment explores the circuit split on these silent statutes and shows that Montana is the doctrinal lynchpin for every court that has considered…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Cui
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Separation-of-Powers Formalism and Federal Indian Law: The Question of Executive Order Reservations by  Isaac Cui  on  July 23, 2025 Introduction The creation of Indian reservations largely coincided with and was facilitated by the development of presidential authority to withdraw public lands for Indian purposes. Of the roughly 42.8 million acres of total tribal trust lands in 1951, slightly over 23 million were set aside through executive order. That number far dwarfs any other method…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Schilfgaarde
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Tribal Revestiture by  Lauren van Schilfgaarde  on  July 23, 2025 I. Implicit Divestiture Presumes Cultural Incompatibility Tribes have a precarious political posture in relation to the United States. Tribes are distinctly sovereign and extra-constitutional, but are also without meaningful external infrastructure to define and protect their legal status in relation to the United States. That is, the U.S. recognizes Tribes as “domestic dependent nations,” but…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Riley
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Indigenous Rights to Culture: What’s Next? by  Angela R. Riley  on  July 23, 2025 Introduction For more than two centuries, the United States has maintained—in law and in practice—a colonial system designed to destroy Indigenous peoples’ culture. My work has explored this phenomenon from a property lens, explaining how attacks on Indigenous cultures traverse and encompass all categories of property, including real, tangible, and intangible. From a property perspective,…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Mills
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty The Supreme Court’s Old Habits in a New Era? Native Nations, Statehood, and an Indigenous-led Future for Natural Resources by  Monte Mills  on  July 23, 2025 Introduction After rising from the depths of eras in which the United States intended to eliminate Native Nations, tribal sovereignty remains ascendant. With respect to natural resources, the governance of Native Nations has expanded to more fully occupy the legal space reserved in treaties with the United States. Across the country, Native Nations have built…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Lewerenz
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Federal Indian Law in a Time of Judicial Self-Aggrandizement by  Dan Lewerenz  on  July 23, 2025 Introduction The Supreme Court is accumulating power. Call it “concentrating power in the court,” a “judicial power grab,” or (as a growing number of scholars are calling it) “judicial aggrandizement” or “judicial self-aggrandizement.” Each of these ideas describes a Supreme Court that is upsetting accepted notions of the separation of powers—accumulating power for itself, often…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Fletcher
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Against Judicial Generalists by  Matthew L.M. Fletcher  on  July 23, 2025 There is something irritatingly wrong with Indian law practice at the Supreme Court. Oral argument at the Supreme Court is a bitterly unpleasant affair for Indigenous people and tribal advocates for a lengthy variety of reasons. It is canonical that tribal advocates must attempt to avoid Supreme Court review; the strategic thinking is that the…Volume 77 (2024-2025)
Davis
Symposium – 2025 – Promises of Sovereignty Can the Roberts Court Find Federal Indian Law? by  Seth Davis  on  July 23, 2025 Introduction Imagine the lost world of “lawfinding.” In that world, there was a general common law for federal judges to find. And in that world, each statute had a “single, best meaning” for judges to unearth with the traditional tools of statutory interpretation. Of course, we are not going back to that world. Too much…Volume 77 (2024-2025)

UCLA Law Review Symposium Issue — Red Rising: The Shifting Legal Landscape of Tribal Sovereignty

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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