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The University of Tulsa College of Law and the Native American Law Center presented the conference, “International Law: Future Impacts on the Tribal-Federal Relationship,” on Friday, October 8, 2010, at TU’s John Rogers Hall in the Price & Turpen Courtroom.

Presenters include:

Dr. Julian Burger, retired Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Unit, Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations – Some Good Runs But the Match is Not Over”

Joshua Cooper, Lecturer in political science at the University of Hawai’i East-West Center, Director of the Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, and Director of Four Freedoms Forum

Robert “Tim” Coulter, Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, Montana, and Washington D.C.

Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Adjunct Professor, TU College of Law, and Of Counsel for Crowe & Dunlevy “The Impact of the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Future of Federal Indian Law”

Elizabeth Kronk, Assistant Professor, University of Montana School of Law, and Chief Judge, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Court of Appeals “Modern Miner’s Canary: The Effects of Climate Change on Indigenous Communities in China and the United States”

Chief J. Wilton Littlechild, International Chief for Treaty Nos. 6, 7 & 8 (Alberta), and former two-term member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues “For Respect and Recognition!” (Indigenous Peoples International Work)

Bryan Newland, Policy Adviser to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior

Aliza Organick, Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law “Re-envisioning Tribal and State Relationships: The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a Blueprint?”

Rebecca Tsosie, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law, and Executive Director, Indian Legal Program, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University “The Future of Tribal Self-Determination: Does U.S. Federal Indian Law Meet International Standards for Indigenous Rights?”