Chief Justice Angela R. Riley and Professor Suzette Malveaux in Conversation at the Eleventh Annual John Paul Stevens Lecture: The Third Sovereign: Tribal Courts and Indian Country Justice

Authors

Angela R. Riley, Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi NationFollow
Suzette Malveaux, Washington and Lee University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Speech

Publication Title

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

The Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Law School is a premier research and programming institution aiming to facilitate informed and engaged scholarship and dialogue on constitutional law. As part of this effort, it hosts the annual John Paul Stevens Lecture, named after the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stevens, who delivered the inaugural lecture in September 2011. This fireside chat brings distinguished jurists from around the country (and even world) to Colorado Law to discuss the state of the judiciary, democracy and current constitutional issues. The esteemed lecture attracts students, lawyers, scholars and community members to Colorado Law to hear about the jurist’s approach to some of the most important legal issues of the day.

The eleventh annual lecture, on October 18, 2022, was hosted in partnership with Colorado Law’s American-Indian Law Program. This program provides students with robust opportunities to study and gain practical experience in American Indian law. Together with the White Center, it chose Professor and Chief Justice Angela R. Riley to deliver the Stevens Lecture. Chief Justice Riley joins the ranks of other esteemed jurists who have given the Stevens Lecture, including; six former United States Supreme Court justices, U.S. federal circuit court judges, state supreme court justices and appellate court judges, and a former justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Chief Justice Riley is the first Tribal Court Justice, first member of a federally-recognized tribe, and first American Indian woman to deliver the lecture. This bestowed honor formally recognizes the substantial role, and necessity, of federal Indian law in American constitutional and civil rights legal jurisprudence.

Recommended Citation

Chief Justice Angela R. Riley and Professor Suzette Malveaux in Conversation at the Eleventh Annual John Paul Stevens Lecture: The Third Sovereign: Tribal Courts and Indian Country Justice, 59 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2024).