Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
Colorado Law has long enjoyed one of the nation’s strongest and oldest teaching and research programs in American Indian. With globally recognized faculty including Professor and former Dean S. James Anaya, former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Professor Kristen Carpenter, the former North American Representative on the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, our program has nuanced emphases on American Indian law, international indigenous peoples, natural resources and environmental law, and international law. Faculty also focus on law within indigenous groups.
Faculty and students are heavily involved in projects with indigenous groups throughout the United States, the Americas, and the world. Teaching, research, and service projects have students working with:
- indigenous groups,
- U.N. bodies in New York and Geneva,
- other intergovernmental bodies, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
- national, state/provincial/regional, and municipal governmental entities,
- NGOs, and
- multinational firms.
Faculty and students work on projects at the intersection of indigenous rights and other areas of law, such as natural resources, environmental law, international law, and intellectual property. For example, faculty and students have been heavily engaged in projects related to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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Indigenous Rights- LLM Quotes
