Rebecca Tsosie

Professor Rebecca Tsosie, a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, recently had an article published in the Lewis and Clark Law Review, titled “Reconceptualizing Tribal Rights: Can Self-Determination be Actualized Within the U.S.?”

The issue also contained an article by Professor Jacinta Ruru, of New Zealand, a Maori scholar who works on property and indigenous rights issues, and will be a Fulbright Scholar in residence at ASU in the fall.

Read the paper here.

Tsosie teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics and Critical Race Theory, as well as seminars in International Indigenous Rights and in the Master of Laws in Tribal Policy, Law, and Government program. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy and cultural rights, and is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism. Tsosie also is the co-author of a federal Indian law casebook. Her current research deals with Native rights to genetic resources.