Michigan Indian Law Day — Ann Arbor — April 10
Symposia
FBA Indian Law Conference Pics
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
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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Indian Law Conference at Harvard Law School on April 6, 2009
Tribal Justice: The Supreme Court and the Future of Federal Indian Law (Tribal Justice Conference Poster)
Monday, April 6, 2009
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
The Supreme Court’s treatment of American Indians has long been viewed as uniquely reflective of the rise and fall of our shared democratic faith. A flurry of recent cases has signaled to Native nations a disturbing paradigm shift – that of a judiciary now openly hostile to tribal interests. This timely conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners for a frank discussion regarding the impact the Roberts Court is having on Indian Country.
Agenda below the fold….
CU Conference: Native Americans, Race, and the Constitution
Colorado Law is hosting a CLE on Indian law in conjunction with the NNALSA Moot Court competition.
Here is the agenda.
I’ll be presenting on the ethics of pushing the envelope in Indian law cases (paper here).
Michigan Indian Education Critical Issues Conference — Agenda and Registration
Here is the registration information and conference agenda for the 2009 MIEC Conference at the Soaring Eagle Inn and Conference Center, March 12-14.
Jeff Davis (Turtle Mountain), 14-year veteran of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker.
I’ll be presenting a history of the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver at 8:30 on Friday. And I’ll be talking about ways to use my book (“American Indian Education”) in the classroom at 1 on Friday.
FBA Indian Law Conference Agenda Available
Here.
American Indian Law Review to Publish Papers from MSU Conference “American Indian Law and Literature”
Here is a listing of the articles to be published in volume 33, no. 1:
- From Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Larry Catá Backer
- “Channeling Thought”: The Legacy of Legal Fictions from 1823 – Jen Camden & Kathryn E. Fort
- Interpretive Sovereignty: A Research Agenda – Kristen A. Carpenter
- Crossover – Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
- Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law and Economics – Matthew L.M. Fletcher
- Genealogy as Continuity: Explaining the Growing Tribal Preference for Descent Rules in Membership Governance in the United States – Kirsty Gover
- Writing the Living Law: American Indian Literature as Legal Narrative – Amelia V. Katanski
- How Lawyers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas: An Essay on James Welch’s The Indian Lawyer – Renee Newman Knake
- Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy – Margaret Montoya & Christine Zuni Cruz, interviewed by Gene Grant
- At the Edge of Indian Law Scholarship: A Poem Instead of a Footnote – Frank Pommersheim
Lewis and Clark Law Review Symposium on Tribal Economic Development Published
The articles are available here. Authors include Gavin Clarkson, David Haddock, Richard Monette, Alex Skibine, Judy Royster, Bob Miller, and me.
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