October 2010

Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor Elizabeth McCormick presented her most recent article, “U” is Not for Undeserving: Rethinking Indirect Victim Eligibility For U Non-Immigrant Visas to Better Protect Immigrant Families and Communities, at a faculty workshop at Washburn University Law School on October 15, 2010.

Professor McCormick was also awarded a $4500 grant from the Oklahoma Bar Foundation to support the work of the Immigrant Rights Project.

Professor Hannah Wiseman was awarded a $2,650 grant from the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation to fund research and teaching material expenses for her spring seminar, Electricity Law: Renewables, Nonrenewables, and Transmission.

Professor Tom Arnold has published ’It’s Déjà vu All Over Again,’ Using Bounty Hunters to Leverage Gatekeeper Duties,” 45 Tulsa L. Rev. 419 (2010).

Professor Judith Royster spoke on Tribal Energy Development at the William Mitchell College of Law 1st annual Indian Law Conference on October 25.

Student Accomplishments:

Megan Meyers (JD May ’11) has accepted a judicial clerkship with Chief Judge David Herndon of the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis. She will be serving a two year term beginning fall 2011.

Alumni News:

Diane Thomas Clayton (JD ’95) is a professor at Rogers State University. Ms. Clayton is the sixth NALC alumni in a professorial position. She will teach an Indian law course as part of their Native American studies program.