This is one of those articles that makes me feel like my scholarship is really "seen" and doing an important thing. 🥹🩷
The University of Chicago Law Review | The Return to Autochthonous Law
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Wohoo! And it’s about time…
The Oneida Nation endowed a chair for an Indian Law scholar at HLS and they’ve been trying to fill it for DECADES. It took the incredible badass that is Tanner to break down that door finally.
So proud and excited. This is a win for Indian Country and for the field!
I have a new short article out.
My take on the last 50 years of Federal Indian Policy and the strange crossroads we are at.
TLDR: Paternalism was bad. Reversing it--aka the fed. gov. incrementally giving up it's power--is hard. And it's not something Trump likes doing.
[Indians’] foremost plight is our transparency. People can tell just by looking at us what we want, what should be done to help us, how we feel, and what a ‘real’ Indian is really like . . . . In so m...
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
