The Work that we do...
PLSI (Pre-Law Summer Institute)
Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives
PLSI is an intensive two-month program which prepares American Indian and Alaska Native individuals for the rigors of law school by essentially replicating the first semester of law school. Likened to boot camp by many former participants, the PLSI concentrates its content into eight weeks of instruction, research and study, teaching students the unique methods of law school research, analysis, and writing.
Policy & Legal Analysis
AILC’s legal and policy analysis provides important and timely information to tribal governments and communities to make informed legal or policy decisions on numerous critical issues such as: judicial systems, federal and state administrative regulations and legislation, Indian social and health services, infrastructure development, and intergovernmental relationship building, to name a few.
Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals (SWITCA)
AILC’s Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals (SWITCA) Program provides an appellate court forum for tribes located in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and West Texas. Since its inception in 1989, SWITCA has allowed tribal courts to bring cases before a panel of experienced judges to render decisions at the appellate level for those tribes that do not have the financial means or governmental infrastructure to administer a court of appeals for tribal court decisions. Appellate services are available without cost to member tribes.
