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.
Wenona T. Singel Posts
Tribal Economic Development – Indian Gaming
by Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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.
American Indian Law: When Two Sovereigns Collide
by Wenona T. Singel | Mar 19, 2019 | American Indian Law
This episode of Reasonably Speaking passes the microphone to American Indian Law experts Matthew Fletcher and Wenona Singel for a serious look at tribal sovereignty, voting rights, violence against native women, and much more.
Tribal Powers over Nonmembers – Part 2
by Wenona T. Singel | 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 Wenona T. Singel | 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.