Aloha,

The Post-Competition Symposium - Of Membership and Recognition - will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2012, in CR 2 at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Please join us for a lively discussion!

                   Agenda

9:00 a.m.     Registration and Light Refreshments at 9 a.m.

9:30 a.m.     Welcome

9:40 a.m.     Panel 1 - Membership: Inherent Sovereignty and Federal Limitations

11:10 a.m.    Break

11:20 a.m.   Panel 2 - Federal Recognition: Congressional Authority and the Acknowledgment Process

12:50 p.m.   Closing

The symposium will have discussion panels highlighting the issues raised in the 2012 National NALSA competition problem.

Symposium speakers include:

Stacy Leeds - former Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice and current Arkansas Law School Dean
John Waihe'e - former Governor and current Native Hawaiian Roll Commission Chair
Pilar Thomas - former Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs and current Deputy Director to the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs at the U.S. Department of of Energy
Patricia Ferguson Bohnee - Faculty Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University

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Be sure to fill-out the online form below to register for the symposium.

Tax-deductible donations can be made online by going to http://www.uhfoundation.org/HawaiiNALSA