Robert N. Clinton
"Occasional musings on law, politics, and current events by an eclectic legal mind."
Author: Robert N. Clinton is a law professor at Arizona State University and also contributes to For the Seventh Generation Blog and Indian Legal Program Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Law Schools • Tribal Law/Courts • International • Australia • Arizona State University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Robert N. Clinton
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Code of Indian Offenses
For years scholars have described the Code of Indian Offenses, first adopted by the federal government in 1883, as a reservation criminal code designed to cover lesser misdemeanors. The Code of Indian Offenses helped create…
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IGRA 20th Anniversary Conference — October 16-17, 2008
The Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, American Indian Policy Institute at ASU, American Indian Law Center, Inc., Native Nations Law and Policy Center at…
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Minor Correction to Ward Churchill Report
The following correction has just been posted on the Inside Higher Education website. The original can be viewed at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/09/qt: The members of the investigative committee that explored allegations of research misconduct against Ward Churchill…
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Race, Citizenship, and the Cherokee Nation
American racism has deep roots and persistent effects. Its most recent manifestation occurred when an overwhelming majority (76%) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma voted to amend their new tribal constitution to require for the…
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Ward Churchill Report
A large portion of my activities during the spring 2006 semester were taken up serving as one of two outside members on the University of Colorado Investigatory Committee Regarding Allegations of Research Misconduct by Ward…
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Indigenous Treaties: A Comparative New Zealand/United States Perspective
Today, I delivered a talk entitled Indigeneous Treaties: A Comparative New Zealand/United States Peespective in which I jusxtaposed the treatment of the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 with the Maori in New Zealand with the…
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Politics, The Gross National Product & National Identity
I was recently reading Mark Kurlansky’s excellent popular history 1968: The Year that Rocked the World and came across the following portion of a speech delivered in 1968 as apart of Robert F. Kennedy’s ill-fated…
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Clinton’s Lore
This article is taken form the weekly issue of the New Zealand Listener published October 30-November 5 2004 Vol 196 No 3364 Clinton’s Lore by Steven Price When tribes no longer see themselves as victims,…
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Equality & Indians
While visiting on sabbatical at Wellington University Victoria and discussing with others the debates over Maori rights, the question of the liberal paradigm of equal treatment of citizens within a state frequently arose. This problem…
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Affirmative Action and the University of Michgian Cases (Drafted Before Decisions)
Affirmative Action, History & Judicial Social Engineering Copyright 2003, Robert N. Clinton A little over 185 years ago, Federal Treaty Commissioners, led by Lewis Cass, met at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami…