Martin's "Cherokee Supreme Court"

 J. Matthew Martin, an Administrative Law Judge with the Social Security Administration who for over a decade served as Associate Judge of the Cherokee Court, the Tribal Court for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has published The Cherokee Supreme Court with Carolina Academic Press. The first...

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Green on the Three Commerce Powers

Christopher R. Green, University of Mississippi School of Law, has posted Tribes, Nations, States: Our Three Commerce Powers:This Article argues that one aspect of the power to regulate “Commerce with foreign Nations … and with the Indian Tribes” is broader than the power over “Commerce … among the several States.” If “Tribes” and “Nations” consist of people, but “States” of territory, then “Commerce...

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Berger on "McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Past, Present, and Future of Reservation Boundaries"

Bethany Berger (University of Connecticut School of Law) has posted "McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Past, Present, and Future of Reservation Boundaries," to be published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. Here's the abstract:“Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law.” So reads McGirt v. Oklahoma, the most important reservation...

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