Doing Business With American Indian Tribes
January 9-13, 2011 (11 am - 2 pm)
Room 339 - School of Law
Recommended Readings:
American Indian Law in a Nutshell (5th ed)
Topics and Required Readings:
- Mon, Jan 9: Tribal Sovereignty 101 - Power Point Slides for Class One
- The Legacy of Allotment by Professor Judith Royster (download full article at SSRN link provided)
- Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule, Joseph Kalt and Joe Singer
- Tues, Jan 10: Regulatory and Adjudicatory Jurisdiction - Power Point Slides for Class Two
- Continued discussion from Day 1 (same previously posted powerpoint slides)
- Montana v. United States (US S.Ct.)(required)
- Sovereign Immunity: Memphis Biofuels v. Chickasaw Nation (6th Cir) (recommended but not required)
- National Farmers Union v. Crow Tribe (US S. Ct.)(required)
- Recent Indian Country Payday Lending case (D.Ct. Colorado) (recommended but not required)
- Wed, Jan 11: Tribal Business Entities and Taxation - Power Point Slides for Class Three
- Regulation of Gaming Industry
- Tribal Business Structure Handbook by Atkinson and Niles on IRS.gov
- Selected IRS publications will be covered
- Refer back to Figure 1, page 32 of Kalt/Singer article from Day 1
- Thurs, Jan 12: Concurrent Regulation Inside Indian Country - Power Point Slides for Class Four Hipp Presentation and Power Point Slides for Class Four Leeds
- Agriculture and Food in Indian Country by guest speaker Janie Hipp, Sr. Advisor, Office of Tribal Affairs, USDA, Washington, DC (Additional reference materials: Federal Register Tribal Consultation Text, White House Consulation Memo and USDA Action Plan)
- Environmental Law
- Employment and Labor Law: DOI Letter on NLRB and recent Sag Chip NLRB case
- Fri, Jan 13: Opportunties and Challenges - Slides for Class Five Carey (PDF)
- Finance and Banking Issues by guest speaker Jeff Carey, Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
- Memo on Tribal Bonds
- An Introduction to Indian Tribal Finance
Grading Information:
A take-home exam will be destributed at the end of class on Friday constituting 100% of the course grade. You will have until noon on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to complete th exam. You may use your class notes and readings posted on this website in preparing your answers. It is not intended that the exam become a research project. You will be limited to referring to class content in arriving at your answers.