Featuring keynotes Lawrence S. Roberts (General Counsel, NIGC) and Pricilla A. Wilfahrt (Field Solicitor, DOI).
Here is the brochure: MAIBACLE
Symposia
Wisc. Journal of Gender, Law, and Society Indian/Immigration Law Symposium Published
The articles are here. The journal’s home page is here.
And here are a few selected articles:
Shared Experiences, Divergent Outcomes: American Indian and Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence by Jacqueline P. Hand and David C. Koelsch
No Exceptions Made: Sexual Assault Against Native American Women and the Denial of Reproductive Healthcare Services by Rebecca A. Hart
The agenda for the live symposium is posted here.
TJSL: 10th Anniversary Women and the Law Conference — Gender Justice and Indian Sovereignty
Friday, February 18, 2011,
“Gender Justice and Indian Sovereignty: Native American Women and the Law.”
This one-day conference will be held at TJSL’s brand-new state-of-the-art building in downtown San Diego (opening January 2011, our first major event there), and will feature the annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture (founded in 2003 with generous support from Justice Ginsburg), by our Keynote Speaker, Interim Associate Dean Stacy Leeds, University of Kansas School of Law, former Justice of the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court and currently chief judge of three Indian Nation tribal courts. Her Lecture will be titled: “Resistance, Resilience, and Reconciliation: Reflections on Native American Women and the Law.”
Information and a registration link may be found at http://www.tjsl.edu/wlc2011 (a very attractive conference rate, $138 plus tax per night, is available for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, Feb 17-19, for a limited block of rooms at The Handlery, a San Diego resort hotel a couple of miles from the school; suitable closer hotels were unfortunately booked up by conventions; we plan to provide a free shuttle bus to/from The Handlery and the law school).
Leeds will join a remarkable national assemblage of about two dozen speakers, including numerous American Indian women leaders from across California and the United States, and one Canadian First Nations attorney, along with two Native men and two non-Native women, all deeply experienced leaders of Indian Nation Tribal courts, governments, business, law practice, and academia.
In keeping with TJSL’s Women and the Law Project traditions, the conference seeks to combine nationally known speakers with strong local community involvement, reflected this year in several speakers who are leaders in San Diego County and Southern California Indian Nation communities.
The speakers will include 11 serving judges on the courts of more than a dozen Indian Nations, two Native women who are current or former state court judges, the first and only Indian woman to serve as U.S. Attorney, and most of the dozen or so Native women on the faculties of American law schools. They will address a wide range of issues affecting American Indian women, including gender-related violence and Indian Country law enforcement, development of Tribal courts, governments, and businesses, and the intersection of Native identity, civil rights, sexism, and racism.
It has been very difficult to choose from among the large array of extremely qualified potential speakers, while staying within the logistical limits of a one-day conference; a few additional invited speakers are still pending confirmation. We hope as many of you as possible may be able to attend.
The full list of speakers confirmed so far is below. More details with a conference schedule and full array of planned panels will be circulated later.
Best regards,Bryan H. WildenthalProfessor of LawThomas Jefferson School of LawFaculty Organizer for WLC 2011
LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Kansas Law School Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
15th annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
Friday, Feb. 4, 2011
9 am-4:30 pm
Burge Union, University of Kansas
We invite you to join us for the 15th annual Tribal Law & Government Conference at the University of Kansas School of Law. The conference devotes significant scholarly attention to the study of organic tribal law, modern tribal governments and the evolution of tribal common law, highlighting how the work of scholars and tribal jurists addressing the emerging and historical problems of indigenous law and governance is critical to strengthening tribal sovereignty.
Free CLE credit for Kansas and Missouri will be offered.
Speakers include:
Colorado Law Review Symposium: The Next Great Generation of Indian Law Judges
The Colorado Law Review has published a symposium issue on “The Next Great Generation of Indian Law Judges.” Here is the line-up:
Contents
Keynote Address at the University of Colorado
Law Review Symposium: “The Next Great Generation
of American Indian Law Judges”
Kevin K. Washburn
Articles
Resisting Federal Courts on Tribal Jurisdiction
Matthew L.M. Fletcher
In Theory, In Practice: Judging State Jurisdiction
in Indian Country
Carole Goldberg
Separate But Unequal: The Federal Criminal
Justice System in Indian Country
Troy A. Eid
Carrie Covington Doyle
Finding the Indian Child Welfare Act in
Unexpected Places: Applicability in
Private Non-Parent Custody Actions
Jill E. Tompkins
Bench Book
Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers:
A Practical Guide for Judges
Sarah Krakoff
CFP: 5th Annual UCLA Critical Race Studies Symposium
SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2011
The Fifth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium will explore the relationship between race and sovereignty. Sovereignty, like race, has been invoked, understood, and deployed in contradictory ways. Historically, sovereignty has been an important vehicle through which hegemonic power has been enforced, for example, by articulating citizenship as a racial project rooted in the power to exclude. Sovereignty has also been an important tool of anti-colonial resistance crucial to liberatory struggles of people of color in the U.S. and worldwide. Race shares this complex dimension, serving as both a technology of oppression and a vehicle for resistance to that oppression.
Despite these parallels, race and sovereignty have, for the most part, been engaged as separate and mutually exclusive projects: sovereignty has primarily been linked to the struggles of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples, while the struggles of other people of color have largely been cast through a standard anti-racist narrative of citizenship and inclusion. The symposium proposes, instead, to examine how race and sovereignty intersect and are mutually constitutive, even as important distinctions remain. We propose to examine how race enters into concepts of sovereignty and how sovereignty enters into concepts of race.
Information regarding call for proposals, the program schedule and registration information can be found here:http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=3542
If you have any questions, please email crs@law.ucla.edu
CFP: American University Law School Symposium on “Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions”
Apr 1: IP/Gender: Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions
PDF – Call for Papers – WCL – Gender and Traditional Cultural Expression
Click Here – Call for Papers Submission Form
IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections
Eighth Annual Symposium, April 1, 2011
Special Theme:
Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions
FBA Indian Law Conference SAVE THE DATE Postcard
Here: indianlaw-PC11
36th Annual Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference
Best Practices & Continuing Challenges in Federal Indian Law
American Indian nations have long been innovators in tribal governance, economic empowerment, and cultural revitalization. Accordingly, this year’s conference takes a deliberate look at some of the “best practices” in federal Indian law as a means of approaching our most intractable problems. Panel discussions will cover topics including Indian finance, criminal justice, civil jurisdiction, land re-acquisition, gaming, taxation, and the environment— looking, in each instance, at a continuing Indian law challenge and the ways that tribes, agencies, legislators, courts, and others are responding to it. Other sessions will address domestic and international advocacy, along with ethical considerations in Indian law. Break-out sessions will provide “nuts and bolts” information and strategies on water rights, tribal code development (on probate, family, and child welfare issues), religious freedoms, and tribal in-house attorney issues. A special program will honor the Native American Rights Fund’s 40th Anniversary and its leadership role in best Indian law practices. We hope you will join us for a forward-thinking, practically-oriented, and inspiring conference!
Seattle U. Conference Materials — “Perspectives on Tribal Land Acquisitions in 2010: A Call to Action”
Eric Eberhard has generously provided the entire conference transcript and materials packet for the Seattle University Center for Indian Law and Policy conference, “Perspectives on Tribal Land Acquisitions in 2010: A Call to Action.”
These materials easily are the finest set of documents relating to the last 30 years of the law and politics of Interior trust acquisitions.
It’s an 862-page document, about 100 MB, but worth the time to download [if you want the CD, please contact Eric or others in the program]
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).
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