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Please consider enrolling in our upcoming January in Tucson 2018 graduate and JD level intensive education courses on Indigenous governance, law, and policy. The deadline to apply is December 22, 2018. You can select from 14 courses on topics ranging from Exploring Data for Nation Building, to Tribal Business Law, to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Under International Law.
 
January in Tucson 2018 is also offering 3 new courses. Tribal Business Law will focus on the unique challenges tribes face when legislating and seeking to regulate business activity within Indian Country. The course will be taught by Matthew Fletcher, a leading Indian law scholar and Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law.
 
Indigenous Food Sovereignty will explore how the food sovereignty movement has changed international trade institutions, property rights, and human rights law. The course will be taught by Michael Fakhri, faculty member of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, where he
co-leads the Food Resiliency Project at the University of Oregon School of Law.
 
Business Ethics and Indigenous Values will compare and contrast business ethics informed by enlightenment values and Indigenous knowledge systems. The course will be taught by Chris Derickson, Councilor of the West Bank First Nation, and Mark Selman, PhD, Director of the Executive MBA Cohort for Aboriginal Business and Leadership at Simon Fraser University.

Our first speaker for the spring 2018 semester is Michael Fakhri, Associate Professor of Law and
Co-Director of the Food Resiliency Project at the University of Oregon School of Law. Professor Fakhri will discuss how the food sovereignty movement has been a powerful force that, over the past several decades, has changed international trade institutions, property rights, and human rights law. He will also explore how Indigenous communities have been a key part of that movement and have affected how food sovereignty is used and understood as an idea.

Professor Fakhri’s current research focuses on how Inuit seal hunting in the Arctic is defining the relationship between international trade law and concepts of sovereignty.

Food Sovereignty and International Political Economy
January 10, 12:15-1:15 PM
Faculty Lounge (room 237)
James E. Rogers College of Law
1201 E. Speedway
Tucson, Arizona 85721

November 2, 2017: Professor Williams gave a presentation titled “Savage Anxieties: American Indian Treaty Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Human Rights” at the University of Cincinnati as part of Native American Heritage Month.
 
November 2, 2017: Professor Tsosie presented at DePaul University’s Conference “Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: A New Paradigm.” Tsosie’s presentation focused on cultural property rights and was titled "Sovereigns vs. Peoples: Who Has Rights in Cultural Heritage?"
 
November 9, 2017: Professor Tsosie gave a presentation on intangible cultural heritage for a conference at the University of Oklahoma, Noble Museum focused on Native American music as intellectual and cultural property.
 
November 20, 2017: Professor Rebecca Tsosie presented “History of Diversity and the Importance of Inclusion in the Workplace” to staff at the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Professor Tsosie discussed the importance of including tribal governments within the basic structures of domestic society, and the historical and contemporary challenges to inclusion. She also discussed best practices for effective intergovernmental relations and intercultural communication between tribal governments and institutions and federal institutions.
 
November 30, 2017: Professor Howard led a workshop on tackling global challenges with Human Rights Education at the 8^th International Human Rights Education Conference in Montreal, Canada.
 
December 7–8, 2017: Professor Hershey was a panelist on climate justice and Professor Tsosie presented on a panel discussion about cultural heritage as a human right. Both panels were part of the Cultures Under Water: Climate Impacts on Tribal Cultural Heritage conference in Tempe, Arizona.