Скачать или смотреть Second Annual Indian Law & History Lecture (2022)

The second Annual Indian Law & History Lecture was presented virtually on Friday, November 18 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM.

The lecture explored the Doctrine of Discovery, a millennia-old legal principle, which forms the foundation for Western property law and was first espoused by the Pope as justification for the Christian Crusades. Following the Crusades, the Doctrine of Discovery was relied upon by various European nation-states as a legal justification for the colonization of the Americas.

In particular, this lecture featured Professor Rebecca Tsosie, of the University of Arizona Law School, and Professor Darren Ranco, of the University of Maine-Orono, who explored the underpinnings of the Doctrine of Discovery in American jurisprudence and offered reflections on how the doctrine was implemented or, rather, ignored in the place now known as the State of Maine. This lecture was moderated by Michael-Corey Hinton, Esq., of Drummond Woodsum.