Indian Law

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THE RULE OF CAPTURE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Summary of Contents: Origin of the Reserved Rights Clauses in Pacific Northwestern Indian Treaties • The Untold Story: How a “Captured” Human Helped Open the West in the Voyage of Discovery • Religious Understandings of wilderness and the Legal Protections of the Wilderness Act • Water Follies • Property and Pioneers: The Economics of Capture • Today’s Economics of Capture • Ferae Naturae: Wildlife and State Ownership • Western Grazing: The Capture of Ground, Grass, and Government • Questioning the Rule of Capture Metaphor for Nineteenth Century Public Land Law: A Look at R.S. 2477 • The Rule of Capture – An Oil and Gas Perspective • Reverse Engineering and the Rule of Capture: Some Examples from Water and Minerals.
April 7-8, 2005
MCLE: 11.25 G
Book Only (167 pp):$55
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THE LEGACY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION IN INDIAN LAW
Summary of Contents: Federal-Indian Relations • Retracing the Discovery Doctrine, Aboriginal Title, Tribal Sovereignty, and Their Significance to Treaty-Making and Modern Natural Resources Policy in Indian Country • Lewis and Clark, “Discovery,” and the Indian Tribes • The Legacy of Allotment • The Lingering Legal Legacy: The Impact of Native Jurisprudence on Anglo-American Law and Vice Versa • Intercultural Encounters in the “Garden of Good and Evil”: An Essay on Native/European Law and Jurisprudence and the Role of Memory and Place • Federalism and Indian Law.
May 5-6, 2004
MCLE: 7.5 G
Book Only (234 pp): $55
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(PS) Practical Skills
(G/PS) General or Practical Skills
(E) Ethics
(EB) Elimination of Bias (Diversity)
(CA) Child Abuse

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