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Fishable Waters, Catherine A. O'Neill
Fishable Waters, Catherine A. O'Neill
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This article discusses the implications of tribes' treaty-secured rights to take fish for current efforts to set water quality standards in Washington and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Among other things, this article considers the impact of ongoing treaty rights litigation, including the landmark ruling in the "culverts" case handed down by the Western District of Washington in March, 2013. Although this article focuses on agency decision making in the tribal context, it recounts a debate that has often been framed by arguments that are familiar from more general discussions of risk-based regulation. In fact, these generic arguments are often …
Rights, Resources And Rhetoric: Indigenous Peoples And The Inter-American Court, Tom Antkowiak
Rights, Resources And Rhetoric: Indigenous Peoples And The Inter-American Court, Tom Antkowiak
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In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down Sarayaku v. Ecuador, a crucial decision on indigenous rights. This article considers how the Sarayaku judgment impacts the Court’s case law on indigenous lands and resources, and evaluates that jurisprudence as a whole. Examining the cases, it becomes evident that the Tribunal now connects a number of key indigenous rights to the right to property, Article 21 of the American Convention on Human Rights. When traditional lands are involved, the right to property has become the Court’s structural basis for indigenous rights. For significant reasons, however, the right to property …
Supra Synopses, Ryan W. Dumm, Laura Turczanski
Supra Synopses, Ryan W. Dumm, Laura Turczanski
Seattle University Law Review SUpra
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