Restoring Ancestral Lands to Native American Tribes: Environmental Law Issues and Land Back Transfers
Restoring Ancestral Lands to Native American Tribes: Environmental Law Issues and Land Back Transfers
Thursday, November 13, 2025 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) (PST)
Description
You are invited to join the Environmental Law Section in a discussion about land back transfers with Alma Soongi Beck, a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law, and Professor Jo Carrillo, Director of the Indigenous Law Center at UC Law of San Francisco. For over three decades, Professor Carrillo has taught and written extensively in property and property-related subjects, including Federal Indian Law. Carrillo earned her BA from Stanford University, her JD from the University of New Mexico, and her JSD from Stanford Law School. She is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute and a former Trustee of the Law & Society Association; she was a Visiting Scholar at The Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley Law, and a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School. As a long-term project, Carrillo is co-editing a volume, with UCLA Professor of History Benjamin Madley, on redressing 19th century state sponsored harms against California Indigenous Peoples.
Speakers
Professor Jo Carrillo, Law Professor and Director of the Indigenous Law Center at UC Law SF
Alma Soongi Beck, Lathrop GPM LLP
MCLE
1.00 Hours Recognition and Elimination of Bias Credit

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