LibGuides: Native American Law: Scholarly Legal Articles

LegalTrac to Find Published Legal Articles (subscription, BLS Library)

Tool to find published legal articles: LegalTrac

Access LegalTrac on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.

Enter a search term, for example: Native Americans Northeast. Then, choose the Tiles view or topic Wheel view to narrow search results to documents containing an additional subject or term.

LegalTrac's subjects include: Federal tribal law, First Nations Peoples, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Native American children, Native American culture, Native American history, Native American land cessions, Native American land tenure, Native American rights, Native American rights activists, Native American women, Native American youth, Native North Americans, Native South Americans and Tribal sovereignty.
Click a subject like: Native Americans to view citations to articles or click a subdivision (example: Laws, regulations and rules). LegalTrac also provides links to related subjects.

Access IFLP on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.

IFLP provides English-language indexing of articles published in other countries' legal journals.

Useful options included in IFLP's search pull-down menu are: Country of Publication and Subject/Country Heading.
IFLP's subjects include: Indigenous peoples and Legal history.
BLS researchers might need to request legal articles cited in IFLP through the ILL (interlibrary loan) tab in SARA catalog.

Alaska Law Review @ Duke Law

American Indian Law Journal @ Seattle University School of Law

This journal states it "is a co-curricular journal at Seattle University School of Law that is dedicated to the development of Indian law education and advocacy."

American Indian Law Review @ University of Oklahoma College of Law

This journal states it "serves as a nationwide scholarly forum for analysis of developments in legal issues pertaining to Native Americans and indigenous peoples worldwide."
2023-2024 American Indian Law Review National Writing Competition Rules (deadline for receipt of competition entries: 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024)
American Indian Law Review Spring 2024 Symposium: in future, check here.

This journal states: "We promote Native scholarship, both student and faculty, and support Native scholars and voices. We partner with Native communities to publish writings that will bring attention to their specific situations and legal battles."
2024 Symposium: Red Rising: The Shifting Legal Landscape of Tribal Sovereignty (Feb. 8-9, 2024 at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center). The symposium hosts will be Profs. Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi) and Lauren van Schilfgaarde (Cochiti Pueblo), in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance, the Native Nations Law and Policy Center, and UCLA Law Review.
- Nov. 19, 2023: A Symposium Editor replied to a BLS librarian: "We are planning to both livestream and record the symposium. Please keep an eye out for future communications regarding the symposium to learn about accessing streams or recordings."
Note: UCLA American Indian Studies Center also publishes the open access periodical: American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

Tribal Law Journal @ University of New Mexico School of Law

This journal states it "provides native peoples, practitioners, and law students an opportunity to contribute their work to the discussion relating to internal indigenous law. Contributions include, but are not limited to, tribal court case comments, reflections on tribal systems, the development of tribal law, the value of tribal law, interviews, and teachings."
Tribal Law Journal 2023 Symposium: 200 Years Since Johnson v. M'Intosh: The Case’s Impact on Native Communities and Tribal Governments (date was: Nov. 9, 2023). BLS librarians are investigating whether researchers can register to access a recording of this virtual symposium.

Publicly Accessible Repositories that Include Preprints:

Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.
Use Advanced Search to find articles by subject, keywords in abstract, author and title.
- bepress uses subject: Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law

Is an open access repository of scholarly articles and other research. BrooklynWorks (Brooklyn Law School's scholarly repository) is part of this network. From the main page of Law Commons, view articles grouped by sub-discipline.
- Law Commons groups articles and other research under sub-discipline: Indigenous, Indian and Aboriginal Law Commons

SSRN (might require registration to access an article--registration is free)

Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters.
- SSRN uses keywords: Native American Law

Sources of published articles:

Google Scholar, bullet: Articles

If a BLS researcher does not plan to work on campus or in BLS housing: Before searching, implement the BLS proxy server instructions. Then, the BLS researcher will be able to access more full-text articles in Google Scholar search results.

Hein employee Lauren Zazzara wrote: "More than 25 serial titles reside within this subcollection, including the entire span of the Indian Law Reporter, which ran from 1974 to 2013."
Access this subscription HeinOnline database on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.

HeInOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).
Access these subscription HeinOnline databases on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.

Lexis+ tab: International includes: Canada > All Canada Law Reviews and Journals