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James C Hopkins

  • Associate Specialist, Law
  • Associate Clinical Professor, Law
  • Professor, Public Health
  • Associate Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Chair, American Indian Studies-GIDP
Contact
  • hopkinsj@arizona.edu
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Awards

  • CV attached
    • Summer 2022
  • Award of Appreciation
    • Pascua Yaqui Senior’s Center, Spring 2015
  • Judgement in the Rio Yaqui case/ FIFONAFE
    • I am suing Mexico and on May 4, 2014 I received a favorable judgment from Mexico's equivalent to the Interior Department for the statement of account on $47 million U.S. dollars held in trust by the State for the removal of the Rio Yaqui, Summer 2014

Licensure & Certification

  • Member (Barrister and Solicitor), Law Society of Upper Canada (Law Society of Ontario) (1999)

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

  • Hopkins, J. C. (2020).

    Indigenous Peoples of Mexico at the Crossroads: The Human Cost of Continental Trade

    . In Indigenous Peoples and International Trade(pp 30 (chapter)). London, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hopkins, J. C. (2026).

    Exhausting Domestic Remedies: comparing the CEC on environmental and indigenous rights claims

    . In The USMCA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform(p. 45). Cambridge University Press.

Journals/Publications

  • Hopkins, J. C. (2017).

    Mujures Yaquis por el Acceso al Agua y los Alimentos

    . Institutuo Juridicas, UNISON, "Symposium of History and Anthropology 2017", 24.
  • Hopkins, J. C. (2017).

    VULNERABILIDAD ANTE LA INSEGURIDAD HÍDRICA: UNA APROXIMACIÓN INTERDISCIPLINARIA SOBRE EL ABASTECIMIENTO DOMÉSTICO DE AGUA EN PUEBLOS YAQUIS

    . Instituto Juridicas, Symposio UNISON 2017, 21.
  • Hopkins, J. C. (2018).

    THIS IS IN PROGRESS / Good Samaritans, Preemption, and Abandoned Hardrock Mines /

    . AJELP.
    More info
    Hardrock mines contain the most valuable minerals extracted in the United States, including silver and gold, but the majority of these mines were abandoned by their owners when they were exhausted, causing caused millions of dollars of environmental damage and attendant human health risks. As demonstrated by the Gold King Mine Spill, US taxpayers have borne the ultimate costs of cleanup. The EPA has already taken responsibility for the Gold King Mine Spill, and has spent over $6,300,000 to reimburse the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, as well as the Navajo and Ute Indian tribes for their costs. In November 2016 the EPA issued proposed regulations governing Hardrock mining financial guarantees, to which a number of western mining states have objected, citing federalism concerns. Hardrock mining preemption conflicts have also made their way into the federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 2017 denial of certification in New Mexico v. Colorado and the pending case of Rinehart v. California present forthright “obstacle preemption” issues.
  • Hopkins, J. C. (2018).

    The Role of Conservation Agreements under the Endangered Species Act: extinction and ethical considerations

    . TBA.
  • Hopkins, J. C., Grageda, A., & Rivera, A. (2016).

    MUJERES YOEME Y ALIMENTACIÓN: ESTRATEGIAS DE ADAPTACIÓN ALIMENTARIA EN EL CONTEXTO DE LOS CONFLICTOS POR EL AGUA Y LA TIERRA EN EL YAQUI

    . Instituto Juridicas, Symposio UNISON 2017, 24.
  • Galindo, A. (2017). RIO YAQUI—THE HIAK VATWE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. Open Rivers, online. doi:https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.3518
    More info
    Anabel Galindo and James Hopkins, "Rio Yaqui - The Hiak Vatwe: The Transformation of a Cultural Landscape", Issue 8, Fall 2017, Open Rivers, Institute for Advanced Studies, The University of Minnesota, online: http://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/rio-yaqui-the-hiak-vatwe/
  • Maier, R. M., Diaz-Barriga, F., Field, J. A., Hopkins, J. C., Klein, B., & Poulton, M. M. (2014). Socially responsible mining: the relationship between mining and poverty, human health and the environment. Reviews on Environmental Health, 29, 83-89.

Presentations

  • Hopkins, J. C. (2016, August).

    Indigenous Human Rights and the Inter-American System: Procedural Conundrums

    . Faculty Summer Workshop Series. University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

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