The weather outside may be frightful, but you can still get into the spirit with this delightful sampling of law-themed holiday resources from around the web.
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100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans
This is a recording of a presentation conducted on November 19, 2024. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Law Library proudly presented 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans. This traveling exhibit, curated by the ABA and available for viewing in the Law Library's reading room during the month of November, offered a compelling journey through the legal milestones, setbacks, and advocacy efforts that shaped Native American voting rights, both before and after the 1924 Act. The five exhibit panels provided a unique perspective on how Native American leaders and legal activists have tirelessly worked to secure an essential democratic right—voting—and how these struggles continue to shape the legal landscape today. The remote guest speaker at the CLE event in November was Torey Dolan.
This recording is accredited by the State Bar of Texas for accredited for 1.0 CLE hours and 0.25 hours of ethics through November 30, 2025.
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: Exhibit and CLE on Native American Voting Rights
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library is proud to feature a special traveling exhibit: 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans.
Read moreGeography and the Law: Identifying Legal Deserts with GIS Mapping Tools
In 2016, during Geography Awareness Week, Ex Libris Juris featured a brief discussion of GIS mapping technology and its applications for understanding Access to Justice (A2J). In the years since, opportunities for GIS data analysis in the A2J community have only grown. Today, November 20, is GIS Day, the perfect time to highlight additional uses of GIS software for analysis of datasets relevant to law. An assortment of GIS applications for legal contexts are mentioned in the list below, alongside two additional short compilations—a sampling of StoryMaps and a beginner’s collection of mapping tools for your own GIS projects.
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