LAWS6610 · Law
Boston College Law School
This course will focus on the constitutional, statutory and jurisprudential rules that make up the field of Federal Indian Law. The course begins with the historical framework from which the rules were derived, then traces the development of the underlying legal doctrines that are prominent today, including tribal sovereignty, tribal jurisdiction, treaty rights, and state authority over tribal lands. The second half of the course focuses on subject-specific areas: hunting and fishing rights, reserved water rights, stewardship of natural resources, economic development (including tribal gaming and natural resource development), protection of tribal religious and cultural practices, and the laws related to cultural harms caused by mascots, theft of cultural belongings (including human remains), and cultural appropriation.
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4.7 / 5
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4.6 / 5
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4.6 / 5
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4.6 / 5
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Weekly effort
~3
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Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2021
1 section