Adam Crepelle

Dec 20, 2023 | mercatus.org | Adam Crepelle

Summary: The World Trade Organization’s 2022 Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies failed to acknowledge Indigenous rights. This is problematic, particularly in the United States where tribes have constitutionally recognized sovereignty. Three tribes located within California have taken it upon themselves to assert their sovereignty by creating the United States’ first Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area (IMSA).

Nov 21, 2023 | thehill.com | Dominic Parker |Adam Crepelle

Set in early 20th-century Oklahoma on the Osage Indian Reservation, Martin Scorsese’s film “Killers of the Flower Moon” highlights how newly discovered oil became a curse for Osage who held “headrights” to royalties. The U.S. government set up a system of “guardians” for tribal citizens, ostensibly to protect Osage wealth. But the guardians engaged in illicit competition for royalties through deceit, corruption and murder. Many Osage stayed poor. The federal bureaucracy was culpable.

Jun 7, 2023 | mercatus.org | Christine McDaniel |Ilia Murtazashvili |Adam Crepelle |M. Krishnan

In June 2023, the International Freedom project co-hosted a symposium of applied experts to provide insights on effective implementation of a global agreement on fisheries. By getting out of epistemic bubbles and engaging across disciplines, the gathering explored bottom-up solutions that draw on Ostromian scholarship on the global commons and which might actually work—in the oceans, in local communities, in political settings, and at the WTO. An ongoing working group continues the efforts.