Promoting Excellence in Diversity

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Indian Legal Program

On Feb. 15, Professor Patty Ferguson-Bohnee was honored as one of five recipients of the American Bar Association’s 2020 Spirit of Excellence award in Austin, Texas. This title is awarded annually to legal professionals that demonstrate excellence and commitment to diversity in law. We are so proud that she is a part of our program, and we are grateful to the ILP alumni and friends who came to support her achievement. Congratulations!

“I realize that the opportunities I’ve had resulted from the work and sacrifice of a lot of people who fought for those opportunities. That’s why I spend a lot of time giving back to my tribe and serving my tribe in a pro bono capacity. I think it’s awesome because I feel that when I do things, I’m not just representing myself, but I am also representing my family, my tribe and where I come from.”

Read more here or here.

Faculty Update – Media

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Indian Legal Program

Professor Patty Ferguson-Bohnee and her work, The History of Indian Voting Rights in Arizona: Overcoming Decades of Voter Suppression, were cited in a recent case presented to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

See the case here.

Faculty Update – Media

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Indian Legal Program

Professor Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes was interviewed by The Show on KJZZ about Diné College on the Navajo Nation potentially opening a law school. Listen to the episode here.

Faculty Update – Upcoming Event

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Indian Legal Program

Professor Robert Miller will be a featured speaker at the All Roads Lead to Chaco Canyon conference in Louisiana. The conference will be hosted on Coushatta land in Kinder, Louisiana, March 11-13. We have a conference website which has the agenda and registration. Right now, early bird registration is going on and we do offer student rates.

Find out more information here.

Fun Facts – Professor Publications

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Indian Legal Program

Getting a piece published can seem like a huge task, especially when you’re a student. Two of our excellent faculty members share their experience with publishing works and offer advice and opinions for those considering writing.

Professor Miller’s new book!

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Indian Legal Program

One for the books! New book on tribal economic development that offers accounts and perspectives on entrepreneurship in Indian Country co-edited and co-authored by Professor Robert J. Miller.

For more information, click here.

Fun Facts – Faculty Law School Experience Pt. 2: Meet Our New Professors!

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Indian Legal Program

Have you heard the news? Our #ILPfamily is growing! We’ve recently added three new members to our team. We asked Professor Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, Professor Lawrence Roberts and Distinguished Visiting Indian Law Professor Stacy Leeds about their experience as law students and how they feel starting out at a new school. Here is their full responses to our questions.

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October 2019 Faculty Updates

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Indian Legal Program

Our faculty has been involved in all sorts of exciting projects and actions! In a new style, here is a synopsis of our faculty’s recent activities.

Professor Robert Miller presented on a panel at Missouri
History Center on Sept. 24 in St.
Louis at the Lewis & Clark National Trail Heritage Foundation’s 50th Annual
meeting about Indian nations, the Doctrine of Discovery and Lewis & Clark
Miller spoke on Sept. 22 at the 50th Annual Lewis
and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation meeting in St. Louis at the Missouri
History Museum. He was on a panel entitled “Lewis and Clark through Indian
eyes.” He presented the subject “Lewis and Clark: Agents of American
Empire.”
On Oct. 3, Miller gave a lunch time presentation
on tribal courts to the Lewis & Clark Law School NALSA and Students for
Eliminating Environmental Discrimination.
On Oct. 3, Miller emceed at the Oregon Native
American Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.
Miller was announced as the recipient of the Pedrick
Scholarship on Oct. 10 as one of the
notable faculty honorees that bring extensive experience and knowledge to ASU
Law. Congratulations! Read the full article here.
Miller continues to work diligently on his law
review articles on Nazis and American Indian Law, tribal courts and General Ely
Parker [Seneca], despite being on sabbatical. Always working hard!

On
Sept. 24, Professor Patty
Ferguson-Bohnee was on a panel at the Climate Defenders: Indigenous Climate
Leadership in North America held in New York City. She spoke with other
indigenous climate activists about the climate issues at hand and potential
solutions that could address these problems. Watch the recorded livestream here.
On
Sept. 24, Ferguson-Bohnee appeared in KJZZ’s broadcast “Native American Voters
in Arizona Prep for 2020” to talk about common issues native voters face and
the importance of taking voter action. Read the article and listen to the
broadcast here.

Ferguson-Bohnee and Torey Dolan (’19) attended the First Nations Voting Rights Conference—Planting for the Future on Sept. 25-27 organized by the Rural Utah Project and held at the University of Utah College of Law. Ferguson-Bohnee moderated panels on the Voting Rights Act and You and Voter Protection. She also participated on a panel focused on Early Voting, Satellite Elections Office and Mail-In Ballots. The goal of the conference was to discuss strategies for equal representation, preparation for the 2020 Census, redistricting and rural addressing projects to ensure that every Native Vote is counted.
On Oct. 1, Ferguson-Bohnee participated in the subcommittee discussion Voting Rights and Elections Administration in Arizona. Watch the recorded livestream here. The second panel starts around 1:09:00.
On Sept. 13, Professor Trevor Reed gave the lunch lecture, Sonic Sovereignty: Performing Hopi Authority at Öngtupqa (Grand Canyon), to ASU School of Music faculty and students.
On Sept. 20, Reed presented Copyright and Our Ancestors’ Voices at Council for Museum Anthropology Biennial Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
On Oct. 2, Reed presented Listening to Our Modern Lives at Music, Modernity and Indigenous Peoples symposium at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
On Oct. 4, Reed presented Cultural Appropriation and Fair Use: Why the Forgotten Factor Matters at the Marquette Law School Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Works in Progress Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Oct. 14, Professor Lawrence Roberts participated on the panel “2019 Tribal Gaming in the Congress and Courts / 2020 Outlook at the Global Gaming Expo” in Las Vegas.
From Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, Professor Stacy Leeds presented Indigenous Land Tenure Systems in the United States and the Cherokee Legacy of Allotment: Highlighting UNDRIP Conformity Challenges as part of the United Nations Seminar of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Right to Land for Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Leeds was also newly appointed to the American Bar Association Advisory Committee for the Commission on Youth at Risk for the 2019-2020 committee.

Prof. Miller in Turtle Talk’s Most Downloaded Indian Law Papers (2018-2019 Academic Year)

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Indian Legal Program

Professor Robert J. Miller is listed on Turtle Talk’s Most Downloaded Indian Law Papers for 2018-2019 Academic Year twice! ILP is proud of his success!

“Who Owns Our Ancestors’ Voices? Tribal Claims to Pre-1972 Sound Recording” by Prof. Reed

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Indian Legal Program

Professor Trevor Reed just finished his first year teaching at ASU Law and is a fantastic addition to our team. You can read Professor Trevor Reed’s article “Who Owns Our Ancestors’ Voices? Tribal Claims to Pre-1972 Sound Recordings.”