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VAWA Now Covers LBGTs and Native Americans

Since passage of the original Violence Against Women Act in 1994, reported incidents of violence against women in the United States have decreased by an impressive two-thirds. Still, violence against women remains a...more

Religious Institutions Update: March 2013

In this Issue: - Key Cases - Court Upholds Permitting, Licensing and Zoning Regulation of Spiritual Counselors - Non-Liturgical Navy Chaplains Denied Injunctive Relief for Statistical Imbalance in...more

John Ruggie Gives Opening Address at U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights

On December 4 and 5, more than 1,000 participants from 85 countries gathered for the first U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. The Forum focused on “trends and challenges” in the implementation of...more

9th Circuit Affirms Judgment for Teck Alaska in Title VII Shareholder Preference Suit -Court validates ANCSA shareholder...

In Conitz v. Teck Alaska, a case involving shareholder preferences closely watched by ANCSA corporations and others, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a brief unpublished decision affirming the district...more

Are ANCSA Corporations subject to GINA?

In November 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final regulations governing Title II of the Genetic Information Nondisclosure Act (GINA) (Title II establishes GINA’s employment-related...more

ZAPU- Life from the belly of the beast

Jonah is the name given in the bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, about the 8th century BC. In the book of Jonah, he is ordered by God to go the city of Nineveh to prophesy against their wickedness that was...more

HOW TO HELP THE HOMELESS WITHOUT JUST GIVING THEM MONEY

In 2007, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimated that 3.5 million people in America (1.35 million of them children), were likely to experience homelessness in a given year. While difficult to measure,...more

California Lawyer’s analysis of Indian Law, Tribal Law and Native American Law

Perhaps there is no area of law in California where there are so few knowledgeable attorneys than in the area of Tribal Law and Native American Law. Perhaps in no area of law are there so few resources for lawyers to even...more

Ruling on Indian money tries to put price on broken trust

Decades of litigation succeeds in holding Federal government responsible for mishandling of tribal members' property....more

State of Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Brief Amicus Curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation in Support of Petitioners (Petition for Certiorari)

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Slave Artists as Powerful Reality Creators: Taking Responsibility and Rejecting Race Consciousness

This article critiques the race conscious thinking inherent in Critical Race Theory ("CRT") and offers an alternative to structuralism and determinism. It reviews the colonial origins of race consciousness, and argues that...more

Geopolitics & Women's Bodies from the Perspective of the South Asian Diaspora

The 1947 Indian Partition ("Partition") endures as a decisive moment in world history, not only for its significance in the emergency of India and Pakistan, but also for its impact on the legal rights of women. Before...more

Turning a Blind Eye: the Tragedy of Convenient Human Rights

“One death is a tragedy; one million, a statistic.” These were the words of Joseph Stalin, who, as the leader of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, was responsible for the killing of millions upon millions of Russian...more