Professor Matthew Fletcher will give a lecture describing the ins and outs of
the unique American tribal court system.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
12:30pm � 2:00pm
Lunch will be provided
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Matthew L.M. Fletcher is Professor of Law at Michigan State University
College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is
the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also
sits as an appellate judge for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the
Hoopa Valley Tribe, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians. He
is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
located in Peshawbestown, Michigan. In 2010, Professor Fletcher was elected
to the American Law Institute.
Professor Fletcher recently published the sixth edition of Cases and
Materials on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West 2011) with David Getches,
Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams, and American Indian Tribal Law
(Aspen, forthcoming March 2011), the first casebook for law students on
tribal law, among many other texts. Professor Fletcher graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and the University of Michigan in
1994. He has worked as a staff attorney for four Indian Tribes � the Pascua
Yaqui Tribe, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Grand
Traverse Band, and he has been a consultant to the Seneca Nation of Indians
Court of Appeal.
To RSVP, contact Lisa Del Col at lisa.delcol@utoronto.ca
