American Indian Law Codes: Pragmatic Law and Tribal Identity

Railroads and American Law

Emergency Declarations and Tribes: Mechanisms under Tribal and Federal Law.

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 33 I. TRIBAL DECLARATIONS .......................................................................... 35 II. STAFFORD ACT DECLARATION REQUESTS ............................................. 39 A. Tribal Request for a Stafford Act Declaration ............................... 39 B. State Request...

Law and identity in spatial contests

Law has had a traditional reference to land, conceived as territory, in the notion of a jurisdiction, where the law of the land applies equally to all individuals. Recent critiques of this view have suggested that a plurality of laws may apply in particular places. How this spatial pluralism impacts on dominant views of law is considered through two instances in which law has interacted with co...

Exclusion and the Identity of Law

Law is traditionally analysed as a positive phenomenon, meaning that it is constructed and laid down by the institutions within a given society and that it has an empirical dimension. The concept of positive law, or of rules and doctrines which have an affirmative empirical existence and which are posited by a lawmaking institution, reflects this preoccupation with the substance and reality of ...

5 American law ( United States ) *

1 The role of law in the United States Understanding US law is impossible without first understanding the role law plays both in its political system and in the consciousness of its citizens. Law is ubiquitous in general culture: literature, cinema, television (Raynaud and Zoller, 2001). On first impression, its status appears paradoxical. On the one hand, there is an almost mystical faith in t...