Alaska Law Review: Volume in Review

ALR: Volume in Review
Presented in partnership with Alaska Law Review

Recorded: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
1.5 General Credits  
VOD_2025014
Registration fee: Free
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Topics:
Housing, Health & Welfare: Envisioning an Alaskan Right to Housing - Helen Malley, ACLU of Alaska Skadden Legal Fellow

Housing, Health & Welfare: Envisioning an Alaskan Right to Housing is a Constitutional Comment, which argues that the Alaska Constitution already encompasses a fundamental right to housing. Implied within the Alaska Constitution’s provisions on health and welfare is an affirmative right to adequate and affordable housing, and, implied within its provisions on privacy and liberty is a negative right to self-shelter. Together, these two rights form the basis of the fundamental right to housing held by all Alaskans.

The Corporate Governance of the Biggest Corporations You've Never Heard Of. - Aaron Schutt, President and CEO of Doyon

The article and this presentation will review the statutory and regulatory requirements of Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) related to corporate governance, including the various requirements around ANC annual meetings of shareholders. The article reviews case law from state and federal courts interpreting and applying the law to ANCs over the past fifty years. The article also reviews the rights and duties of directors and officers of ANCs and ANC shareholder participation in corporate governance. 

Faculty:
Helen Malley
ACLU of Alaska Skadden Legal Fellow
Helen Malley (she/her) is the ACLU of Alaska's Skadden Legal Fellow. Her fellowship project focuses on recognizing and advancing Alaskans' fundamental right to housing. Helen has a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where she focused on human rights law and advocacy. While in law school, Helen interned with ACLU's Human Rights Program and served as Student Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.

Aaron Schutt
President and CEO of Doyon
As President and CEO of Doyon, Limited, Aaron M. Schutt is responsible for working with the Board of Directors to set the overall direction of the Doyon Family of Companies and provide leadership to its senior management team. Schutt has worked at Doyon since 2006. Prior to being named President and CEO, Schutt served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2011.
Schutt clerked for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Alexander Bryner after receiving his juris doctorate from Stanford Law School. He holds a master’s of science in civil engineering from Stanford University and graduated with honors and as an S. Town Stephenson scholar from Washington State University with a bachelor’s of science in civil engineering. Before joining Doyon in 2006, Schutt was an attorney at the Anchorage offices of national law firms Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Munson, LLP, and Heller Ehrman, LLP, where he represented tribal and ANCSA corporation clients in transactional and business matters.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Northrim BanCorp, Inc., Akeela, Inc., and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Board of Advisors. He also coaches youth hockey. Schutt is Koyukon Athabascan and is an enrolled member of the Native Village of Tanana. He was born in Anchorage and raised in Tok. He is married to Marissa Flannery and together they have two sons and a daughter.
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Learn more about Alaska Law Review: The Alaska Law Review is a scholarly publication that examines legal issues affecting the state of Alaska. It is composed of second and third year law students from Duke University School of Law, and governed by a faculty advisor committee. 
The ALR publishes in June and December. In publishing these issues, the ALR seeks to provide articles related to current legal trends and issues of practical importance to the Alaska Bar. For more information, visit https://alr.law.duke.edu/.