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...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Kaighn Smith, Jr., Wenona T. Singel and Lauren Klosinski | March 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.Economic Development in Indian Country:...
Lauren Klosinski | January 22, 2020 | American Indian Law
In “A 41-year-old law designed to protect Native American families is under attack. Here’s what that means for Colorado’s tribes,” The Denver Post takes a look at the potential effect of recent rulings on the Indian Child Welfare Act to Colorado’s Indian...
The Indigenous Law & Policy Center | August 15, 2019 | American Indian Law
This post originally appeared on Turtle Talk on August 9, 2019.The Fifth Circuit overturned the Northern District of Texas today with strong language supporting ICWA. The Court found that the plaintiffs did have standing, but found against them on all other counts....