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This session will provide students with an overview and background to Indian law that will be useful for the following day’s program. All students welcome!

· Karen Biestman, Associate Dean & Director of the Stanford Native American Cultural Center, and Stanford Law School Lecturer in Law
Friday, February 7, 2014 Stanford Law School, Room 290

8:30 AM – 9: 15 AM Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM Modern Indian Law in the Context of Recent Supreme Court Cases

· Bethany Berger, Professor of Real Property Law at UConn School of Law

· Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law (my paper here)

· Kristen Carpenter, Associate Professor of Law & Co-Director, American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School

· Moderator: Deborah Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School

· Co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Tribal Jurisdictional Issues and VAWA

· Carole Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law

· Wenona Singel, Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law

· Wilson Pipestem, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Ietan Consulting

· Moderator: Maggie McKinley, Post-Doctoral Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

· Co-sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice and Women of Stanford Law
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2014 FBA Indian Law Conference Agenda

February 4, 2014February 4, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here:

Thursday, April 10, 2014 – Morning Session

PANEL 1. BABY VERONICA – TEXTING PATERNITY AWAY AND BRINGING ICWA INTO 21ST CENTURY

Natalie Landreth, Senior Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (Moderator)

Anita Fineday, Director, Casey Family Program, Indian Child Welfare Program
Heather Kendall-Miller, Senior Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
Sara Hill, Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Cherokee Nation
Jack Trope, Executive Director, Association on American Indian Affairs

PANEL 2. ELECTIONS 2014 – SHELBY COUNTY & THE IMPACT ON INDIAN COUNTRY
Natalie Landreth, Senior Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (Moderator)

Martin W. Aguilar, NAEIP Liaison, Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State
Laughlin McDonald, Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Voting Rights Project
Nina Perales, Senior Attorney, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund
James T. Tucker, Attorney, Wilson Elser

LUNCH PROGRAM:
REPORT FROM THE INDIAN LAW AND ORDER COMMISSION – “A ROADMAP FOR MAKING NATIVE AMERICA SAFER”

Natalie Landreth, Senior Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (Moderator)

Troy Eid, Partner, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Carole Goldberg, Professor, University of California Los Angeles School of Law

Thursday, April 10, 2014 – Afternoon Session

PANEL 3. SOVEREIGN ENERGY: POWERING THE DIGITAL AGE

Steven Paul McSloy, Partner, Dentons (Moderator)

Michon Ebon, Cultural Resource Coordinator, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (Invited)
Carla Fredericks, Clinical Faculty, University of Colorado School of Law
Pilar Thomas, Deputy Director, Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Indian Energy
Lynn Slade, Partner, Modrall Sperling

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 1
TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP IN A NEW MILLENNIUM: INCLUDING FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THE TRIBAL NETWORK

Angelique EagleWoman, Associate Professor, University of Idaho College of Law (Moderator)

Colin Cloud Hampson, Attorney, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP
Danna Jackson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, District of Montana
Hon. Bruce Plackowski, Chief Judge, Nez Perce Tribe
Christine Zuni Cruz, Associate Dean, University of New Mexico School of Law

PANEL 4. NEGOTIATING SOVEREIGNTY &THE OUTER LIMITS OF COMPACTS POST-RINCON

Steven Paul McSloy, Partner, Dentons (Moderator)

Little Fawn Boland, Partner, Ceiba Legal, LLP
Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative, Oneida Indian Nation of New York
Jeff Nelson, Counsel, Kanji & Katzen P.L.L.C.
George Skibine, Counsel, Dentons

Friday, April 11, 2014 – Morning Session

PANEL 5: RESERVATION INFRASTRUCTURE AS AN ECONOMIC DRIVER

Patrice Kunesh, Deputy Under Secretary, Rural Development, US
Department of Agriculture (Moderator)

Catherine Munson, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend
Bryan Newland, Counsel, Fletcher Law PLLC
Hon. Christine Williams, Chief Judge, Northern California Intertribal Court System
Elsie Meeks, State Director, Rural Development State Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture

PANEL 6: TRIBAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Patrice Kunesh, Deputy Under Secretary, Rural Development, US Department of Agriculture (Moderator)

Elizabeth Conway, Associate General Counsel, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe
Pratik Shah, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
William Wood, Associate Professor, Southwestern Law School
Jennifer Weddle, Partner, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Friday, April 11, 2014 – Afternoon Session

PANEL 7: INTERNATIONAL LAW: INDIGENOUS ISSUES ON AN INTERNATIONAL GRID

Angelique EagleWoman, Associate Professor, University of Idaho College of Law (Moderator)

Robert Tim Coulter, Director, Indian Law Resource Center
Tracey LeBeau, Director, Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, U.S. Department of Energy
G. William Rice, Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law
Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law, Arizona State University College of Law

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 2
INTANGIBLE SOVEREIGNTY: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN INDIAN LAW

Steven Paul McSloy, Partner, Dentons (Moderator)

Suzan Shown Harjo, Poet and Policy Advocate
Marshall McKay, Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
Trevor Reed, J.D. Candidate, Columbia Law School / Ford Foundation & Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Paula Yost, Partner, Dentons

PANEL 8: THE ETHICS OF INTERFACING TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY

Angelique EagleWoman, Associate Professor, University of Idaho College of Law (Moderator)

Hon. Greg Bigler, Tribal Attorney and Tribal Court Judge
Cheryl Demmert Fairbanks, Counsel, Cuddy McCarthy, LLP
Matthew Fletcher, Professor, Michigan State University College of Law
Fawn Sharp, President, Quinault Nation

Afternoon Panels at UCLA ILOC Report Symposium

January 24, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Judge Theresa Pouley, Ted Quasala, Dorothy Alther

Judge Pouley, Carole Goldberg, Addie Rolnick, and Affie Ellis

UCLA Indian Law and Order Commission Report Symposium

January 24, 2014January 24, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Angela Riley introduction

Troy Eid introduction

Bob Clinton and Tom Gede

First panel — Clinton, Gede, Affie Ellis, and Eid

Second panel — Samuel Ennis, David Voluck, Gede, Bob Anderson, Eid, and Carole Goldberg

Arctic Law Symposium Articles Available Online

January 14, 2014Victoria Sweet

Articles from the 2013 Arctic Law Symposium held at Michigan State University College of Law have been published in the Michigan State International Law Review. Included in this volume are several articles specifically addressing how Indigenous peoples may be impacted by the current changes and developments in the region including:

Closing the Citizenship Gap in Canada’s North: Indigenous Rights, Arctic Sovereignty, and Devolution in Nunavut
Tony Penikett and Adam Goldenberg

Risk, Rights and Responsibility: Navigating Corporate Responsibility and Indigenous Rights in Greenlandic Extractive Industry Development
Rutherford Hubbard

Legal Questions Regarding Mineral Exploration and Exploitation in Indigenous Areas
Susann Funderud Skogvang

Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources from a Human Rights Perspective: Natural Resources Exploitation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Arctic
Dorothée Cambou and Stefaan Smis

Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic: The Changing Horizon of International Law
Sumudu Atapattu

Link to the the full issue here.

Link to previous coverage here.