Professor Emeritus Dale Beck Furnish and ILP alumnus Shawn Attakai (’00) participated in a panel at the Navajo Nation’s Annual Judicial Conference, “Navajo Justice 1959 – 2009 — 50 Years of Reflection,” on June 17 at the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.

Furnish, along with Justice Emeritus and Adjunct Assistant Professor Raymond Austin of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, and Shawn Attakai, a Kayenta Judicial District staff attorney, were on the panel, Fundamental Law / Navajo Statutory Law / Federal Requirement. Two of Furnish’s articles on Navajo Nation law were used as the basis for the three-hour discussion.