Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business Agenda
May 1st, 2008Business Law Symposium 2008
Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business Agenda
April 4, 2008
Spring Symposium 2008
This conference brings together scholars from around the country, most of whom are tribal citizens and experienced in economic development, to discuss the practical and the theoretical issues facing American Indian governments in their task to bring economic development to their reservations that is both profitable, sustainable, and culturally appropriate.
Welcome and Keynote Address
Dean Robert Klonoff, Associate Dean Lisa LeSage
Introduction by Professor Robert Miller
Richard Monette: “A Tribal Constitution for Government and Business”
Session I
Gavin Clarkson: “Guaranteed Indians: Tribal Access to Capital and the Indian Financing Act”
David Haddock: “To Tax Tribes or Not to Tax Tribes: That is the Question”
Session II
Kevin Washburn: “The NIGC and the Trust Responsibility”
Judith Royster: “Economic Development, Natural Resources, and the Secretary’s Shrinking Role”
Session III
Matthew Fletcher: “Indian Tribal Business and the Off-Reservation Market”
Alexander Skibine: “Tribal Sovereign Interests Beyond the Reservation Borders. Some Implications for Economic Development”
Robert Miller: “International and Domestic Treaties to Promote American Indian Economic Development”
Final Session
Oregon State Bar Indian Law Section
Closing of Conference and Reception
This symposium is sponsored by Orrick Herrington and the Oregon State Bar Indian Division.
The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on April 4th, 2008.
