8:15 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Dean Robert Klonoff

9:00 a.m.

Session I: Indigenous Rights in the Americas

Territorial and Natural Resources Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Inter-American Human Rights Norms, Federico Guzman

Reconceptualizing Tribal Rights: Can Self-Determination be Actualized within the U.S. Constitutional Structure?, Professor Rebecca Tsosie

10:25 a.m.

Break

10:40 a.m.

Session II: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States, New Zealand, and Beyond

Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Judicial Conquest of Native America, Professor Lindsay Robertson

The Doctrine of Discovery in New Zealand and Australia, Professor Blake Watson

The International Law of Discovery around the Globe, Professor Robert Miller

Moderator and Commenter, Professor Michael Blumm   

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.

Session III:  Indigenous Issues in Canada

“Discovery” in the First Person: Indigenous Laws, Experiences and Understanding in Our Nations. (Panel) Professors Maria Campbell, Tracey Lindberg, and Sarah Morales.

3:30 p.m.

Break

3:45 p.m.

Session IV: International Indigenous Issues

The United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples: Improving Federal Law and Policy, Robert T. Coulter

Foreign Investment & Indigenous Peoples, Professor George K. Foster

5:00 p.m.

Closing of Conference