New Indian Law Section List Serve
The Indian Law Section Executive Committee has decided to take advantage of the list serve opportunities offered to the Section by the Oregon State Bar. This decision was made with the goal of increasing interaction among Section members and to provide a forum for Section members to ask questions of or share information with other Section members. Please click here for more information about the list serve, including instructions on how to use the list serve and how to remove yourself from the list.
Indian Law Section 2009 Student Writing Competition Winner Announced
Congratulations to Teresa G. Jacobs, winner of the Oregon State Bar Indian Law Section 2009 Student Writing Competition! Teresa is a third year law student at the University of Oregon, where she serves as a Native Environmental Sovereignty Project fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. Please click here to read Teresa’s article, Federal Permitting of the Desert Rock Power Plant: A Case Study Advocating for Application of the Indian Trust Doctrine. Thank you to all of the students who submitted articles for the competition.
About the Indian Law Section
The goal of the Indian Law Section of the Oregon State Bar is to encourage a greater understanding and improve the practice of Indian law throughout Oregon. The ILS represents a wide spectrum of attorneys who handle cases, transactions and other matters involving Indian law, including attorneys in private practice, attorneys who work as in-house attorneys for Indian tribes, attorneys for non-profit organizations advocating for tribal rights, and attorneys who serve as tribal court judges for Indian tribes in Oregon. The ILS was organized in 1995 by practitioners working in Indian country in Oregon and is open to all members of the Bar as well as non-attorneys. Membership can include persons who are attorneys, tribal court judges, tribal leaders and tribal members, or anyone else interested in Indian law issues. The ILS currently has 170 members.
February 2010
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