Category: Volume 33

  Introduction It was April 2017 when a gas explosion destroyed a home in Firestone, Colorado and killed two people—brothers-in-law Mark Martinez and Joey Irwin.[2] The explosion was caused by a severed gas line, likely cut when the home was built years earlier.[3] In the investigation that followed, it was determined that non-odorous gas had…

Introduction Global land trade has become a subversive form of neocolonialism that obscures environmental exploitation and human rights abuses. It involves the importation and exportation of land in the international market through purchase or lease. Most of the land that is foreignized through this process is in the Global South.[2] Since the beginning of the…

One of the bedrock principles of federal Indian law is a centuries-old understanding that the tribes, as “domestic dependent nations,” have a “government-to-government” relationship with the federal government, which has a trust obligation concerning the tribes, their sovereignty, and their cultural resources. Although this relationship was first judicially articulated in the nineteenth century, it was…