Here:
Oral Tradition And The Kennewick Man,
Emergency Declarations and Tribes: Mechanisms under Tribal and Federal Law
24 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 33 (2015)
Gregory Sunshine and Aila Hoss
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Date Posted: October 04, 2016
Steven Alagna has published this interesting and important piece in Washington University Law Review.
The Public Land & Resources Law Review is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the upcoming issue, our 38th volume. Helmed by students at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana, the Public Land & Resources Law Review serves as a vital resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to public land, natural resources, environmental, and federal Indian law for practitioners and scholars across the country. The Public Land and Resources Law Review accepts articles and abstracts for consideration from students, practitioners, and law school faculty members.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact Maresa Jenson, Publication Editor, at maresa.jenson@umconnect.umt.edu, by February 15, 2017. Articles will be considered on a rolling basis. We look forward to working with you to publish your scholarship.
Sincerely,
Editors of the Public Land & Resources Law Review
Here is “A tension as old as the country: Legal scholars put focus on Native American rights,”published in Harvard Law Today. Also in the Harvard Gazette.
Kirsten Matoy Carlson has posted “Why Lobby Congress? Constitutive and Instrumental Influences on Indian Groups’ Strategies for Federal Recognition, 1977-2012” on SSRN. This paper is highly recommended.
Here is the abstract:
When and why do marginalized groups chose a particular institutional venue when pursuing their legal claims? This article combines theoretical and methodological insights from sociolegal and interest group studies to investigate why non-federally recognized Indian groups used legislative strategies for federal recognition from 1977 to 2012. It finds Indian groups employed legislative strategies both to increase their chances of success and for constitutive purposes, including educating the public and leveraging institutional tensions. The article’s emphasis on constitutive and instrumental motivations provides a more nuanced approach to understanding marginalized groups’ venue decisions.
Here.
This case addresses the same issue brought up by Pro-Football v. Blackhorse (section 2(a) of the Lanham Act), which is currently in the 4th Circuit. Pro-Football, Inc. petitioned the Court to skip the 4th Circuit and be joined to the Tam v. Lee case if it was granted here. There is no decision on that at this time.
Pro-Football v. Blackhorse coverage here.
Tam v. Lee coverage here.
Story from Law360 here.
Thanks to SD for the heads up.
From SSRN:
Unwinding Non-Native Control over Native America’s Past: A Statistical Analysis of the Decisions to Return Native American Human Remains and Funerary Objects under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1992–2013
University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 38, 2016
Jason C. Roberts
U.S. Department of State
Date Posted: September 21, 2016
Returning to the Tribal Environmental ‘Laboratory’: An Examination of Environmental Enforcement Techniques in Indian Country
Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner
University of Kansas – School of Law
Date Posted: September 20, 2016
The Great Sioux Nation V. The ‘Black Snake’: Native American Rights and the Keystone Xl Pipeline
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 67, 2016
Cindy Woods
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)
Date Posted: September 13, 2016
Traditional Problems: How Tribal Same-Sex Marriage Bans Threaten Indian Sovereignty
William Mitchell Law Review, Forthcoming
Marcia Anne Yablon-Zug
University of South Carolina School of Law
Download agenda here. Conference is in Massachusetts on October 13-14, 2016.
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