Ferguson-Bohnee represents ASU at education conference

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Professors Art Hinshaw, Patty Ferguson-Bohnee and Marcy Karin recently represented the College of Law at the Conference on Clinical LegalEducation in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The annual conference is organized by the Association of American Law Schools, and is meant to provide clinical educators with concrete lessons, examples, and ideas for improving teaching, student assessment, and clinical program self-evaluation.

The opening plenary, given by Hinshaw, was titled “The Changing Face of Clinical Education: Models, Pedagogies,and Opportunities for Transfer.”

Hinshaw, along with three other panelists, discussed how the rise of non-litigation clinics has led to pedagogies of lawyering skills organized around the objectives, methods, and competencies of non-litigation work.

Ferguson-Bohnee presented a project titled “Arizona Native Voting- Election Protection Project.”

Karin participated in a panel titled “Finding Partners and Structuring Social Justice Policy Projects.”

Ferguson-Bohnee has experience in Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights, and status clarification of tribes. She has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Louisiana State Legislature regarding tribal recognition, and has successfully assisted four Louisiana tribes in obtaining state recognition.

Hinshaw’s research and teaching interests lie in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), primarily mediation and negotiation. His research bridges ADR theory and practice, and his teaching responsibilities include the Lodestar Mediation Clinic and Negotiation among other ADR courses.

Karin teaches courses on workplace flexibility law and policy, employment law and policy and legislation. She also supervises and instructs student attorneys working on behalf of clients in the Civil Justice Clinic.

Tsosie publishes article in Colorado Law Review

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Regents’ Professor Rebecca Tsosie recently authored an article, “A Philosophy of Hope   and a Landscape of Principle: The Legacy of David Getches’s Federal Indian Law Scholarship,” that was published in the University of Colorado Law Review.

David Getches, the Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, died of pancreatic cancer in 2011. He taught and wrote on water law, public land law, environmental law, and Indian law.

Tsosie teaches in the areas of Indian law, property, bioethics, and critical race theory, as well as seminars in international indigenous rights and in the College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws program. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy and cultural rights, and is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism.

Tsosie publishes book chapter

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Regents’ Professor Rebecca Tsosie recently authored a book chapter,
Climate Change  and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Models of Sovereignty in the book, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies.

The book, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., in 2013, was written and edited by Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk. Abate is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida A&M University College of Law, where he is the Director of the Center for International Law and Justice, and Project Director for the Environment, Development and Justice Program. Kronk is an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Kansas School of Law, where she is Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center.

Tsosie’s chapter will be republished as an article in the Tulane Environmental Law Journal.

Tsosie teaches in the areas of Indian law, property, bioethics, and critical race theory, as well as seminars in international indigenous rights and in the College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws program. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy and cultural rights, and is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism.

Job Posting – Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona

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Exciting news! Our jobs have
recently posted.

  1. Deputy Prosecutor
  2. Tribal Court
    Improvement Program (TCIP) Coordinator [Grant funded 3 year position]

To work in Indian Country while the TLOA and the new changes in VAWA are being implemented is a chance of a lifetime!  An added bonus is that they get to work in one of the best legal departments in Indian Country and operate in a multi-jurisdictional
landscape as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA).  The Prosecutor’s
Office will continue to progress and evolve to better serve and protect our
community!

The person selected as the TCIP Coordinator will have the opportunity to orchestrate an evaluation of our Child Welfare System and help usher in change that is long overdue!

Please advise them that the positions will not be open long (1 to 2 weeks tops), the process will be fairly quick, and they should be expeditious as well.

Remember, we are looking for self-motivated, All-Stars who have an insatiable hunger for justice!

Below is the link to our
external internet H.R. website.
Any questions up to the time we conduct interviews can be directed my way.

http://www.pascuayaqui-nsn.gov/_static_pages/employment/index.php

Respectfully,
Fred Urbina,
Chief Prosecutor
Prosecutor’s Office, Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
7777 S. Camino Huivisim, Building A
Tucson,AZ 8575
(o) 520/879-6263
(f) 520/879-6260
e-mail   alfred.urbina@pascuayaqui-nsn.gov

Contract Position – Management and Program Assistant BIA

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Management and Program Assistant who is Native American, starting May 6 if possible.

This position provides program support and secretarial assistance to the Office of Self Governance in Washington, responsibilities are focused on supporting the growth of Indian self-governance tribes and office internal requirements, such as records management, internal budget tracking, inclusion of tribal transportation data input. This position is critical for self-governance tribes to receive their compact, funding agreement and amendments in a timely and organized manner. This position offers on-going evaluation and improvements in the efficiency in the administrative processes for OSG. This position monitors and studies reports and recommends actions to correct deficiencies or improve administrative operations. This position drafts briefings for new tribes, performs research projects, handles all office procurement and internal budget management, produces a variety of documents to analyze tribal economic and compacting trends, develops surveys, uses databases and spreadsheets software to retrieve data for standard reports, meets OSG internal control review requirements in tracking funding agreements, compacts, amendments, audits, and performs administrative duties for the Office of Self Governance SES Director and other OSG staff. Salary range $35-45k starting.
Contact Sharee Freeman if interested.  sharee.freeman@bia.gov