Our mini-symposium on “Felix Cohen’s Indian Law Legacy” will be held next Friday, March 28, 2008, starting at 11AM in the Castle Boardroom at the law college. Our speakers include Sam Deloria, Christian McMillen, Riyaz Kanji, Sam Hirsch, and Bethany Berger.

We will be celebrating the recent publication of three books: (1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law; (2) Christian McMillen’s “Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory“; and (3) Dalia Tsuk Mitchell‘s “Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism.” Unfortunately, Prof. Tsuk Mitchell can’t make the conference.

A fourth book, edited by David E. Wilkins, “On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions,” was recently published by the University of Oklahoma Press — a little too late for our planning.

This panel is funded in part by the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.