Description

You are invited to join the Environmental Law Section in a discussion about Indigenous sovereignty and land return. Planner, Alyssa Suárez, and Associate Professor, Jennifer Marlow, will present their project with the Yurok Tribe researching Indigenous sovereignty offshore. In the context of the Yurok Tribe’s opposition to the leasing of Yurok Ancestral Waters to offshore wind development (OSW), the research adopts the Yurok framing that OSW development poses a hazard to Tribal sovereignty as its fundamental premise. The presenters will share how offshore wind administrators and expert interviewees (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) defined sovereignty in the context of OSW development proposals and discussed Tribal sovereignty offshore as a contested concept. This study affords insights into how the recognition of Tribal inherent sovereignty offshore necessitates epistemological and methodological pluralism in governance at the federal level and models for shared governance at the state level. Co-moderators Alma Soongi Beck, a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law, and Professor Jo Carrillo, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Indigenous Law Center at UC Law of San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), will situate the presentation within the larger context of land back transfers.

Speakers

Jennifer Marlow, Associate Professor, California Polytechnic University 

Alyssa K. Suárez, Land Use Planner

Moderators

Alma Soongi Beck, attorney, Lathrop GPM LLP

Jo Carrillo, Professor, UC Law of San Francisco

MCLE

1.00 Hours Elimination of Bias Credit