16th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Описание: The 16th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture will took place on Monday, October 24th at 6:00pm at the William W. Knight Law Center of the University of Oregon School of Law. This year we welcome Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa) as our guest speaker.

Mathew L.M Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He currently sits as the Chief Justice of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Fletcher also serves as an appellate judge for the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and the Tulalip Tibes. He is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

This lecture is part of a series established by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center in 2006 to honor Rennard Strickland, late dean of University of Oregon School of Law. Strickland served as Oregon Law's dean from 1997 to 2002 and remained part of the law school's faculty until his retirement in 2006. He was Osage, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and widely regarded as a national leader in Indian law and policy. The Rennard Strickland Lecture series is designed to recognize and underscore the importance of Indigenous environmental leadership in the 21st century, in keeping with Strickland's vision for an "Indian future" (Tonto's Revenge 1997).