Honoring Our Sisters: Rethinking Tribal Court Jurisdiction
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Online Webinar
Cost: FREE
Register: Here
MCLE: 1 Hour of Elimination of Bias MCLE Credit
About the Program
Please join us on Thursday, July 15, at noon, for a presentation on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women movement underway throughout the United States and Canada. Topics to be addressed include the bias that causes so many victims of violent crime to go unnoticed as well the socioeconomic, cultural, and legal factors that allow their killers and perpetrators to avoid conviction.
About the Speaker
Mark Vezzola is a Directing Attorney with California Indian Legal Services. His practice includes estate planning for individuals under the American Indian Probate Reform Act, Indian child welfare advocacy, advising Native organizations, tribal boards, and committees, administering tribal elections, code drafting, and defending casino tort claims. Mark currently serves as the Chief Judge of the Pala Tribal Court in Pala, California, and the Chemehuevi Tribal Court in Havasu Lake, California. Mark graduated from UMass-Amherst with a B.A. in history and from UCLA with a J.D. and M.A. in American Indian Studies. During law school, he clerked for the Hopi Appellate Court and interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Tribal Justice in Washington DC.
This webinar is part of our series of continuing legal education (CLE) classes. Since the interruptions in the Law Library’s operations in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have transitioned our CLE programs online as webinars. These courses have been in high demand and spaces fill up quickly so, please, sign up now to reserve your spot. You will receive an email with your login information after registering for the event.
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How about opening this up to more folks?
Unfortunately, our Zoom subscription limits the capacity for our webinars to 100. We did receive permission from our partners at California Indian Legal Services to publish this event on our YouTube Channel. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxlfVpNosU&t=11s.