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Alaska Law Review

2024 Symposium: Access to Justice

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

University of Alaska Anchorage

3211 Providence Dr, Anchorage

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RVSP: https://accesstojustice.rsvpify.com by October 11

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Questions: alr@law.duke.edu

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3.25 General & .75 Ethics CLE Credits

Schedule of Events:

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Check-in and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:25 a.m. Keynote Address 

• Nikole Nelson - CEO, Frontline Justice

9:25 - 10:10 a.m. Panel 1: Perspectives on Tribal Jurisdiction    

• Alex Cleghorn - Chief Operating Officer, Alaska Native Justice Center
• Kirsten Matoy Carlson - Professor of Law, Wayne State University; Faculty Scholar, ABF/JPB Acces to Justice Scholars Program 
•  Erin Dougherty Lynch - Senior Staff Attorney & Managing Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, Anchorage office
•  Rachel Weckhorst Espejo - General Counsel Team, Tlingit & Haida
•  Moderator: Kathrine Coonjohn - J.D. Candidate, Lewis & Clark Law School 

10:10 - 10:55 a.m. Panel 2: The Role of Technology in Expanding Legal Access in Courts

• JJ Prescott - Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, University of Michigan; Co-Director, Empirical Legal Studies Center; Co-Director, Program in Law and Economics
• Jeannie Sato - Director of Access to Justice Services, Alaska Court System

10:55 - 11:10 a.m. Break

11:10 - 11:55 a.m. Panel 3: Accessing Environmental Justice in Alaska

• Teresa Clemmer - Legal Director, Trustees for Alaska
• Carole Holley - Managing Attorney, Earthjustice, Alaska Office
• Moderator: Charisse Arce - Senior Attorney, Earthjustice, Alaska Office

11:55 a.m. - 12: 40 p.m. Panel 4: Power-Conscious Advocacy 

• Antonio Coronado - Project Lead, Innovation 4 Justice
• Christine Pate - Legal Program Director, Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 
• Moderator: Rick Haskins-Garcia - Director of Law and Policy, Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center

12:40 - 1:25 p.m. Panel 5: North to the Future: Access to Justice and the Future of Justice Work     

• Rebecca Sandefur - Director and Professor, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University 
• Matthew Burnett - Senior Program Officer, American Bar Foundation; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
• Joy Anderson - Co-Director, Community Justice Worker Resource Center, Alaska Legal Services Corporation
• Mara Kimmel - Executive Director, ACLU of Alaska
• Moderator: Pearl Pickett - Native Law Supervising Attorney, Alaska Legal Services Corporation