  This review summarises recent observational results regarding the evolution
of angular momentum and disks in brown dwarfs. The observations clearly show
that brown dwarfs beyond ages of 10 Myr are exclusively fast rotators and do
not spin down with age. This suggests that rotational braking by magnetic winds
becomes very inefficient or ceases to work in the substellar regime. There is,
however, some evidence for braking by disks during the first few Myrs in the
evolution, similar to stars. Brown dwarf disks turn out to be scaled down
versions of circumstellar disks, with dust settling, grain growth, and in some
cases cleared out inner regions. The global disk properties roughly scale with
central object mass. The evolutionary timescales in substellar disks are
entirely consistent with what is found for stars, which may be challenging to
understand. Given these findings, it is likely that brown dwarfs are able to
form miniature planetary systems.
