ALI members voted 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, both of Michigan State University College of Law, and Kaighn Smith, Jr. of Drummond Woodsum.
Kaighn Smith, Jr. Posts
Tribal Economic Development – Indian Gaming
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | May 19, 2020 | American Indian Law
The following text is excerpted from Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, Tentative Draft No. 4, Chapter. 4. Tribal Economic Development. The video included with this post provides an overview of the entire draft.
Tribal Economic Development – Tribal Regulatory Powers on Indian Lands
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | May 18, 2020 | American Indian Law
The following text is excerpted from Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, Tentative Draft No. 4, Chapter. 4. Tribal Economic Development
Now Available: Law of American Indians ALI CLE Courses
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Mar 6, 2020 | American Indian Law
Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians Reporter Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Associate Reporters Wenona T. Singel and Kaighn Smith Jr. recently teamed up with ALI CLE to offer two courses on the Law of American Indians.
The Indian Child Welfare Act and Similar State Laws
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | May 17, 2019 | American Indian Law
Tentative Draft No. 3 Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians will be presented to membership at ALI’s 96th Annual Meeting. The following entry is the Introductory Note to Chapter 3, Subchapter 2 on the Indian Child Welfare Act and Similar State Laws included in the draft.
American Indian Law: Tribal Economic Enterprises
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Apr 30, 2019 | American Indian Law
The following entry contains the Black Letter and Comments of Tentative Draft No. 3, Section 58. Tribal Economic Enterprises.
Indian Country Criminal Jurisdiction
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Apr 19, 2019 | American Indian Law
The following entry is excerpted from the Reporters Introductory Note on Chapter 5 – Indian Country Criminal Jurisdiction, and Black Letter and Comments of Section 100. Indian Country.
Tribal Powers over Nonmembers – Part 2
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Apr 30, 2018 | American Indian Law
This is the second post that presents the Sections from the 2018 American Indian Law Annual Meeting draft that deals with tribal powers over nonmembers. The previous post presented the Black Letter and Comments from § 34, Civil Regulatory and Adjudicatory Authority over Nonmembers.
Tribal Powers over Nonmembers – Part 1
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Apr 17, 2018 | American Indian Law
In the American Indian Law project draft that will be presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting, two Sections deal with tribal powers over nonmembers – § 34, Civil Regulatory and Adjudicatory Authority over Nonmembers and § 35, Tribal-Court Exhaustion Rule. This is the first of two posts that present the Black Letter and Comments from the draft.
Tribal Entities and Sovereign Immunity
by Kaighn Smith, Jr. | Mar 12, 2018 | American Indian Law
Reporter Kaighn Smith Jr. discusses the complex topic of Tribal Entities and Sovereign Immunity in the video below.