Lecture sponsored by the Venezuelan Consulate in the U.S.
On December 4, from 4-5:30 pm, Ricardo Colmenares Olivar, retired Superior Court of Appeals chief judge and professor of law at Zulia University (Venezuela), will present a lecture on Indigenous customary law, Indigenous jurisdiction, and alternative conflict resolution as part of the new Latin American constitutionalism, focusing on the Venezuelan case, and how this legal framework is being applied to address conflicts of jurisdiction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous authorities. Nicole Friederichs, practitioner-in-residence, Indian Law and Indigenous Peoples Clinic, Suffolk University Law School, will discuss similar cases relative to tribal nations
