Kathryn's Indian Gaming Law course at UND School of Law starts today.  (Steve taught Indian Gaming and American Politics as an upper-level undergraduate political science course at UND this spring.)  Here are the topics we're covering, using Light&Rand, Indian Gaming & Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise and Rand & Light, Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials:

I.  Indian Gaming in Context
A.  What is Indian Gaming?
B.  Gambling Law and Regulation
C.  Tribal Governments in the American Political System
D.  Pre-Statutory Law

II.  The Federal Regulatory Scheme
A.  Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988
B.  Bingo and Other Forms of Class II Gaming
C.  Casino-Style or Class III Gaming

III.  Policy Implications and Recurring Legal & Political Issues
A.  Socioeconomic Impacts
B.  Gaming on Newly Acquired Lands
C.  Tribal-State Revenue-Sharing Agreements
D.  Federal Regulation of Indian Gaming
E.  Law & Policy Reform