Indian Tribes and Indigenous Peoples
On May 22, Professor Bethany Berger will be a featured speaker at the Wesleyan University Reunion Weekend. She will present a talk titled "Sovereignty and Identity of Indian Tribes and Indigenous Peoples."
Professor Berger is a judge with the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals, and past chair of the Indian Nations and Indigenous People’s Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She is an executive editor and co-author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the preeminent treatise in the field, and is a co-author of a casebook, American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (West 2008), with Robert Anderson, Philip Frickey, and Sarah Krakoff, and the author of a number of articles on federal Indian law and property. She served as the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in the 2008-2009 academic year.
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Professor Jessica Rubin will be teaching US law and legal writing for the Open Society Foundation at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Rubin teaches legal research and writing in the Lawyering Process program at the Law School.
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On June 18, Professor Sara Bronin will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association on "Legal Tools to Address Climate Change" at a panel discussion entitle "Following the Path of the Storm: Legal and Legislative Challenges in Addressing Rising Sea Levels on the Connecticut Coastline."
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On June 18, Professor Mark W. Janis will lecture on "Freedom of Religion and European Human Rights Law" at the University of Oxford, England.
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On June 17, Professor Alexandra Lahav will speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) where she will comment on the proposed changes to the Federal rules of civil procedure.
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On June 17, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the twenty-third annual Summer Tax Institute at University of California - Davis.
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Jennifer Brooks-Crozier '12 is the author of "Put Up Your Dukes: The Fight Over Commonality in the Era of Wal-Mart v. Dukes" (19 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 711 (2013)).
