| Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy LLM ProgramThe University of Arizona is widely recognized as one of the world's leading academic centers of learning for the study of indigenous peoples' cultures, histories, languages, laws, and human rights. The Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona has played a major part in developing this leadership role over the past two decades. By using the strengths of the University of Arizona in the field of indigenous peoples studies, and working closely with indigenous peoples, their leaders and their communities, the Rogers College of Law has developed a nationally acclaimed interdisciplinary LLM Program in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy, designed to prepare lawyers to meet the unique and difficult set of challenges and problems confronting international and domestic law reform and policymaking in the field of indigenous peoples' rights in the 21st Century.
Program Objectives The LLM Program permits the College of Law to strengthen its already impressive list of course offerings in the field of Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy and related core disciplines. The academic course portion of the LLM curriculum will consist of at least 24 semester hours of study. It is intended to be flexible in order to match the College of Law's diverse academic strengths with the particular interests of LLM students (both U.S. and foreign). The basic curriculum design for LLM students will include:
Applicants admitted to the program will have demonstrated throughout their careers a high degree of academic achievement, intelligence, self-motivation, and ability to perform with distinction in a rigorous graduate level advanced degree program. Because of the quality and unique nature of the IPLP LLM Program, the number of highly qualified applicants exceeds the number that the College of Law is able to accept. Recruitment is conducted through law faculties in foreign countries, referrals from the U.S. and foreign government officials, and direct application. We also receive considerable interest from JD graduates of law schools in the United States. Overall, we accept a select number of the best-qualified candidates based on academic record and professional achievement. Mission of the Program: Partnerships and Linkages for a Multicultural WorldThe IPLP LLM Program maintains a number of unique partnerships and close programmatic linkages with other legal, policymaking, academic, and indigenous institutions that will significantly enrich and enhance the graduate legal educational experience of its LLM students. One of the most important set of linkages and partnerships is with the Native Nations Institute for Leadership Management and Policy - established by the Morris K. Udall Foundation and the University of Arizona in conjunction with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and in participation with the College of Law. The IPLP LLM program and its students work together with the Native Nations Institute to develop internships, research projects, workshops, and professional training seminars that will foster globally unique exchanges among tribal leaders, scholars, lawyers, judges, and other policymakers. The IPLP LLM Program has developed other important and innovative programmatic linkages:
The special relationships and joint projects undertaken with these partners allow the College of Law's LLM students to enjoy and reap the many benefits of learning in a graduate legal educational program in teaching, research and service in the field of Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy at one of the world's leading academic institutions for indigenous peoples' studies. Students enrolled in the IPLP LLM Program participate in the Indigenous Law Clinic, a specially designed graduate LLM clinical placement program. The Clinic provides faculty-supervised placements for LLM students in tribal courts and tribal governments and with indigenous human rights organizations. LLM clinical students will work on major indigenous human rights cases before bodies like the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. They do applied research on projects undertaken by College of Law faculty members at the request of indigenous communities and organizations. They help represent Clinic clients throughout the United Nations human rights system. In addition, they can conduct faculty-supervised legal and policy research on major issues in the field of Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy for LLM Program-sponsored scholarly publications and community and professional legal education seminars, conferences, and workshops. For more information please visit the IPLP website at http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/iplp/ |
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