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Professor Melissa Tatum has been named Director of IPLP
posted Wed, 18 Apr 2012
Professor Melissa Tatum has been named Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She was previously the Associate Director of the program. She replaces Professor Robert A. Williams, who founded the Indian Law program 25 years ago and has served as its Director since 2005.
First Indian Law pioneers to Supreme Court and Deloria offers a fresh approach
posted Mon, 09 Apr 2012
You could hear the snap, crackle and pop of intellectual athletics as a different kind of Indian all-stars team, The First Thirteen, assembled at the University of New Mexico Law School in Albuquerque recently. These were the first Native American attorneys to argue Federal Indian law cases before the Supreme Court, from 1980 through 2001. Full article...
Professor Marren Sanders (IPLP LLM & SJD) is featured in Suffolk University Law School Alumni magazine
posted Mon, 23 Jan 2012
Prior to receiving her LLM & SJD via the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, Professor Sanders received hr JD from Suffolk University Law School. Here, Professor Sanders is featured in the Suffolk University Law School Alumni magazine.
Grant Christensen, IPLP Alumnus (LLM 2010), has an article in the American Indian Law Review
posted Mon, 26 Dec 2011
Grant Christensen, IPLP Alumnus (LLM 2010), has an article in the American Indian Law Review - CREATING BRIGHT-LINE RULES FOR TRIBAL COURT JURISDICTION OVER NON-INDIANS: THE CASE OF TRESPASS TO REAL PROPERTY"
Nicole Friederichs, IPLP Alumnus (LLM 2008), has an article in the American Indian Law Review
posted Mon, 26 Dec 2011
Nicole Friederichs, IPLP Alumnus (LLM 2008), has an article in the American Indian Law Review - "A REASON TO REVISIT MAINE'S INDIAN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACTS: THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES"
Professor Rob Williams Named "Hero on the Hill"
posted Wed, 21 Dec 2011
Rob Williams was listed among the "2011 Heroes of the Hill" by Indian Country Today Media Network. Below is a link to the story.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/21/heroes-on-the-hill-2011-68449
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S. James Anaya was recently named as a new Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Watch the film that was produced to celebrate S. James Anaya as a new Regents Professor and to highlight his work as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples.