American Indian Law
Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and business law.
Lauren Klosinski | February 8, 2021 | American Indian Law
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, UC Hastings Indigenous Law Center is hosting its inaugural panel event, co-sponsored by the UCSF-UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. The panelists will discuss the Impact of COVID on Native and Indigenous Communities....
Lauren Klosinski | January 29, 2021 | American Indian Law
An article from Vice details how the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma could affect the lives and sentences of Native American’s convicted of crimes in the 3 million acres of eastern Oklahoma that is now recognized as “Indian Country.” The...
Courtney Lewis | January 26, 2021 | American Indian Law
Courtney Lewis, an assistant public defender at the Alaska Public Defender Agency has published “The Indian Child Welfare Act’s Application to Civil Commitments of Indian Children in State Court Proceeding” (American Indian Law Journal). The...
Michael Doran | December 3, 2020 | American Indian Law
Michael Doran of UVA Law has posted “The Equal-Protection Challenge to Federal Indian Law” (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs, vol. 6 (2020)) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:This article addresses a significant challenge to federal Indian law...
Aila Hoss | November 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Aila Hoss of the University of Tulsa College of Law has posted “Indiana’s Indian Laws: Indigenous Erasure and Racism in the Land of the Indians” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:In response to a request for funding on Tribal and Indian law research, a director level...
Eric Williamson | November 18, 2020 | American Indian Law
A federal adoption law mandating that Native American children should be kept with Indian families whenever possible is under challenge by a white couple in Texas. They argue in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, a decision currently with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,...
