Law and Culture Day
Total Credits: 5.75 including 5.0 General, 0.75 Ethics
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- Categories:
- Alaska Native Law
- Faculty:
- Alex Cleghorn | Maria Williams | Jessica Ross | Shauna Hegna | Erin Dougherty Lynch | Kyan Olanna | Meghan Tapqaq
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 47 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Law and Culture Day
In partnership with Alaska Native Justice Center
5.0 General CLE & .75 Ethics Credits
CLE# 2025005
Recorded: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Agenda:
Welcome
Alex Cleghorn, ANJC
History & Overview of Alaska Native Experience (60 min)
Maria Williams & Jessica Ross, UAA
ANCSA & Alaska Native Self-Determination within Regional and Village Corporations and Tribes (60 min)
Shauna Hegna, Koniag Corporation
Alex Cleghorn, Tangirnaq Native Village and ANJC
Subsistence (60 min)
Erin Dougherty Lynch, NARF
Alaska Tribal Justice and VAWA 2022 (50 min)
Alex Cleghorn, ANJC
Self-Determination and Tribal Service Delivery (50 min)
Kyan Olanna, CITC
Working with Tribal Courts (45 min Ethics)
Meghan (Sigvanna) Tapqaq, Kawerak
Closing
Alex Cleghorn, ANJC
Handouts
| Law and Culture Day Materials (18.4 MB) | 102 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Alex Cleghorn Related Seminars and Products
Alaska Native Justice Center
Maria Williams Related Seminars and Products
University of Alaska Anchorage
Jessica Ross Related Seminars and Products
University of Alaska Anchorage
Shauna Hegna Related Seminars and Products
Koniag, Inc.
Erin Dougherty Lynch Related Seminars and Products
Native American Rights Fund
Erin Dougherty Lynch is a staff attorney based in the Anchorage office. At NARF, Erin works on a variety of federal Indian law issues, including child welfare, subsistence hunting and fishing rights, voting rights, tribal jurisdiction and sovereignty, and issues related to the relocation of coastal villages threatened by erosion and other problems associated with climate change. She is heavily involved in issues related to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) on both the state and national level, and she successfully argued Simmonds v. Parks in the Alaska Supreme Court.
Erin graduated from Willamette University where she was a double major in Politics and History, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Truman Scholar. Prior to law school Erin was a Fulbright Scholar based at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø (Romsa), Norway where she conducted masters-level research on Sámi political mobilization and indigenous self-governance within international and Norwegian legal frameworks. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2008.
