[nativestudies-l] Yale Law School Panel on Criminal Justice in Indian Country

[Jessica Koski]

*Criminal Justice in Indian Country: Current Practices, Challenges, and the
Promises of the Tribal Law and Order Act*
Fri., Feb. 18, 3:30-5 pm, YLS Room 120
Yale Law School Reb Law Conference

This panel will bring together practitioners from various areas of Indian
country to discuss how criminal law works—or fails to work—in in Indian
country. Issues particular to these regions pose challenges for the criminal
justice system: high rates of sexual abuse, remote locations, small
communities, language barriers, high prosecutorial declination rates,
conflicting state-federal-tribal criminal jurisdiction, and tribal
sovereignty. The panelists will talk about efforts to address these issues,
including the recently passed Tribal Law and Order Act. The Act provides
greater sentencing authority to tribal courts in certain cases; greater
incentives for cooperation between state, federal, and tribal governments;
and, in some states, concurrent state, federal, and tribal jurisdiction. The
panelists may also touch on broader issues including federalism and
sentencing.
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