Faculty Scholarship

Spaces of Indigenous Justice: Applying Theory to Practical Problems (forthcoming 2023) (co-author, with Jennifer Hendry)

Reading American Indian Law: Foundational Principles (2020) (co-editor, with Grant Christensen) & author of Introduction:  Responding to a Changing Field (co-author, with Grant Christensen)

Customary Law of Indigenous Communities: Making Space on the Global Environmental Stage, 9 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 77 (2019)

Indigenous Justice:  New Tools, Spaces, and Approaches (2018) (co-editor, with Jennifer Hendry, Miriam Jorgensen, & Deirdre Howard-Wagner & co-author, with Jennifer Hendry, of Building New Traditions:  Drawing Insights from Interactive Legal Culture 161).

Reading Indian Law: Evaluating Thirty Years of Indian Law Scholarship, 54 Tulsa L. Rev. 81 (2018) (co-author, with Grant Christensen)

Justice for Native Nations: Insights from Legal Pluralism, 60 Ariz. L. Rev. 91 (2018) (co-author, with Jennifer Hendry)

No Religious Freedom for Traditional Native Religions:  Responding to ”Using a Religious Freedom Framework to Protect the Rights of Native Americans”, Berkeley Forum, Georgetown University (February 20, 2018), https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/forum/using-a-religious-freedom-fra....

Constitution as Dialogue:  Legal Pluralism and the American Experience. in Constitutional Recognition of First Peoples in Australia:  Theories and Comparative Perspectives 160 (Simon Young, Jennifer Nielsen, & Jeremy Patrick eds., 2016) (co-author, with Jennifer Hendry).

Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, and the Pursuit of Justice, 34 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 351 (2016) (co-author, with Jennifer Hendry).

Lessons from the United States on Building More Effective Means of Addressing Indigenous Child Welfare Issues, 19 Austl. Indigenous L. Rev. 103 (2016).

On-the-Ground VAWA Implementation:  Lessons from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, 55 Judges' Journal, Fall 2016, at 8 (co-author, with Alfred Urbina).

Not a Gorilla, Not an Emblem, Law at the End of the Day (June 8, 2016) (co-author, with Jennifer Hendry), http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/dehumanization-and-control-essa....

Tribal Legal Code Resource: Tribal Laws Implementing TLOA Enhanced Sentencing and VAWA Enhanced Jurisdiction, (2015) (co-author, with Maureen L. White Eagle & Chia Halpern Beetso)

Law, Culture, & Environment (2014) (co-author, with Jill Kappus Shaw).

Structuring Sovereignty:  Constitutions of Native Nations (2014) (co-author, with Miriam Jorgensen, Mary Guss, & Sarah Deer).

VAWA and the Rolled-Up Newspaper of Goodness, Huffington Post (Mar. 14, 2013), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-l-tatum-/vawa-and-the-rolledup-new_b_2863467.html.

Navajo Law Reporter (2d ed. 2012) (general ed., vols. 1 & 2).

The Path of Women in the Legal Academy, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 795 (2012).

Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A Flowchart, UANativeNet professional development series (2012).

Conflicts of Law: State and Tribal (forthcoming 2011).

January 8, 1962 - the Day the Universe Changed: Gideon, ICRA, and the Erosion of Tribal Sovereignty, in Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act ___ (forthcoming 2011).

Indian Law 101: A Toolkit for Journalists, UANativeNet professional development series (2011).

Best Practices for Enhancing Enforcement of Protection Orders in New Mexico (2d ed. 2010) (contributing author).

Trying the System, in Ardeur:  14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series 121 (Laurell K. Hamilton ed., 2010).

Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?, 18 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 219 (2010) (co-author, with Robert E. Spoo & Benjamin Pope).

Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders, UANativeNet Guidebook Series (2010) (co-author, with Mary E. Guss).

Issuing Protection Orders, UANativeNet Guidebook Series (2010) (co-author, Mary E. Guss).

Regulating Water Quality in Indian Country, UANativeNet Guidebook Series (2010) (co-author, with Marren Sanders)..

Navajo Law Reporter (2008) (general ed., vol. 8).

Best Practices for Enhancing Enforcement of Protection Orders in New Mexico (2009) (contributing author).

Identity and Authenticity in the Filk Community, Transformative Works & Cultures No. 3 (2009), http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/139/102.

Book Review, 51 Can. J. Criminology & Crim. Just. 271 (reviewing Laurence French’s Legislating Indian Country: Significant Milestones in Transforming Tribalism) (2009).

Foreward (National Native American Law Students Association 8th Annual Writing Competition), 26 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 507 (2009).

Opinion, AG Values Banks over Battered Women, Tulsa World, Mar. 30, 2008, at G4.

American Indian Law Center, Archaeological Resources Protection Act; Black Hills; Regulating Crime in Indian Country; Cultural Property and Protection of Cultural Property; Employment Division v. Smith; Indian Civil Rights Act; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; Oliphant v. Suquamish, Sacred Sites; U.S. v. Lara; U.S v. Sioux Nation, in Encyclopedia of United States - American Indian Policy, Relations, and Law (forthcoming 2008).

Tribal Courts: Tensions Between Efforts to Develop Tribal Common Law and Pressures to Harmonize with State and Federal Courts, in Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence and Resistance 81 (Larry Catá Backer ed., 2007).

Domestic Violence in Indian Country: State/Sovereign Accountability, Chapter III, Sovereignty Symposium XIX 2006 - Common Ground (published conference materials) (2006).

Mvskoke Law Reporter: The Decisions of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (2006) (general ed., with Michelle Grunsted).

Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005) (contributing author).

Tribal Efforts To Comply with VAWA’s Full Faith and Credit Requirements: A Response to Sandra Schmieder, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 403 (2004) (co-author, with Sarah Deer).

Law Enforcement Authority in Indian Country: Challenges Presented by the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 4 Tribal L. J. 2 (2004).

Symposium Foreword (Symposium: Tribal Sovereignty and U.S. v. Lara), 40 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2004).

Establishing Penalties for Violating Protection Orders: What Tribal Governments Need to Know, 13 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 125 (2003).

Is Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Member Indians Based on Inherent Sovereignty or on a Delegation of Federal Power?, 2003 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cases 214.

The Little Black Book: A Do-It Yourself Manual for Law Student Competitions (2002) (co-author, with Barbara Kay Bucholtz & Martin A. Frey).

A Jurisdictional Quandary: Challenges Facing Tribal Governments in Implementing the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 90 Ky. L.J. 123 (2001 - 2002), reprinted in Doing Business in Indian Country 123 (6th ed., 2008).

Model Tribal Code for Enforcement of Foreign Protection Orders, available as an appendix to A Jurisdictional Quandary: Challenges Facing Tribal Governments in Implementing the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 90 Ky. L.J. 123 (2001 - 2002) (co-author).

Indigenous People's Rights, International Law of, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 417 (Kermit L. Hall ed. in chief, 2002).

Tribal Jurisdiction and Protection Orders: The Experience of the Michigan Working Group on Implementing the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Act, Chapter VI, Sovereignty Symposium XIV: 2001 - A Tribal Odyssey (published conference materials) (2001).

Foreword (Symposium: Native American Law), 37 Tulsa L. Rev. 481 (2001).