Navajo courts and Navajo common law :

"The Navajo Nation court system is the largest tribal legal system in the world. Justice Raymond D. Austin considers the history and implications of how the Navajo Nation courts apply foundational Navajo doctrines to modern legal issues. In addition to detailed case studies, Justice Austin provides a broad view of tribal law, outlining how other indigenous peoples can draw on traditional precepts to control their own futures." -- Provided by publisher

Call Number: 
KF8228 .N3 A95 2009
Title Responsibility: 
Raymond D. Austin ; foreword by Robert A. Williams, Jr.
Author Information: 
Justice Raymond D. Austin is Diné (Navajo) from northeastern Arizona. He is the Distinguished Jurist in Residence for the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law. Justice Austin received a B.S. from Arizona State University in 1979, earned a law degree (J.D.) from the University of New Mexico Law School in 1983, and, received a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies (Law and Policy Concentration) from the University of Arizona in 2007. Robert A. Williams Jr. is an American lawyer who is a notable author and legal scholar in the field of federal Indian law, international law, indigenous peoples' rights, critical race and post-colonial theory.
Production Place: 
Minneapolis, MN :
Producer: 
University of Minnesota Press,
Production Date: 
c2009.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Navajo Nation
Reviews: 

Benally, Moroni. "Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance (review)." The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35 no. 3, 2011, p. 470-473. https://muse-jhu-edu.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/article/447058/pdf.

Lee, Lloyd L. "Reviewed Work: Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance by Raymond D. Austin." Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 2011, pp. 148–149. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/wicazosareview.26.1.0148#metadata_i....

Rosser, Ezra. "Displacing the Judiciary: Customary Law and the Threat of a Defensive Tribal Council: A Book Review of Raymond D. Austin, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance." American Indian Law Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 379-401. https://heinonline-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/HOL/Page?lname=&hand....

Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
7031348
Law Subject(s): 
Self-governance
Indigenous Law
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