Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Term in Title or Summary |
Sydney Groll |
COMMUNITIES AS CARETAKERS: THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT AS AN ANTIRACIST FRAMEWORK FOR ALL CHILD WELFARE CASES |
19 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 279 (Spring, 2022) |
Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people. --Ibram X. Kendi The child welfare system is racist. As with all systems in the United... |
2022 |
Yes |
Josh Gupta-Kagan |
CONFRONTING INDETERMINACY AND BIAS IN CHILD PROTECTION LAW |
33 Stanfor Law and Policy Review 217 (September, 2022) |
The child protection legal system faces strong and growing demands for change following at least two critiques. First, child protection law is substantively indeterminate; it does not precisely prescribe when state agencies can intervene in family life and what that intervention should entail, thus granting wide discretion to child protection... |
2022 |
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Tim Eigo |
CULTURE, DENIAL, JUSTICE |
58-AUG Arizona Attorney 4 (July/August, 2022) |
Once again, leaders of the State Bar Indian Law Section are making us at the magazine look absolutely prophetic. The issue you hold in your hand or scroll through online took almost a year to put together. It started with deep thinking by Indian Law practitioners, followed by a call for content, consideration of submissions, hard choices, thorough... |
2022 |
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Janice Beller |
DEFENDING THE GOLD STANDARD: AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES FIGHT TO SAVE THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
65-FEB Advocate 16 (February, 2022) |
While most folks rush in and out of their local post office, indifferently dropping off or picking up mail on their way to somewhere else, Malissa Poog remembers the Blackfoot Post Office with an entirely different set of feelings. Melissa, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, fondly remembers often visiting the post office with her mother as a... |
2022 |
Yes |
Gabriel J. Chin |
DRED SCOTT AND ASIAN AMERICANS |
24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 633 (June, 2022) |
Chief Justice Taney's 1857 opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford is justly infamous for its holdings that African Americans could never be citizens, that Congress was powerless to prohibit slavery in the territories, and for its proclamation that persons of African ancestry had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. For all of the... |
2022 |
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Ann Laquer Estin |
EQUAL PROTECTION AND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: STATES, TRIBAL NATIONS, AND FAMILY LAW |
35 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 201 (2022) |
The complex legal relationship between states, the United States, and Native nations can produce serious confusion in family law. Our system of federal Indian law, developed over several centuries, recognizes tribal sovereignty and defines the scope of state power with respect to federally-recognized Indian lands and communities. For the most part,... |
2022 |
Yes |
Cassondra M. Church |
EXPOSED: HOW HIGH-PROFILE LITIGATION IMPACTS INDIAN CHILDREN'S PRIVACY |
69-APR Federal Lawyer 26 (March/April, 2022) |
I reminisced about the memories that were frozen within each photo on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Each photograph was neatly kept in a large leatherbound photo album, beginning with a blurry photo of an ultrasound and ending with a photo of my high school graduation. As I flipped through the weathered pages, I remember thinking how impressive it was... |
2022 |
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Sadie Hart |
FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: THE AMERICAN INDIAN FOSTER CARE TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION PIPELINE AND THE NEED FOR EXPANDED AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES IN MINNESOTA |
15 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter/Spring, 2021-2022) |
Following the discovery of hundreds of children's bodies at residential schools in Canada, United States Interior Secretary Deb Haaland called for an investigation into the federal government's oversight of American Indian boarding schools. This call highlights a growing awareness of the United States' legacy of violence against American Indians.... |
2022 |
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Courtney G. Joslin , Catherine Sakimura |
FRACTURED FAMILIES: LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM |
13 California Law Review Online 78 (November, 2022) |
In February 2022, the Texas Governor and the Texas Attorney General declared that parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children should be investigated for child abuse. These declarations expressly authorize the surveillance of, intervention in, and possible destruction of LGBTQ families. Discussions of these developments suggest that... |
2022 |
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Victoria Roman |
FROM APOLOGY TO ACTION: A COMMENT ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA |
37 Maryland Journal of International Law 122 (2022) |
On September 30, 2021, National Day of Remembrance for Native Americans, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Native American Caucus reintroduced The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) first introduced... |
2022 |
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Charisa Smith |
FROM EMPATHY GAP TO REPARATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF CAREGIVING, CRIMINALIZATION, AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT |
90 Fordham Law Review 2621 (May, 2022) |
America's legacy of violent settler colonialism and racial capitalism reveals a misunderstood and neglected civil rights concern: the forced separation of families of color and unwarranted state intrusion upon caregiving through criminalization and surveillance. The War on Drugs, the Opioid Crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic are a few examples... |
2022 |
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N. Lauryn Boston |
HON. ALLIE GREENLEAF MALDONADO |
69-APR Federal Lawyer 16 (March/April, 2022) |
The reservation lands of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB Tribe) lie along the picturesque northern shores of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, where great white pine, red oak, and colorful sugar maple dominate the landscape of a region once called by the native Odawa the land of the crooked tree. It is here that the Hon. Allie... |
2022 |
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Tara Hubbard , Fred Urbina |
ICWA--THE GOLD STANDARD |
58-AUG Arizona Attorney 32 (July/August, 2022) |
In its next term, the Supreme Court of the United States has the important task of deciding the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Haaland, Sec. of Interior, et al. v. Brackeen, Chad E., et al. This case started in the Northern District of Texas when several non-Native prospective adoptive placements brought suit, alleging... |
2022 |
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Chris Gottlieb |
IMPROVING RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE IN CHILD ABUSE CASES: A STEP TOWARD RACIAL JUSTICE |
25 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 411 (Spring, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 412 II. Prosecution of Civil Child Abuse: Demographics and Res Ipsa Loquitur Doctrine. 415 III. Spreading the Blame. 418 IV. Unprincipled Use of Res Ipsa Loquitur Doctrine in Child Abuse Cases: New York Example. 420 V. Principled Use of Res Ipsa Loquitur in the Realm of Child Abuse. 429 VI. Holding Partners... |
2022 |
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Mia Montoya Hammersley , Adriana M. Orman , Wouter Zwart |
INDIGENOUS ERASURE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
58-AUG Arizona Attorney 22 (July/August, 2022) |
Every year, millions of Indigenous students walk through our Nation's public schoolhouse gates to receive an education. Historically, however, public schools have served as a tool for the Americanization of the Indian or, put more bluntly, to Kill the Indian, Save the Man. The legacy of erasing Indigenous identity reverberates to this day.... |
2022 |
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Addie C. Rolnick |
INDIGENOUS SUBJECTS |
131 Yale Law Journal 2652 (June, 2022) |
This Article tells the story of how race jurisprudence has become the most intractable threat to Indigenous rights--and to collective rights more broadly. It examines legal challenges to Indigenous self-determination and land rights in the U.S. territories. It is one of a handful of articles to address these cases and the only one to do so through... |
2022 |
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Robin Valenzuela, Indiana University Bloomington |
INTERSTITIAL PRECARITY: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF THE TRANSNATIONAL CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM |
45 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 94 (May, 2022) |
This article examines a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Chicago's Mexican Consulate and the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS), which obliges DCFS to provide prompt consular notification after assuming protective custody of a Mexican or Mexican American minor. Developed in 2001, this bilateral agreement also enables... |
2022 |
Yes |
Genesis M. Agosto |
INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A LEGAL APPROACH |
100 Nebraska Law Review 995 (2022) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 995 II. Why Native Sterilization Matters. 997 A. Significance. 997 B. Contribution to Scholarship. 1001 III. Legal Context of Native Sterilization. 1002 A. Origins of Eugenic Laws in the United States. 1002 B. Infamous Eugenic Cases. 1003 C. Passage of Laws that Allowed Native Sterilizations. 1007 IV. The... |
2022 |
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Rebecca Tsosie |
JUSTICE AS HEALING: NATIVE NATIONS AND RECONCILIATION |
54 Arizona State Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2022) |
I am honored to give the Canby Lecture for 2020, and I thank Patty Ferguson-Bohnee and Kate Rosier for their leadership of the Indian Legal Program and for inviting me today. I'm delighted to return, even in a virtual space, to the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). This was my academic home for over twenty-two... |
2022 |
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Matthew L.M. Fletcher , Wenona T. Singel |
LAWYERING THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
120 Michigan Law Review 1755 (June, 2022) |
This Article describes how the statutory structure of child welfare laws enables lawyers and courts to exploit deep-seated stereotypes about American Indian people rooted in systemic racism to undermine the enforcement of the rights of Indian families and tribes. Even when Indian custodians and tribes are able to protect their rights in court,... |
2022 |
Yes |
Patrick Derocher |
MANIFESTING A BETTER DESTINY: INTEREST CONVERGENCE AND THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION |
24 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 511 (2021-2022) |
As debates continue over whether the United States should consider, let alone how it might implement, a reparations plan for the descendants of enslaved people, the conversation often proceeds without recognizing that this country has already administered a similar program: The Indian Claims Commission (ICC). However, the fact that the ICC has... |
2022 |
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Matthew L.M. Fletcher |
MUSKRAT TEXTUALISM |
116 Northwestern University Law Review 963 (2022) |
Abstract--The Supreme Court decision McGirt v. Oklahoma, confirming the boundaries of the Creek Reservation in Oklahoma, was a truly rare case in which the Court turned back arguments by federal and state governments in favor of American Indian and tribal interests. For more than a century, Oklahomans had assumed that the reservation had been... |
2022 |
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Simone Lieban Levine |
NOT A GIRL, NOT YET A WOMAN: THE LEGAL LIMBO OF BEING A PARENT BEFORE BECOMING AN ADULT |
37 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 75 (2022) |
Introduction. 76 I. The Reality of Underage Pregnancy. 80 A. Babies Having Babies: Blame, Shame, and Social Policy. 81 B. Putting It in Perspective: Statistics Related to Young Parenthood. 83 1. Social Outcomes for Young Parents and Their Children. 84 2. Birth Rates According to Age and Race. 85 3. Young Parenthood and Medical Care, Poverty, and... |
2022 |
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Shanna C. Knight |
OREGON'S NEW INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: HIGHLIGHTS FOR IDAHO PRACTITIONERS |
65-FEB Advocate 22 (February, 2022) |
As an Idaho practitioner, unless you represent a tribe, you might be wondering why you should care about Oregon's new Indian Child Welfare Act (ORICWA). After all, Idaho practitioners are already required to follow the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). If so, I would answer first that Oregon's new law demonstrates best practices that... |
2022 |
Yes |
Matthew L.M. Fletcher , Randall F. Khalil |
PREEMPTION, COMMANDEERING, AND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
2022 Wisconsin Law Review 1199 (2022) |
This year (2022), the Supreme Court agreed to review wide-ranging constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) brought by the State of Texas and three non-Indian foster families in the October 2022 Term. The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that certain provisions of ICWA violated the anti-commandeering principle implied in... |
2022 |
Yes |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Anthony V. Alfieri |
RACIAL TRAUMA IN CIVIL RIGHTS REPRESENTATION |
120 Michigan Law Review 1701 (June, 2022) |
Narratives of trauma told by clients and communities of color have inspired an increasing number of civil rights and antiracist lawyers and academics to call for more trauma-informed training for law students and lawyers. These advocates have argued not only for greater trauma-sensitive practices and trauma-centered interventions on behalf of... |
2022 |
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Chris Gottlieb |
REMEMBERING WHO FOSTER CARE IS FOR: PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN FULTON v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA |
44 Cardozo Law Review 1 (October, 2022) |
The Supreme Court's opinion in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which held that a Catholic foster care agency could refuse to accept gay foster parents, and virtually all commentary on the case, are flawed by a profound misunderstanding of key aspects of the foster care system. The case's role in the broader culture war between religious rights... |
2022 |
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Whitney Saunders |
RESISTING INDIGENOUS ERASURE IN RHODE ISLAND: THE NEED FOR COMPULSORY NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY IN RHODE ISLAND SCHOOLS |
27 Roger Williams University Law Review 379 (Spring, 2022) |
Before we begin, I want to take a moment to reflect on the lands on which we reside. We are coming from many places, physically and remotely, and we want to acknowledge the ancestral homelands and traditional territories of Indigenous and Native peoples who have been here since time immemorial and to recognize that we must continue to build our... |
2022 |
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Bill Piatt |
RESPECTING THE IDENTITY AND DIGNITY OF ALL INDIGENOUS AMERICANS |
6 Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 83 (2021-2022) |
The United States government attempted to eliminate Native Americans through outright physical extermination and later by the eradication of Indian identity through a boarding school system and other paper genocide mechanisms. One of those mechanisms is the recognition of some Natives but not the majority, including those who ancestors were... |
2022 |
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Sara E. Hill |
RESTORING OKLAHOMA: JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW POST-MCGIRT |
57 Tulsa Law Review 553 (Spring, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 554 II. Criminal Jurisdiction in a Post-McGirt World: The Creation of Modern Criminal Jurisdictional Rules in Indian Country. 558 A. Evolution of Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country. 559 III. The Post-McGirt Toolkit: Jurisdictional Problem-solving in Indian Country. 565 A. Public Law 280. 565 B. Cross-deputation Agreements. 567... |
2022 |
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David H. Moore , Michalyn Steele |
REVITALIZING TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY IN TREATYMAKING |
97 New York University Law Review 137 (April, 2022) |
In the current model of federal-Indian relations, the United States claims a plenary legislative power, as putative guardian, to regulate Indian tribes. Under this model, tribes are essentially wards in a state of pupilage. But the federal-tribal relationship was not always so. Originally, the federal government embraced, even promoted, a more... |
2022 |
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Keila Mayberry |
SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE FOR AUSTRALIA'S STOLEN GENERATIONS |
22 Chicago Journal of International Law 661 (Winter, 2022) |
Until the early 1970s, Australian federal and state government agencies forcibly removed tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and placed them up for adoption or in group homes and church missions. These children are known as the Stolen Generations. Domestic remedies have proven insufficient in... |
2022 |
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The Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, February 10, 2022 |
SPRING 2022 SYMPOSIUM TRANSCRIPT |
19 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 425 (Spring, 2022) |
On February 10, 2022, the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy hosted the Reforming and Restructuring Child Welfare Law in New Jersey and Abroad Symposium. Speakers included moderator Randi Mandelbaum, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School and Annamay Sheppard Scholar; Sydney Groll, Independence Foundation Public... |
2022 |
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Angelique EagleWoman, Wambdi A. Was'teWinyan, Dominic J. Terry, Lani Petrulo., Dr. Gavin Clarkson, Angela Levasseur, Leah R. Sixkiller, Jack Rice |
STORYTELLING AND TRUTH-TELLING: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN LAW SCHOOLS |
48 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 704 (May, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 705 II. Becoming a Native Lawyer. 710 A. Ya'at'eeh!. 710 B. Don't Be A Victim of Your Environment. 710 C. Work Hard, and Never Give Up. 711 D. The Scenic Route. 711 E. So Close, Yet So Far. 712 F. The Bar Exam Does Not Define You!. 713 G. Ya'at'eeh, My Name is Dominic Terry. 713 III. Barred: A Personal Reflection on the Native... |
2022 |
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Deirdre M. Smith |
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS A PRIVATE REMEDY: RATIONALES, REALITIES, AND ALTERNATIVES |
72 Syracuse Law Review 1173 (2022) |
Introduction. 1174 I. Defining Private Termination of Parental Rights. 1178 A. Defining Parental Rights. 1178 B. Defining Termination of Parental Rights. 1182 C. Distinguishing Public Versus Private Termination of Parental Rights. 1185 II. The Contexts in which a Parent's Rights Can be Terminated Without Direct State Involvement. 1190 A.... |
2022 |
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Barbara Fedders |
THE ANTI-PARENT JUVENILE COURT |
69 UCLA Law Review 746 (May, 2022) |
This Article identifies and analyzes features of the juvenile delinquency court that harm the people on whom children most heavily depend: their parents. By negatively affecting a child's family--creating financial stress, undermining a parent's central role in rearing her child, and damaging the parent-child bond--these parent-harming features... |
2022 |
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Bethany Sullivan, Jennifer Turner |
THE CONTINUED IMPACT OF CARCIERI ON THE RESTORATION OF TRIBAL HOMELANDS: IN NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND |
27 Roger Williams University Law Review 322 (Spring, 2022) |
In 2009, the United States Supreme Court decided Carcieri v. Salazar, a case involving the Department of the Interior's (the Department or Interior) authority under section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) to acquire land into trust for the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Prior to the Supreme Court's decision, Interior had long interpreted the... |
2022 |
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Timothy Sandefur |
THE FEDERALISM PROBLEMS WITH THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
26 Texas Review of Law and Politics 429 (Spring, 2022) |
Author's Note. 430 Introduction. 430 I. What ICWA Does. 431 II. ICWA Exceeds the Commerce Clause. 435 A. The One and Only Commerce Clause. 435 B. The Non-textual Plenary Power. 437 C. Even Under the Treaty Power, ICWA Would Be Unconstitutional. 448 III. ICWA Violates the Anti-commandeering Principle. 453 A. The Anti-commandeering Principle. 453... |
2022 |
Yes |
Adam Crepelle |
THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CRIME IN INDIAN COUNTRY |
110 Georgetown Law Journal 569 (March, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 569 I. Crime in Indian Country. 576 II. Tribal Sovereignty and Criminal Justice. 579 III. The Economics of Crime. 586 IV. The Law and Economics of Crime in Indian Country. 589 V. Solutions. 601 a. jurisdictional fix. 603 b. more cops. 606 c. improve tribal economies. 609 Conclusion. 611 |
2022 |
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Robert G. Natelson |
THE ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE INDIAN COMMERCE CLAUSE: AN UPDATE |
23 Federalist Society Review 209 (########) |
The Congress shall have Power . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes. C1-2Table of Contents I. Recent and Pending Litigation. 211 II. Previous Scholarship. 212 III. Goals of this Article. 213 IV. Some Principles of Originalist Analysis. 214 V. The Constitutional Scheme: Separation of... |
2022 |
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Kace Rodwell , Michael Colbert Smith , Stephanie Hudson |
TRIBUTES TO STEVE HAGER |
46 American Indian Law Review 337 (2022) |
I first met Steve Hager at Sovereignty Symposium when he was presenting on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) for the Juvenile Law panel. I was just a 1L law student then, inspired by his passion for advocating for Tribal families and enforcing laws enacted to protect them. I knew then that I wanted to work alongside Steve and would later get that... |
2022 |
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The Honorable Raquel Montoya-Lewis |
WHY OUR STORIES MATTER: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE RESTATEMENT FROM THE STATE BENCH |
97 Washington Law Review 713 (October, 2022) |
34TH ANNUAL INDIAN LAW SYMPOSIUM RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS APRIL 2, 2022 I'm really thrilled and honored to be able to speak to all of you today. I did kind of come and go yesterday throughout the presentations and was really sort of star-struck by the incredible speakers that you have already heard from over the last day, and was... |
2022 |
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Roopa Bala Singh |
YOGA AS PROPERTY: A CENTURY OF UNITED STATES YOGA COPYRIGHTS, 1937-2021 |
99 Denver Law Review 725 (Summer, 2022) |
Public debate on yoga as property fixates on whether yoga should be owned, asking if yoga can be Indian property. Framed as such, the public discourse obscures a century-long, ravenous arc of yoga ownership in the United States, accumulated by whiteness, beginning in the early twentieth century. What do the stories of yoga in American law tell us... |
2022 |
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Hannah Duncan |
YOUTH ALWAYS MATTERS: REPLACING EIGHTH AMENDMENT PSEUDOSCIENCE WITH AN AGE-BASED BAN ON JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE |
131 Yale Law Journal 1936 (April, 2022) |
The Supreme Court has placed restrictions on courts' ability to impose life-with-out-parole sentences on juveniles. Most recently, Jones v. Mississippi underscored how existing Eighth Amendment protections fail to extend categorical protection to all juveniles. Tracing the history of intrachildhood classifications, this Note argues that Jones's... |
2022 |
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Subini Ancy Annamma , Jamelia Morgan |
YOUTH INCARCERATION AND ABOLITION |
45 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 471 (2022) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the dangers of the juvenile legal system; this should make it harder to look away from the societal inequities that are exacerbated by youth incarceration. Indeed, the current moment, including the unprecedented nationwide protests in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in summer 2020, has... |
2022 |
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Maci Burke |
A CALL TO CONGRESS: A CONSTITUTIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT IS NOT A FLAWLESS INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
39 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 191 (Winter, 2021) |
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), to regulate the removal and placement of Indian children in foster care, the termination of parental rights, preadoptive placement, and adoptive placement. The ICWA was enacted to address rising concerns over abusive child welfare practices that resulted in the separation of large... |
2021 |
Yes |
Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely , Stacy L. Leeds |
A FAMILIAR CROSSROADS: MCGIRT v. OKLAHOMA AND THE FUTURE OF THE FEDERAL INDIAN LAW CANON |
51 New Mexico Law Review 300 (Summer, 2021) |
Federal Indian law forms part of the bedrock of American jurisprudence. Indeed, critical parts of the pre-civil war constitutional canon were defined in Federal Indian law cases that simultaneously provided legal justification for American westward expansion onto unceded Indian lands. As a result, Federal Indian law makes up an inextricable part of... |
2021 |
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Sara L. Ochs |
A NATIONAL TRUTH COMMISSION FOR NATIVE AMERICANS |
36 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 1 (Spring, 2021) |
Native Americans have endured centuries of genocide. What began as a systemic attempt by European colonialists to decimate the indigenous population subsequently evolved into more subtle, devastating acts intended to destroy indigenous culture. Today, Native Americans remain the subject of ongoing discrimination and human rights abuses, especially... |
2021 |
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April Olson |
A SEAT AT THE TABLE: TRIBAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN OUT-OF-STATE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT CASES |
68-APR Federal Lawyer 38 (March/April, 2021) |
They made me stand. The small courtroom was packed with the usual parties in an Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) case: attorneys and social workers and a few observers who took up all the remaining seats. I stood against a wall while we waited for the judge to begin oral argument on my motion. After the judge called on me, I expected someone would... |
2021 |
Yes |
Lisa Kelly |
ABOLITION OR REFORM: CONFRONTING THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN "CHILD WELFARE" AND THE CARCERAL STATE |
17 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 255 (June, 2021) |
The child welfare system and the carceral state are engaged in a symbiotic relationship that shares many of the same hallmarks of surveillance, violence, and control of Black people. Just as police have been shown to inflict violence on Black people in the name of community safety, so too child welfare inflicts deep and lasting harms,... |
2021 |
Yes |