My research interests and scholarship lie at the intersections of the fields of Native American law, environmental law, international and comparative law, and human rights law.
Teaching
courses taught
LAWS 6708 - LAWS:
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Fall 2024
Explores special topics in law. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
LAWS 7735 - American Indian Law II
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Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Investigates the legal history and current legal status of Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Addresses other current topics such as tribal water rights, tribal fishing and hunting rights, tribal justice systems, religious freedom, and tribal natural resource and environmental management.
LAWS 7745 - Tribal Law
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Spring 2026
Tribes are sovereign nations with inherent powers of self-government, including the right to make their own laws and be ruled by them.�Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217, 220 (1959). This course provides a historical and contemporary overview of the internal laws of Tribal nations. It serves as a general introduction to the diverse types of laws by which Tribal nations govern themselves, with attention paid to topics such as oral tradition, Tribal governments, membership, Tribal constitutions, criminal and civil jurisdiction, and Tribal court jurisprudence. This course is intended to not only familiarize students with traditional and continuously developing aspects of Tribal law, but also to examine external impacts and limitations on the internal law of Tribal nations.�Although this course primarily considers the laws of Tribes located in the United States, we may also from time to time explore the laws of Indigenous Peoples in other parts of the world.
