The 23rd Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference, organized by the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA), will take place March 26-28, 2009, on the UW-Madison campus, featuring a day and a half of panel discussions by prominent authorities on timely issues in Indian law.
           
The annual event begins with an opening reception, includes a banquet with guest of honor Henry Buffalo of the Jacobson Buffalo law firm, and concludes in time for the annual Wunk-Sheek Pow-wow.

Keynote speaker for the conference will be Principal Chief Chad “Corntassel” Smith of the Cherokee Nation, introduced by UW Law School William H. Hastie Fellow Michael Oeser.

Panel discussions will include:

--Wall Street, Main Street and Reservation Roads: The Financial Crisis and Indian Country

--Expert Witnesses and Testimony in Indian Treaty Law

--Women in Law and Government

--Intertribal Disputes: Who Has Jurisdiction?

--Intergovernmental Agreements: Mutual Aid and the Future of Community Cooperation


A CLE session on Tribal Probate is also planned. All panels and speeches will take place at Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.

For more information, including names of panelists and times of panels, see http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/ilsa/conference.html .

 

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