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Contemporary Issues in Indian Law Conference

Stanford Law School Ÿ February 7, 2014

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Schedule

Thursday, February 6, 2014     Stanford Law School, Room 185

7:30 PM – 6:30 PM     Crash Course on Indian Law with Karen Biestman

This session will provide students with an overview and background to Indian law that will be useful for the following day’s program.  All students welcome!

· Karen Biestman, Associate Dean & Director of the Stanford Native American Cultural Center, and Stanford Law School Lecturer in Law
Friday, February 7, 2014     Stanford Law School, Room 290

8:30 AM – 9: 15 AM     Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM    Modern Indian Law in the Context of Recent Supreme Court Cases

· Bethany Berger, Professor of Real Property Law at UConn School of Law

· Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law (my paper here)

· Kristen Carpenter, Associate Professor of Law & Co-Director, American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School

· Moderator: Deborah Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School

· Co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM     Tribal Jurisdictional Issues and VAWA

· Carole Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law

· Wenona Singel, Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law

· Wilson Pipestem, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Ietan Consulting

· Moderator: Maggie McKinley, Post-Doctoral Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

· Co-sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice and Women of Stanford Law
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