MSU ILPC Spring 2011 Speaker Series

This spring, we’re hosting events for new books on radical thinkers in American law and policy (including Vine Deloria), Loving v. Virginia, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Tentative speakers here:

January 24th

Author: Michael Lawrence (MSU)

Radicals in their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal justice in America

Commentators:

Alfred Brophy (North Carolina)

John Petoskey (Fredericks Peebles)

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Minnesota-Duluth)

February 22nd

Kevin Maillard (Syracuse) and Rose Villazor  (Hofstra)

Co-Editors, Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World

Commentators and Co-Author:

Carla Pratt (Penn State)

Addie Rolnick  (UCLA)

March 24

Author: Barbara Ann Atwood (James E. Rogers College of Law)

Children, Tribes and States

Commentators:

Hon. Michael Petoskey (Chief Judge, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and others)

Hon. Tim Connors (22nd Circuit Court, Washtenaw County)

MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center Alumni Reunion Event — April 21 @ 3PM

Indigenous Law and Policy Center Spring 2008 Newsletter!!!!

Thanks to Emily Petoskey for all the hard work in putting this together.

ilpc-newsletter-spring08

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell’s Book on Felix Cohen Wins National Award

From Legal History Blog:

The Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American law and society will be awarded to Dalia Tsuk Mitchell for Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism (Cornell Univ. Press, 2006) at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in January.

We will be hosting Prof. Tsuk Mitchell at the Center this spring to discuss her book, along with Sam Hirsch of Jenner & Block, Riyaz Kanji of Kanji & Katzen, Christian McMillen of the University of Virginia, and Sam Deloria of the American Indian Graduate Center. That day’s panels will be discussing the legacy of Felix S. Cohen.