Here are details. The highlights re: the writing competition are as follows:
Papers are due May 31, 2023, and must not exceed 20 pages (double-spaced)
Papers can relate to any legal/policy question re: “environmental, energy, or resources legal issues related to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, other Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples generally, and/or the field of Indian and tribal law.”
The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
Here is the fantastic amicus brief on behalf of tribes and tribal orgs written by April Youpee-Roll at Munger and Jason Searle and Beth Wright at NARF:
Here are the other briefs:
Protect the First Amicus Brief
Religious Liberty Scholars Amicus Briefs
Prior post here.
Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D. Ariz.):
This case is on remand after the parties agreed to the vacature of the district court’s dismissal of the suit.
Here is the complaint in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):
Here is the stipulation in Williams & Cochrane LLP v. Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Reservation (S.D. Cal.):
Prior post here.
Update. Here are recent pleadings from the parties on the substitution of parties that is interesting reading (not all the pleadings are available):
386 Rosette Parties Motion to Substitute [unavailable]
Here is the order in JLLJ Development LLC v. Kewadin Casinos Gaming Authority (Mich. Cir. Ct.):
Prior post here.
There was a lot of great American Indian law scholarship this past year. Here is a list of the papers focusing on American Indians and Indian tribes that were law-review length. Some really interesting things were excluded, like Greg Ablavsky’s posts defending his scholarship that had TONS of downloads but were not really law review articles, and lots of international material, etc. Here you go:
Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Aug 2022
Working Paper Series
Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Ann E. Tweedy, Sarah Deer and Stacy Leeds
UCLA School of Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law, University of South Dakota School of Law, University of Kansas and Arizona State University (ASU) – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 41, No. 1, Forthcoming, Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-047
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Working Paper Series
Michael Velchik and Jeffery Zhang
Harvard University and University of Michigan Law School
McGill Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 May 2022 Last Revised: 23 May 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Dalhousie University – Schulich School of Law
Boston University Law Review, Vol. 103, Forthcoming 2023
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Sep 2022
Working Paper Series
University of Idaho – College of Law
Michigan Law Review, Vol. 121, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 29 Nov 2022
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Continue readingThe Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has published a report titled, “Federal contracting’s expanding revenue role in Indian Country.”
Thanks to Elijah Romero,
Here:
Lower court materials here.
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