Rebecca Tsosie

Professor Rebecca Tsosie attended an invited conference at the University of Georgia on Aug. 26 that was intended to promote dialogue between tribes in the southeast and climate scientists.

Tsosie was among philosophers, economists, historians and other legal scholars at “The Impact of Climate Change on Tribal Resource Management,” sponsored by the Institute of Native American Studies and the U.S. Forest Service.

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 College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws 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.