American Indian Law
Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and business law.
Dylan Hedden-Nicely | January 6, 2023 | American Indian Law
Below is the abstract for “The Terms of their Deal: Revitalizing the Treaty Right to Limit State Jurisdiction in Indian Country,” available for download on SSRN. For over two hundred years the “whole course of judicial decision” in the United States has...
Kelly Stoner and Lauren van Schilfgaarde | December 8, 2022 | American Indian Law
Below is the abstract for “Addressing the Oliphant in the Room: Domestic Violence and the Safety and American Indian and Alaska Native Children in Indian Country,” available for download on SSRN. The health and wellbeing of American Indian and Alaska Native families...
Madison Bessho | November 8, 2022 | American Indian Law
The University of Oregon School of Law hosted the 16th annual Rennard Strickland Lecture Series, featuring a talk by Matthew L.M. Fletcher of University of Michigan Law School. Fletcher served as Reporter on Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians. The...
Amy Howe | November 8, 2022 | American Indian Law
This piece was featured by SCOTUSblog.com on November 8, 2022, it was originally published at Howe on the Court. In 2012, the late Justice Antonin Scalia called a dispute arising from the adoption of Native American twins in a Mississippi state court the most...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher | October 6, 2022 | American Indian Law
Below is the abstract for “Teaching Indian Law in the 21st Century” available for download on SSRN. Since the first Indian law classes were offered in the late 1960s and early 1970s, law teachers mostly have considered the field a niche specialty, even a backwater,...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Randall F. Khalil | September 26, 2022 | American Indian Law
Below is the abstract for “Preemption, Commandeering, and the Indian Child Welfare Act,” available for download on SSRN. This year (2022), the Supreme Court agreed to review wide-ranging constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) brought by the...
