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==Early life== ==Early life==

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Frank Pommersheim
NationalityUnited States
Alma materColumbia Law School
Harvard University
Colgate University
Occupation(s)Lawyer, Professor

Frank Pommersheim is an University of South Dakota School of Law law professor who has written extensively in the field of American Indian Law. Pommersheim is serving on several tribal appellate courts and serves as the Chief Justice for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals and the Rosebud Sioux Supreme Court. and is also notable for his involvement in the The Camden 28.

Early life

Frank Pommersheim was born in New York City but moved to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in 1974 where he worked for 10 years before joining the University of South Dakota faculty in 1984.


Education and career

Pommersheim graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University' He earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1968, and a MPA from Harvard University.

Involvement in the Camden 28

The Camden 28 were a group of "Catholic left" anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. Pommersheim, who was appropriately 28 at the time, was a member of this group's anti-Vietnam War activists. Raid resulted in a high-profile trial against the activists that was seen by many as a referendum on the Vietnam War and as an example of successful use of jury nullification.

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See also

References

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  3. http://law.lclark.edu/programs/indian_law/faculty.php. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. http://www.pbs.org/pov/camden28/update02.php. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. Miri. "Another Ann Dunham? Open Thread". We the People of the United States.
  6. https://www.usd.edu/law/frankpommersheim.cfm. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://www.usd.edu/law/frankpommersheim.cfm. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. A Scheflin, J Van Dyke (1979), Jury nullification: The contours of a controversy, Law & Contemp. Probs.


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