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Kevin K. Washburn is the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior. He was nominated in August 2012 by President Barack Obama to become Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs. His nomination was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on September 21, 2012. Previously, he served as the dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. He is a former federal prosecutor, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. == Life and work == Washburn, an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior on September 21, 2012, and was sworn into office by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on October 9, 2012. He is the twelfth Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs to be confirmed since the position was established by Congress in the late 1970s. In addition to carrying out the Department’s trust responsibilities regarding the management of tribal and individual Indian trust lands and assets, the Assistant Secretary is responsible for promoting the self-determination and economic self-sufficiency of the nation’s 566 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and their approximately two million enrolled members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher =United States Department of the Interior – Indian Affairs )〕 While serving as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washburn successfully argued ''Montana v. EPA'', in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize the Salish and Kootenai Tribes as a state for purposes of setting water quality standards under the Clean Water Act.〔See ''Montana v. EPA'', 137 F.3d 1135 (9th Cir. 1998).〕 Washburn also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in New Mexico,〔See http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328〕 and was a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Much of Washburn's scholarship focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian law and criminal law.〔See ().〕 In one of his articles, he focuses on the federal criminal justice system that applies on Indian reservations and the federal constitutional values of criminal procedure.〔See Indians, Crime and the Law, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 709 (2006), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714.〕 In another piece, Washburn writes about the federalized criminal justice system and federal Indian policy involving Native American self-determination.〔See Federal Criminal Law and Tribal Self-Determination, 84 No. Carolina L. Rev. 779 (2006), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714.〕 His groundbreaking work in this field was discussed at length in a piece in the High Country News.〔See http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17455〕 In July 2008, Senator Byron Dorgan introduced S. 3320: Tribal Law and Order Act of 2008 in an attempt to fix some of the problems highlighted in Washburn's scholarship.〔http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-3320〕 The Tribal Law and Order Act was signed into law in 2010. Washburn is also one of the country's leading experts on Gaming and Gambling Law. He served as the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) from January 2000 to July 2002.〔See ().〕 In addition, he is the author of (a law school casebook on Gaming Law and Regulation ) published by Aspen Publishers in 2010. He frequently testifies before Congress and the courts on issues involving Indian gaming. While visiting at (Harvard Law School ) during the 2007-08 academic year, Professor Washburn taught the first course on (Gaming/Gambling Law ) in that school’s history.〔See http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328].<〕 Professor Washburn has taught Gaming/Gambling Law at the (University of Minnesota Law School ), Harvard Law School, the (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law ), and the (University of New Mexico School of Law ). Washburn is also an expert in Federal Indian Law. He is an author of one of the principal casebooks on Federal Indian Law, entitled (American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System ). He is also an author/editor of (Indian Law Stories ), a book that provides the back stories of several key American Indian law cases. In addition, he is an author and member of the Executive Board of Editors of (Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law ), the leading treatise in the filed of Federal Indian Law. Washburn is married to Libby Rodke Washburn, the chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and they have two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin K. Washburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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