@tannerallread.bsky.social's extraordinarily impressive article, "Indigenous Constitutionalism," has arrived!
"Indigenous constitutionalism as a distinct constitutional practice through which Native nations claim and exercise self-governance"
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Thanks so much for your kind words, Gautham!!
Me holding a copy of a book that I wrote with Daphna Renan! Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!!
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Congrats, Niko! Looking forward to reading!
Well we can at least agree that sauropods are superior!
The correct answer is clearly Brachiosaurus 🦕 Will stand proudly with the 3% of people who love dinosaurs and know what they’re talking about
Thanks!!
Thank you!!
I've read and cited in my book everything Tanner has ever written. Will read his new piece with interest because it's get federalism + sovereignty written all over it.
Congratulations, Tanner! cc @jacobtlevy.bsky.social @philiprocco.bsky.social William Meyers @gracemallon.bsky.social
So excited to see this article in print!! 🎉 Tanner's work is always terrific, but this piece is especially good in challenging us to understand tribal constitutions on their own terms while also pressing on what Indigenous constitutionalism can tell us about American constitutionalism more broadly.
Thanks, Rachel!! ☺️
Thanks, Daniel!!
Thank you, Anna!! So grateful for your continued engagement with and support of my scholarship!
I hope so! Or maybe even a series of books, with the initial one focusing on the first Choctaw and Cherokee constitutions.
Will be a few years though 😅
Thank you!! And congrats to you too! Very cool that our pieces are in the same volume
proud of what I got to accomplish through this piece and for the small part I’ve gotten to play in bringing Native nations’ resiliency, sovereignty, and creativity to light. Happy reading!
scholars, historians, and Indian Country leaders, and thinking about what it would mean to take tribal constitutional law seriously. And I have way too many people to thank for their contributions to this piece (through workshops, one-on-one convos, and the entire job market process), but I’m very…
The article is long and packed full of things, but I’m hoping that this serves as the foundation for a career’s worth of research and scholarship and inspires others to pay attention to Native nations’ constitutions. It’s the culmination of years of research in archives, discussions with legal…
American constitutionalism are. Ultimately, I argue that tribal constitutions serve as a prism that refracts a range of possibilities for what constitutions can look like and be in the U.S. and in a post-colonial global legal order.
But I also show how this history and bringing together the diversity of constitutional designs and purposes across Indian Country makes us rethink Native peoples’ impact on federal Indian law doctrine, what constitutions deserve attention in U.S. history, and what the standard features of…
The heart of the article is uncovering the 200-year history of written tribal constitutions and how Native nations have used these foundational documents to continually assert their sovereignty, construct hybrid legal orders, and resist U.S. colonialism.
In this piece, I point out how tribal constitutions have been overlooked in scholarship on American constitutional law and history, and I construct the concept of “Indigenous constitutionalism” to bring together the rich constitutional history and theories of Native nations in the U.S.
Honestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵
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What Sotomayor should have been in a position to do is respond, “Rogers?! The Dred Scott of federal Indian law?! You’re citing *that* at me?!”
This is a problem! No one appears to have noticed this.
Book cover for Rachel A. Shelden, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History
Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉
Already knew this was going to be an amazing book, but the cover is 🔥🔥🔥 can’t wait to have my hands on it!
It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.
The Choctaw know how to spot vampires
Congratulations, Noah!! So well deserved! 🎉🎉🎉
