Gilcrease Museum Conference Announcement: “Emissaries of Peace”

Here is the website and here is the postcard (Emissaries of Peace Symposium Invite2).

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tom Gilcrease, Jr. Auditorium

Gilcrease Museum

1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, Oklahoma

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2009 Sovereignty Symposium Agenda

Link to Sovereignty Symposium website: http://www.oscn.net/sovereignty/default.aspx

2009 Agenda(PDF)

Drake Law Review Gaming Law Symposium

THE DRAKE LAW REVIEW AND THE INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF GAMING LAW:  GAMING LAW SYMPOSIUMSadly, full text is not available for these articles on the Drake Law Review site….

Preface
Keith C. Miller

The Three Billion Dollar Question
Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier & Anne W. Bishop

Gambling with Bankruptcy:  Navigating a Casino through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Proceedings
Robert W. Stocker II & Peter J. Kulick

Alex Rodriguez, a Monkey, and the Game of Scrabble:  The Hazards of Using Illogic to Define Legality of Games of Mixed Skill and Chance
Anthony N. Cabot, Glenn J. Light & Karl F. Rutledge

The Hand that’s Been Dealt:  The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act at 20
Steven Andrew Light & Kathryn R.L. Rand

The “Business of Betting or Wagering”:  A Unifying View of Federal Gaming Law
Ben J. Hayes & Matthew J. Conigliaro

Cards and Dice in Smoky Rooms:  Tobacco Bans and Modern Casinos
Ronald J. Rychlak

Call for Papers: Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure

CALL FOR PAPERS

Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure

This call for papers seeks submissions for the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section’s 2010 publication of selected papers.  The Section will meet during the American Association of Law School’s Annual Conference on January 8th, 2010.  The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Meeting will focus on “Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure.”  The Washburn Law Journal will be publishing the papers on this topic accepted for publication.

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3rd Annual UNM Indian Law Clinics Conference Announcement

Indian Law Clinics and Externship Programs

Third Annual Symposium

Interconnections of Law and Poverty and Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Other Communities of Color

Sunday, June 7 to Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Isleta Resort & Casino

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Careers in Indian Law Panel — MSU Law College — April 16

Please join us for our annual Indian law career panel. Graduates of the MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center are now working in many disparate jobs in Indian Country. This year’s panel is Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 11AM in the Castle Board Room. Lunch is provided, so get there early!

Careers in Indian Law

Matt Lesky, ‘05, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

Bryan Newland, ‘07, Dykema Gossett

Nova Wilson, ‘08, National Congress of American Indians

Moderator: Kate Fort, ‘05, MSU College of Law Indigenous Law and Policy Center

Michigan Indian Law Day — Ann Arbor — April 10

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FBA Indian Law Conference Pics

Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke
Matthew Fletcher
Matthew Fletcher
Pilar Thomas and Juanita Sales Lee
Pilar Thomas and Juanita Sales Lee

FBA Indian Law Conference Day 1

Here is the agenda for the first day of the 34th annual FBA Indian Law Conference (FBA website):

8:30–10:00 a.m.  Plenary 1: What’s Red Is Green

Moderator: Pilar Thomas, Of Counsel, Lewis and Roca LLC
Panelists:
Tracey LeBeau, Principal, Red Mountain Tribal Energy
Winona LaDuke, Executive Director, Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project

9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. NNALSA Annual Meeting

10:15–11:45 a.m. Plenary 2: RFRA: Neither Sword Nor Shield for Sacred Space
Moderator: Kristen A. Carpenter, Associate Professor, Univ. of Denver Sturm College of Law
Panelists: Tom Berg, St. Ives Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas Law School
Zackaree Kelin, Managing Director, DNA Peoples Legal Services
Patricia Millett, Partner, Akin Gump

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U-M Indian Law Day — April 10, 2009 — ICWA

The University of Michigan NALSA will host its annual Indian Law Day on April 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM. The subject is the Indian Child Welfare Act. Here is the agenda:

Introduction to ICWA basics:  Colette Routel

Introduction to current ICWA issues (National Perspective).  Keynote  speaker, Mark Tilden — Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (author of ICWA Resource Guide)

Tribal Panel (addressing current ICWA issues from the perspective of  Indian tribes).  Speakers:  Matthew Fletcher, GTB member and Professor at Michigan State Law School; Allie Maldonado, LTBB member and in-house counsel for her tribe.

State Panel (addressing current ICWA issues from the perspective of  the state courts).  Speakers:  Judge Laura Baird, Chief Judge, Ingham County; Judge Elizabeth Gleicher, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals.
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