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Cyra Akila Choudhury, associate professor at the Florida International University College of Law, recently presented at a symposium about a book called Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. The symposium, sponsored by the the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, was held at the University of California Berkeley School of Law on March 8.

The symposium brought together nationally recognized scholars from the legal academy to discuss the experiences of discrimination faced by women and particularly women of color in the academy.

Professor Choudhury gave a talk entitled “Diversity and Its Discontents” which explored the issue of discrimination and the use of differing standards of evaluation in a diverse context.

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FIU Law Professor M. Alexander Pearl will present at the “Heeding Phil Frickey’s Call: The Issues in Indian Country“ Symposium to be held on Sept. 27 and 28 at the UC Berkeley School of Law. The symposium, sponsored by Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, is focused on Indian Country issues including, crime, environmental justice, and international human rights.

“I graduated from Berkeley in 2007 and had the amazing opportunity to study under one of the most prominent scholars of Indian law ever, Philip Frickey.  He passed away at the age of 57 in July of 2010,” said Pearl.  “He was the single most important mentor to me and countless other lawyers and law professors.  The conference is dedicated to him, and his call to enhance scholarship of Indian issues with empirical or at least ‘on the ground’ perspectives.”

Professor Pearl’s presentation will focus on criminal jurisdiction in certain states subject to a federal law, referred to as Public Law 280.  The tribal-state relations in these  jurisdictions are very different than those in states not subject to Public Law 280, primarily because the state government has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes occurring on a reservation in the Indian community.  In non-Public Law 280 states, the state government has no jurisdiction.

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