May 3, 2013: Law Day Panel: Societal Impacts of Civil Rights Cases before the Roberts Court 3:30-4:30 pm Room 002, Rockefeller Center Participants: Bruce Duthu '80 Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies (NAS), Chair of the NAS Program Professor N. Bruce Duthu is an internationally recognized scholar of Native American law and policy. He joined the regular faculty at Dartmouth in 2008 as professor of Native American Studies. Professor Duthu earned his BA degree in religion and Native American studies from Dartmouth College and his JD degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, Professor Duthu was on the law faculty at Vermont Law School. He served as the law school's Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and as director of the VLS-Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) Partnership in Environmental Law. He also served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, the universities of Wollongong and Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Trento in northern Italy. He is the author of American Indians and the Law (2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. He also contributed chapters for two other books, Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts: Canadian and International (2004) and First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (1997). Julie Kalish '91 Lecturer in Writing, Institute for Writing & Rhetoric Julie Kalish not only has students reading and writing about constitutional law in the courses she teaches for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric -- Writing 5 and Writing 41: Writing and Speaking Public Policy -- she is also at the forefront of defending constitutional rights via her work for the Vermont ACLU. Most recently for the ACLU, Professor Kalish and her colleague Attorney Bernie Lambek represented Franklin, Vermont resident Marilyn Hackett in Hackett v. the Town of Franklin. For years, Ms. Hackett had complained that the recital of a sectarian prayer at the opening of her town's annual meeting was unconstitutional. Attorneys Kalish and Lambek argued their case based on Vermont Constitution's Article 3, which ensures freedom of conscience while prohibiting state endorsement of any religion through compelled attendance at worship—an argument that prevailed in the Vermont Superior Court. Professor Kalish and her colleague were awarded the Jonathan B Chase Cooperating Attorney Award for their achievement.