Montana Standard interviews Barbara Creel on the Violence Against Women Act and Double Standards

Authors

Barbara L. Creel, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-18-2016

Abstract

Barbara Creel, Southwest Indian Law Clinic Director Professor at the University of New Mexico, agreed with Babcock that the case was not about tribal sovereignty.

Yet she said the case reveals inequities in the criminal justice system of tribes created when Congress told them how to structure their governments under the Indian Reorganization Act but did not provide sufficient funding or additional legal protections to make those systems function as intended.

Additionally, in a brief she and colleagues filed to the court, Creel argues that the Violence Against Women Act creates a discriminatory double standard.

Publication Title

Montana Standard | Missoulian

Recommended Citation

Barbara L. Creel, Montana Standard interviews Barbara Creel on the Violence Against Women Act and Double Standards, Montana Standard | Missoulian (2016).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/714

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