ALR Symposium 2024 | Expanding Access to Justice in Alaska
The Alaska Law Review and University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center will hold the 2024 Symposium on Expanding Access to Justice in Alaska. The conference will be held on October 16, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. AKDT at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
The conference will include various panelists and cover topics ranging from structural barriers to legal reform, tribal law, Alaska’s legal services shortage, legal ethics, and so on.
https://alr.law.duke.edu/symposium/2024-symposium/
Check-in and breakfast
8:30-9:00
Keynote Address Nikole Nelson
9:00-9:25 CEO, Frontline Justice
Panel 1: Perspectives on Tribal Alex Cleghorne
Jurisdiction Alaska Native Justice Center
9:25-10:10 Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Wayne State
Erin Dougherty Lynch
Native American Rights Fund
Rachel Weckhorst Espejo
General Counsel Team, Tlingit & Haida
Moderator: Katherine Coonjohn
J.D. Candidate, Lewis & Clark Law School
Panel 2: The Role of Technology in J.J. Prescott
Expanding Legal Access in Courts University of Michigan
10:10-10:55 Jeannie Sato
Alaska Court System
Break
10:55-11:10
Panel 3: Accessing Environmental Teresa Clemmer
Justice in Alaska Trustees for Alaska
11:10-11:55 Carole Holley
Earthjustice, Alaska Office
Vi Waghiyi
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Moderator: Charisse Arce
Senior Attorney, Earthjustice, Alaska Office
Panel 4: Power-Conscious Advocacy Antonio Coronado
11:55-12:40 Project Lead, Innovation 4 Justice
Christine Pate
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault
Moderator: Rick Haskins-Garcia
Alaska Native Women's Resource Center
Panel 5: North to the Future: Access Rebecca Sandefur
to Justice and the Future of Justice Arizona State University
Work Matthew Burnett
12:40-1:25 American Bar Association
Joy Anderson
Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Mara Kimmel
ALCU of Alaska
Moderator: Pearl Pickett
Alaska Legal Services Corporation