Chad goes to Geneva
Chad's been working the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights, here's a copy of his pleadings, and here's a link to the controlling text -- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, lovingly known to its friends as the CERD.
During the lifetime of the triballaw mailing list, which I suppose really I should restart, now that I've got the resources to host it (and MB's going to law school), where Robert Williams (Getches, 3rd) and I parted company was on the question of whether FIL practitioners should (prospectively) have some exposure to International Treaty Law. It was a long and interesting thread on TL on the subject of our various critical frameworks for the hundred or so of us then contributing to TL.
So, if you had to pick your first case where an Indian claim was argued before any part of the UN system, would you pick the {Chad Smith / Wilma Mankiller / Ross Swimmer} cause of action (lack of electoral love for Ross by Cherokee Freemen, continued into the present), and the Congressional Black Caucus' mild and mindless counter cause of action (unwillingness to review the Oklahoma Acts, or the larger Rehnquist framed conception of race and personal jurisdiction as the definition of citizenship), or is there something slightly less non-serious somewhere hiding in plain sight?
