Fall 2008 Indigenous Law Conference

A picture of our postcard, with artwork by Sam English, is on our MSU website. Registration for this event is now available online here.

5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference

October 10-11, 2008 @ MSU Law College

Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act –

History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges

The Indian Civil Rights Act will be 40 years old in 2008 – and Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez will be 30. We have decided to dedicate our 5th annual conference to the Act and to Martinez. Confirmed speakers already include Kristen Carpenter, Trent Crable, Marty Curry, Cecelia Fire Thunder, Gordon Henry, Sonia Katyal, Elizabeth Kronk, Stacy Leeds, Dan Lewerenz, Catharine MacKinnon, Rebecca Miles, Eva Petoskey, Frank Pommersheim, Angela Riley, Mark Rosen, Wenona Singel, Paul Spruhan, Melissa Tatum, Gerald Torres, Ann Tweedy, Gloria Valencia-Weber, Rose Cuison Villazor, and others.

We are pleased to announce that Lawrence Baca will be the keynote speaker for this conference.

Our vision for this year’s conference is to solicit papers that cover a specific provision in the Indian Civil Rights Act, e.g., free speech, freedom of religion, due process, equal protection, and so on. We want academics, practitioners, tribal judges, tribal leaders – anyone that has something important to say about this very important statute. We will collect the best of these papers into an edited collection for publication with a major university press, co-edited by Kristen A. Carpenter, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, and Angela R. Riley.

Here is the (very) tentative agenda.

Friday, October 10, 2008

9 AM — Keynote

Lawrence Baca

10 AM to Noon — Indigenous Women Assess the Indian Civil Rights Act

Cecilia Fire Thunder

Rebecca Miles

Eva Petoskey

Rina Swentzell – unconfirmed

LUNCH

1 PM to 2 PM — Respondents to the Panel of Indigenous Women

Gloria Valencia-Weber

Catharine MacKinnon

Frank Pommersheim

2 PM to 3 PM — Sex and Gender

Angela Riley

Ann Tweedy

3:30 PM to 5 PM — Free Speech and Religion

Marty Curry

Dan Lewerenz

Kristen Carpenter

DINNER

Literary Event

Frank Pommersheim

Gordon Henry

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Saturday, October 11, 2008

9 AM to 10:30 AM — Tribal Courts & Due Process

Stacy Leeds

Wenona Singel

Paul Spruhan

10:45 AM to 11:45 AM — Property and Community

Melissa Tatum

Rose Cuison Villazor

LUNCH

1 PM to 2:30 PM — Race, Representation, and Theory

Mark Rosen

Sonia Katyal

Gerald Torres

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM — Criminal Procedure

Trent Crable

Elizabeth Kronk