The foundation of the modern corporation is built upon the separation of labor and capital. These entities were anathema to most Indigenous peoples when the Virginia Company was chartered in 1606 for the purpose of settling American lands. Over centuries […]
Professor Kirsten Dauphinais presented at the University of Nevada Law Vegas Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis symposium last September. Recently the Nevada Law Journal published her article titled Quintilian’s Curriculum. The journal includes in all, ten articles representing the work of ten scholars […]
The biggest casino in the United States — in fact, the biggest casino in the world — is the WinStar World Casino in Oklahoma, a tribal casino owned and operated by the Chickasaw Nation. America’s second largest casino is the Foxwoods […]
Cultivating Grit in Law Students Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich (North Dakota), Cultivating Grit in Law Students: Grit, Deliberate Practice, and the First-Year Law School Curriculum, 47 Cap. U. L. Rev. 341 (2019): What characteristics reliably predict success? Why is it that some individuals […]
Grand Forks is set to have a new city attorney. Shortly after Brandon Bochenski is sworn in as mayor on Tuesday, City Council members are scheduled to consider affirming Bochenski’s plan to make Dan Gaustad the city’s legal counsel. Bochenski asked Gaustad […]
Professor James M. Grijalva has recently had an article accepted by the Harvard Environmental Law Review for publication in the winter of 2020-21. The article, Ending the Interminable Gap in Indian Country Water Quality Protection, examines the 30-year history of […]
On April 22, 2020, University of North Dakota School of Law Professor Margaret Moore Jackson presented at High Plains Fair Housing Center’s 3rd Annual Fair Housing Conference. High Plains Fair Housing Center serves as North Dakota’s only nonprofit fair housing […]
Professor Grant Christensen, along with Melissa Tatum from the University of Arizona, have just had their most recent book published by Cambridge University Press. Reading American Indian Law: Foundational Principles builds on their original research looking at the impact of […]
By: Art Hughes, December 19, 2019 Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt (Cherokee Nation) believes a compact signed with 31 tribes in the state expires on January 1st and he wants to renegotiate the fees the tribes pay to the state. Tribes say […]
Original Story – NPR – Morning Edition, December 27, 2019 Four women from the nation’s second largest Indian reservation have turned to the federal court system after they were banished by tribal leadership last year. “It changed our lives,” Ute tribal member […]