{"id":400,"date":"2007-11-08T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=400"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:25:25","slug":"university-of-south-dakota-law-professor-to-speak-on-indian-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/university-of-south-dakota-law-professor-to-speak-on-indian-law\/","title":{"rendered":"University of South Dakota Law Professor to Speak on Indian Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span>OXFORD, Miss. &#8212; A University of South Dakota law professor<br \/>\nwith expertise in Indian Law is slated to deliver a lecture<br \/>\nNov. 15 on the subject at the University of Mississippi.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Frank Pommersheim&#8217;s address &#8220;Broken Landscape: Indian<br \/>\nTribes and the Constitution&#8221; is set for 4 p.m. in the<br \/>\nWilliam N. Ethridge Jr. Moot Court Room of the Lamar Law<br \/>\nCenter. The presentation and reception to follow are open<br \/>\nto the public.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>&#8220;I am greatly looking forward to my visit to the University<br \/>\nof Mississippi School of Law and the opportunity to meet<br \/>\nstudents, faculty and members of the community,&#8221;<br \/>\nPommersheim said. &#8220;A key and unresolved question within the<br \/>\nfield of Indian law, whether in Mississippi or elsewhere,<br \/>\nis the relationship of Indian tribes within our national<br \/>\nconstitutional structure. This is the topic that will be<br \/>\nthe focus of my presentation.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Before he began teaching at South Dakota in 1984,<br \/>\nPommersheim lived and worked on the Rosebud Sioux<br \/>\nReservation for 10 years. He serves on a number of tribal<br \/>\nappellate courts throughout Indian country. He is the<br \/>\nassociate justice for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw<br \/>\nSupreme Court and was recently selected chief justice of<br \/>\nthe Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Law Dean Samuel M. Davis said the law school is delighted<br \/>\nto have someone of Pommersheim&#8217;s standing lecturing at the<br \/>\nlaw school. &#8220;With the significant presence of the<br \/>\nMississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in the state, his topic<br \/>\nis of great interest to all of us,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;I look<br \/>\nforward to meeting him and listening to his lecture.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Originally from New York, Pommersheim received his juris<br \/>\ndoctorate from Columbia University and his master&#8217;s of<br \/>\npublic administration from Harvard University. His<br \/>\nrecognition includes the University of South Dakota<br \/>\nBelbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching and the<br \/>\nDistinguished Lecturer for the Northern Plains Indian Law<br \/>\nCenter.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Pommersheim has shared his extensive knowledge of Indian<br \/>\nLaw through his books, numerous articles and contribution<br \/>\nto the 2005 edition of Felix Cohen&#8217;s Handbook of Federal<br \/>\nIndian Law. He is the author of &#8220;Braid of Feathers:<br \/>\nAmerican Indian Law &#038; Contemporary Tribal Life&#8221; (University<br \/>\nof California Press, 1997) and is working on a book titled<br \/>\n&#8220;Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes and the<br \/>\nConstitution.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>For additional information or assistance related to a<br \/>\ndisability, contact Connie Lamb at 662-915-6900 or<br \/>\nclamb@olemiss.edu. 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