Presenting in the following sessions:
Oct 17, 2024
In Our Times: An In-House Perspective on Tribal Advocacy
9:00 AM-9:45 AM
KEYNOTE
Join keynote speaker Stephen Greetham for a personal reflection on 25 years of experience as a tribal in-house counsel. He’ll focus on the unique tensions between national advocacy and place-based work of sovereignty advancement emerging in post-McGirt Oklahoma Indian Country.
CLE Credits Pending
Stephen Greetham
Principal
Greetham Law, P.L.L.C
Stephen Greetham has worked his entire legal career on behalf of Tribal sovereigns, starting with the Nordhaus Law Firm in New Mexico and for sixteen years in various appointed government positions of legal service to the Chickasaw Nation, culminating in his service as Senior Counsel to the Nation. Greetham specializes in complex litigation, negotiation, and governmental affairs, and his scholarship has been published in the American Indian Quarterly, the Natural Resources Journal, the University of Oklahoma Law Review, the Tulsa Law Review, and the NU Forum. He has taught Federal Indian law as adjunct faculty to the University of Oklahoma College of Law and the University of New Mexico School of Law, and in spring 2024, he will join the adjunct faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law. Greetham and his wife, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham (Chickasaw), and their two dogs recently moved from Oklahoma City to Chapel Hill, where Dr. Cobb-Greetham now serves as Distinguished Professor of the Native South in University of North Carolina’s Department of American Studies.