Larry Nesper on Tribal-State Court Jurisdiction in Wisconsin

Larry Nesper has published “Ordering Legal Plurality: Allocating Jurisdiction in State and Tribal Courts in Wisconsin” in PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Here is the abstract:

This article examines how a Wisconsin statute passed in 2009 that authorized state court judges to transfer cases to American Indian tribal courts unfolded as a political and legal process that was both informed by and produced by fundamental conceptions of cultural difference. It calls specific attention to jurisprudential differences in the form of jury trials and peacemaking in figuring the differences between conceptions of tribal membership and state citizenship.