Tribal Courts and Tribal Law (Fed. Indian Law II) - Law 631B
| Instructor: Raymond D. Austin View Faculty Page |
| Email: rdaustin@email.arizona.edu |
| Units: 3 - Graded |
| Prerequisites: Federal Indian Law I (Law Students or AIS students) or AIS 584-Development of Federal Indian Law & Policy (required for AIS students and other graduate students), or permission of instructor. |
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| Overview: The course emphasis will be American Indian tribal governments, tribal courts, tribal peacemaking, tribal laws, and American Indian customary law, with a special focus on Navajo common law as a case study model. Ray Austin, instructor for the course, is a retired Associate Justice of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. |
| Materials: Required Texts: Ray Austin, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law, A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance (University of Minnesota Press, 2009); Marianne O. Nielsen and James W. Zion, Navajo Nation Peacemaking (University of Arizona Press, 2005) and materials to be assigned. Recommended Text (not required): Getches, Wilkinson and Williams, Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed) (students will read some cases from this text for in-class presentations). |
| Course Format: This will be a traditional law school course, with lecture, discussion, speakers, and in-class presentations. |
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| Type of Exam: Final paper or papers or final exam |
| Basis for grading: Final paper, papers, or examination, in-class presentations, and class participation. |
| Additional Comments: |
NativeNet Guidebooks IPLP students work in collaboration with IPLP faculty on a series of guidebooks published by NativeNet The guidebooks are designed to provide information to tribal leaders as they make policy decisions.