The ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Supreme Court today announced the transfer of The Sovereignty Symposium to ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City University. The Sovereignty Symposium was established by the ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Supreme Court to provide a forum in which ideas concerning common legal issues among federal and state officials and the stateβs Native American tribes can be exchanged in a scholarly, non-adversarial environment. The ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Supreme Court espoused no view on any of the issues, and the positions taken by symposium participants were not endorsed by the Supreme Court.
The next symposium will take place June 13-14, 2023, at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City. Titled βTreaties,β the keynote speaker will be Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, a Life Peer and a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. More details will be released later on the event website at .
The ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City University School of Law has a long history of teaching and working in ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Indian Country. ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Law houses the American Indian Law and Sovereignty Center, as well as its American Indian Wills Clinic.
βΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City University is honored to be able to host and administer The Sovereignty Symposium for the years to come,β ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ President Kenneth Evans said. βOur School of Law and our university at-large emphasize collaboration with ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½βs 39 tribal governments and their citizens. Hosting the symposium is a natural extension of our continuing efforts.β
ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Darby said that βthe transfer enables ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ to expand the event in a more robust way and offer even more educational opportunities to students and the legal community.β
