Lindsay Robertson, Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law and faculty director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Robert Cheren, associate at Baker & Hostetler LLP, analyze the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma in an online program. Immediately following, Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, and Sunu Chandy, legal director of the National Women’s Law Center, discuss Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Participants
- Panel One
- Lindsay Robertston is the faculty director for Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy, Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law, and the Sam K. Viersen Family Foundation Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Roberston has been Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Department of State delegations to the Working Groups on the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a member of the U.S Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law, and served an advisor on indigenous peoples law to the Chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
- Robert Cheren is an associate at BakerHostetier. He has represented parties and amici curiae in numerous proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court and three U.S. Courts of Appeals, served as Special Assistant to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Cheren’s cases have received front-page coverage in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and his practice has been covered in more than 60 articles in Law360. He has also published articles in law journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Texas Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and more.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
- Lindsay Robertston is the faculty director for Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy, Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law, and the Sam K. Viersen Family Foundation Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Roberston has been Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Department of State delegations to the Working Groups on the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a member of the U.S Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law, and served an advisor on indigenous peoples law to the Chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
- Panel Two
- Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes and Academic Legal Writing, as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles.
- Sunu Chandy is the Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center. She helped to create the Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity and build the policies and procedures guiding the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. She also provides guidance for the Center’s policy positions towards greater workplace equality. In the Spring of 2019 she provided Congressional testimony in support of the Equality Act, a bill that would strengthen and clarify civil rights protections including for LGBTQ individuals and provided testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Federal Sector and #metoo. Sunu also currently serves on the board of directors for the Transgender Law Center and also volunteers with Split This Rock, a national social justice poetry organization.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
- Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes and Academic Legal Writing, as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles.
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