3) Publish
4) Natamst 102
5) Research Opps.
6) Legalst 113
7) Anthro 189
8) Registrar Needs Input
This class will focus on how global businesses should approach addressing and improving labor conditions in their supply chainsin the context of a new and evolving regulatory framework. We will explore which private interventions have alreadybeen tried, but which approaches might be more impactful.How can companies respond to the various pressures they are facing (i.e.soft law guidelines, new regulations, investor pressures, consumer demands) and address
these issues more effectively? And how can global corporations make adjustments to a business model,which itself often perpetuates poor labor conditions and a lack of human rights throughout the supply chain? We will also examine legal “innovations,” like binding agreements and responsible contracting to improve human rights in the supply chain.We will use examples from a wide range of industries, including technology, apparel, retail, mining/ extractives, agriculture,seafood/fishing, and mega sporting events.
In the summer of 2025, Peking University (PKU) will launch a new Academic Explorers in China Program, in collaboration with partner universities in the U.S., as part of their China Deep Dive: Global Young Leaders Program.
Participants will attend lectures on the PKU campus and participate in guided excursions in and around Beijing. Students from PKU will also join the program, fostering a mutual understanding of cultures and values. This initiative aims to encourage participants to form lifelong friendships that will support them as they transition into future leadership roles.
As a partner university, UC Berkeley has been invited to recommend 6-8 undergraduate students to participate in the program.
The application deadline is Monday, December 23, 2024.
Late and incomplete applications will NOT be considered. PKU will announce the results in mid-January to all the partner universities.
Could you help us spread the word through the legal studies program? Students may contact me at ccs@berkeley.edu for questions or concerns.
We are The Harper Review, a review of politics and culture run by University of Chicago students that takes inspiration from publications such as Compact, The Hedgehog Review, The New Criterion, The Point, The Drift, The New Statesman, Dissent, First Things, County Highway and classics like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine.
We are now looking for essays and shorter “letters” for our winter issue.
We’re interested in essays that:
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Thoughtfully explore cultural and political phenomena.
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Don’t rely on academic jargon or vogue.
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Are written for a general audience without talking down or dumbing down.
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Are 1,500–2,500 words—we’re happy to look at longer or marginally shorter pieces, but we want to give writers space to fully flesh out their ideas.
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Argue something we may not hear from the talking heads.
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Connect life on the ground to big ideas and vice versa.
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Take those that disagree seriously.
Note: we don’t want academic papers—ideas from class papers can inspire our essays, but we are a general-audience magazine, not an academic journal.
We’re also looking for shorter “letters” (4–5 paragraphs or 400–600 words) responding to the statement “The ivory tower should endure.” Argue in favor, against, or that the statement itself is flawed—we want to hear it all.
If you’re looking for inspiration for the letters prompt, you can check out our contributing editor Francesco P. Rahe’s essay on the merits of learning in wartime from our Fall issue.
Want to get more of a sense of our magazine? Here are a few highlights from the archive: New York University Ph.D. student Nicolas McKelvie reflects on New York City’s campaign against lanternflies. Longtime activist and educator Bill Ayers talks about children’s natural nose for lies. Magazine cofounder and USA Today editor Surya Gowda argues that the new media paradigm manufactures dissent.
If any of this sounds like your jam, shoot us a draft or a pitch and a writing sample at harperreview@gmail.com. If you are interested in subscribing to our weekly email newsletter or reading pieces we’ve published in the past, please visit our website. We will be accepting drafts for our Winter issue until January 5th—we hope to hear from you!
Sincerely,
The editors of The Harper Review
NATAMST 102 CRITICAL NATIVE AMERICAN LEGAL
AND POLICY STUDIES, SPRING 2025
Provisional Course Outline (December, 2024)
Course Description How are Tribal governments and Native American communities living in "Indian Country" shaped by U.S. federal laws and policies, and how do they use these laws and policies (and sometimes resist them) to address the needs of Native people? Topics include the significance of treaties and the basic legal tenets of tribal sovereignty, and ongoing tribal struggles to expand tribal sovereignty. The Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota is examined as a case study of tribal struggles for environmental justice, tribal sovereignty, and tribal control over tribal territory. The role of the fossil fuel (coal and oil) in underwriting--not undermining--is examined through the case of the Navajo Finally, the course takes up key court cases regarding the freedom of Native Americans to practice traditional religions without state interference, and with reasonable accommodations on public (federal and state) lands.
Basis of Grade: Four 5-page essays.
CLASS SESSIONS
PART I: TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND TREATIES
Class 1: How Indigenous Peoples and the Supreme Court Read Treaties
Reading: Vine Deloria, Jr. (Dakota), "Domestic Dependent Nations
Class 2: A Brief History of Federal Indian Policy and Law
Reading: Steven Pevar, "A History of Federal Indian Policy
Class 3: The Birth of the Modern Tribal Sovereignty Movement in the 1970s
Reading: Deloria, The Occupation of the BIA" & "The Confrontation at Wounded Knee"at Wounded Knee"
Film: "Wounded Knee
Class 4: Sovereignty and Treaties
Reading: John Dougherty, "Talk the Language of the Wider World" [about fishing rights in Oregon and Washington]
Class 5: Sovereignty without Treaties
Reading: Larisa K. Miller, "The Secret Treaties with California Indians"
Reading: Walt Lara (Yurok) and Kishan Lara-Cooper (Yurok/Hupa/Karuk, "Fish Wars on the Klamath River" [about the struggle for fishing rights in northwestern California]
Class 6: Civil Rights within Tribes, or, Does the U.S. Constitution Apply to Indian Tribes (No): Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez (1978)
Reading: Francine R. Skenandore (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin/Prairie Band Potawatomi),
Class 7 Tribal Authority over Non-Indians (Criminal): Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Reading: Robert Williams, "Rehnquist' Language of Racism in Oliphant"
Class 8: "Plenary Power": Congress Can Limit and Expand Tribal Sovereignty
Reading: Roert Williams (Lumbee), "The Rise of the Plenary Power Doctrine
Reading: "Fort Peck Tribes Expand Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Indians
Class 9: Indian Reservations and Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma: McGirt v. Oklahoma (U.S. Sup. Court, 2020)
Reading: Robert Miller (Eastern Shawnee and Torrey Dolan (Choctaw), "The Indian Law Bombshell"
THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE
Class 10 The Threat of DAPL and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Court Case
Reading 14: Nick Estes (Lakota) & Jaskiran Dhillon, "Introduction: The Black Snake, #NoDAPL, and the Rise of a People's Movement"
Reading: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota) Reading will be provided in class.
Class 11
Film: "Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock"
Class 12: DAPL, Treaties, and Tribal Sovereignty
Reading: Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria), "Centering Sovereignty
Class 13: DAPL, Treaties, and Tribal Sovereignty (cont.)
Reading: Andrew Curley (Diné), "Beyond Environmentalism"
Class 14: Settler Colonialism and the Infrastructure of of Capitalism
Reading: Shiri Paternak and Tia Dafnos, "How Does a Settler State Secure the Circuitry of Capital?
Class 15: The Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Impact Statement on DAPL
Reading: Selections from the EIS
Class 16: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the current situation)
Reading: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, "Call for the Shutdown of DAPL
FOSSIL AND FUEL EXTRACTION AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENT
Classes 17-22
Reading: Andrew Curley (Diné): Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM & SACRED SITES
Class 23: A Sacred Site in Northwest California
Readings: Walt Lara (Yurok) and Kishan Lara-Cooper (Yurok/Hupa/Karuk), "Across the Lagoon: The Inspiration behind the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association"
Chris Peters (Pohlik-lah/Karuk) and Chisa Oros (Toeme/Zuni), "Protecting Our Sacred Sites: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association (NICPA)"
Class 24:
Film: "The Peyote Road"
Class 25: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association
Reading: Walter Echohawk (Pawnee/Yakama), "Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Association: Taking the Holy Places"
Class 26: States Attempt to Criminalize the Native American Church
Reading: Walter Echohawk, "Employment Division v. Smith: Taking the Religion"
Optional reading: J.S. Slotkin, selection from The Peyote Religion
Class 27 Employment Division v. Smith and the "Smith Fix"
SURF L&S - Summer Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Program
The College of Letters and Science’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, or SURF L&S, provides $5,000 stipends to students carrying out substantial research projects over the summer months. In addition to funding, SURF fellows are placed into research clusters with near-discipline peers and attend a series of workshops that are intended to support their research process and build community amongst the fellows. To be eligible, students must have an overall 3.0 GPA, be enrolled in the College of Letters & Science, and have the full support of a faculty mentor who has agreed to supervise their research project. Applicants to SURF L&S must prepare a full research proposal; OURS offers information sessions in December and January and proposal writing workshops in January and February to support students applying to the program. Applications for summer 2025 will be due to SURF L&S: Friday March 14, 2025, 12:00pm. Please check the SURF L&S website for additional information and resources.
Rose Hills Summer Scholarships
Supported by the generosity of the Rose Hills Foundations, these scholarships support both independent and faculty-led research projects in select STEM disciplines, providing recipients with $5,000 in summer funding. Fellows must be US citizens with residency established in Southern California. Preference is given to applicants who have a 3.5 GPA, but consideration will be given to students with a GPA in the range of 3.0-3.49. To apply for a Rose Hills Summer Scholarship, applicants will need to confirm their eligibility (intended or declared major in eligible STEM field, residency in Southern California, and GPA) and submit a brief abstract of their research project. Applications for summer 2025 must be submitted by Friday March 7, 2025, 12pm. For additional information, please visit the Rose Hills Summer Scholarships website.
Haas Scholars Program
Every year, the Haas Scholars Program funds 20 students for up to $14,800 to carry out a capstone project in the summer preceding and during their final year on campus. Haas Scholars also receive guidance from faculty mentors (who also receive a stipend) and from a full-time staff member, membership in a close-knit interdisciplinary community of scholars, and connections to a network of 500+ alumni. Eligibility: 3.450+ UCB GPA, Graduating Fall ‘25 or Spring/Summer ‘26, and financial need (SAI <$26,000); open to undocumented students, permanent residents, and US citizens. Deadline 2/15/25 by 12pm Noon; interested students should attend an upcoming info session and/or proposal workshop and contact the Program Manager for an appointment.
The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize
The Stronach Baccalaureate Prize supports Cal graduates to undertake a public service, creative, or community-based research project in the year following graduation (fall 24, spring and summer 25 graduates eligible). Recipients are awarded up to $25,000 for projects that serve the public good and heighten awareness of social issues. The dates and times of upcoming information sessions are posted on the website. Interested students are highly encouraged to make an appointment with the program manager to discuss their project ideas. Applications for the 2025 Stronach Prize are due by Monday, March 3, 11:59PM.
UCDC
UCDC sends juniors and seniors to Washington DC for a semester to live and take classes at the UC Washington Center and intern at a variety of organizations, including on Capitol Hill, in federal agencies, private firms and non-profits, museums and media outlets. UCDC is open to all majors. Financial aid and scholarships available. Please visit the website for dates and times of upcoming information sessions, application deadlines, and contact information. Applications for the Fall 2025 semester are due on Thursday, February 20, 2025, 11:59PM.
URAP
The Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) provides an opportunity for Berkeley undergraduates to work with faculty members and research staff on cutting-edge research projects. Working closely with mentors, students will deepen their knowledge and skills in areas of special interest, while experiencing what it means to be part of an intellectual community engaged in research. The program is designed to stimulate awareness of advanced research and interest in graduate study. Students earn 1 unit of academic credit for every 3 hours of research work completed (limited to 4 units per term). Applications for the Spring semester open on January 17, 2025, and are due January 27, 2025 at 4pm.