Good Law | Bad Law - OH- KLAHOMA!: A Conversation w/ Ezra Rosser

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Who really owns Oklahoma? That’s right . . . .Oklahoma!

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Ezra Rosser, of American University Washington College of Law, to further this show’s discussion on reparations. Today, Aaron and Ezra are specifically talking about what reparations might mean for Native Americans, touching on land rights and restoration, equality, federal funding, the Indian Health Service, justice and prosecution, independence and domestic dependence, as well as the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma which affirmed Native American ownership rights in Oklahoma.

Professor Rosser grew up surrounded by Navajo culture. In 2003, he graduated from Harvard Law. Ezra specializes in poverty law, Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples, property law, housing, law, and public interest law. In today’s conversation, Ezra talks about his background, personal experience, and his academic work. Aaron and Ezra explore how the law regards Native Americans and their rights, delving into a broader conversation about reckoning with our country’s past, today’s political climate, the responsibility of governments, treaties, autonomy, Indian property rights and more. Ezra and Aaron also spend time navigating the Supreme Court’s ruling on July 9th, a decision that could have long-ranging implications.

Ezra joined the WCL faculty in 2006. He has taught Property Law, Federal Indian Law, Poverty Law, Land Use, Housing Law, Advanced Legal Analysis, and Wills, Trusts, and Estates. Previously, he served as a visiting professor at Ritsumeiken University, a 1665 Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. Professor Rosser currently serves as a Commissioner for the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority and is a past chair of the AALS Property Law, Poverty Law, and Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples sections. His articles have appeared in journals including the California Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Washington University Law Review, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Environmental Law, and the American Indian Law Review. Ezra is co-author of a textbook Poverty Law, Policy and Practice (Aspen 2014), was the editor of Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty (Cambridge 2019), and was a co-editor of The Poverty Law Canon (Michigan Press 2014) and Tribes, Land, and the Environment (Ashgate 2012). He is currently working on a sole authored book, Exploiting the Fifth World: Navajo Land and Economic Development.

Listen in to learn more!

To learn more about Professor Rosser, please visit his bio page here.

For the list of Ezra’s publications, please click here.

To check out the Poverty Law Blog, please click here.

To read the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, please click here.

Host: Aaron Freiwald

Guest: Ezra Rosser

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