Activity
Time:
Brownbag Lunch w/Sarah Deer
Date:
12:00 am –
1:30 am
Seaton Hall
Room: 316
1525 U St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: SEH
Join us for a brownbag lunch with Sarah Deer, legal scholar and author of The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.
A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Deer has documented in academic scholarship the historical and ideological underpinnings of the failure to adequately protect victims of physical and sexual abuse in Indian Country, and she has worked with grassroots and national organizations attempting to navigate the complex legal and bureaucratic hurdles facing Native victims of violence… . In spearheading a 2007 Amnesty International report, Maze of Injustice, Deer reframed the problem of sexual violence in Indian Country as an international human rights issue… .
Deer’s efforts were instrumental in the passage of two landmark pieces of legislation: The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. With her current focus on building tribal infrastructure and reinvigorating the rich history of Native Americans’ pre-colonial criminal justice systems as a source for contemporary laws and policies, Deer is profoundly reshaping the landscape of support and protection for Native American women.
Sarah Deer received a B.A. (1995) and J.D. (1999) from the University of Kansas. She was a victim advocacy legal specialist and staff attorney at the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (2002–2008) prior to joining the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law in 2009, where she is currently a professor and co-director of the Indian Law Clinic.
A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Deer has documented in academic scholarship the historical and ideological underpinnings of the failure to adequately protect victims of physical and sexual abuse in Indian Country, and she has worked with grassroots and national organizations attempting to navigate the complex legal and bureaucratic hurdles facing Native victims of violence… . In spearheading a 2007 Amnesty International report, Maze of Injustice, Deer reframed the problem of sexual violence in Indian Country as an international human rights issue… .
Deer’s efforts were instrumental in the passage of two landmark pieces of legislation: The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. With her current focus on building tribal infrastructure and reinvigorating the rich history of Native Americans’ pre-colonial criminal justice systems as a source for contemporary laws and policies, Deer is profoundly reshaping the landscape of support and protection for Native American women.
Sarah Deer received a B.A. (1995) and J.D. (1999) from the University of Kansas. She was a victim advocacy legal specialist and staff attorney at the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (2002–2008) prior to joining the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law in 2009, where she is currently a professor and co-director of the Indian Law Clinic.