American Indian Law
Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and business law.
Elizabeth A. Reese | June 1, 2021 | American Indian Law
This article was originally published by SCOTUSblog.com on June 1, 2021. View the original post here. In its first major opinion on the scope of American Indian tribes’ sovereign powers in decades, the Supreme court held on Tuesday in United States v. Cooley that...
Jennifer Morinigo | May 25, 2021 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Data Economy, Policing, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
The first segment of this year’s virtual Annual Meeting adjourned last week. Below is a summary of the actions taken on May 17 and 18. All approvals by the membership at the Annual Meeting are subject to the discussion at the Meeting and the usual editorial...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel, Kaighn Smith, Jr. and Jennifer Morinigo | May 17, 2021 | American Indian Law
ALI members voted today at The American Law Institute’s Annual Meeting to approve Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians. This is the first Restatement on this important area of law. The project Reporters are Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Wenona T. Singel,...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Lyrissa B. Lidsky, Geoffrey P. Miller, Kenneth W. Simons and Christiane C. Wendehorst | May 4, 2021 | American Indian Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Data Economy, Inside The ALI, Torts: Defamation and Privacy, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
Have you ever wondered what exactly goes into completing an ALI project? There’s nobody better to talk about the ALI process than four veteran Reporters whose projects may be completed at the 2021 Annual Meeting. In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, Reporter on one...
Angelique W. EagleWoman | March 2, 2021 | American Indian Law
Angelique W. EagleWoman of Mitchell Hamline School of Law has written “Jurisprudence and Recommendations for Tribal Court Authority Due to Imposition of U.S. Limitations” (Mitchell Hamline Law Review, Vol. 47). The following is the introduction, citations...
Deanna Tamborelli | February 10, 2021 | American Indian Law
Deanna Tamborelli of Boston University School of Law has published “Beyond VAWA: Localism as an Argument for Full Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction” (Boston University Law Review). The following is the abstract. American Indian and Alaskan Native (“AI/AN” or...
