The University of Colorado at Boulder Law School

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Sarah Krakoff

Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research
Natural Resources Law; Civil Procedure; Indian Law

University of Colorado Law School
407 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-2641
E-mail: sarah.krakoff@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  View (PDF format)

Educational Background:
J.D.	University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall	1991
B.A.	Yale University	1986	cum laude

Bio:
Professor Krakoff teaches and is widely published in the areas of American Indian law and natural resources law. Her article examining the effects of federal law on the Navajo Nation’s exercise of sovereignty, A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation, received the Jules Millstein Faculty Writing Award at the University of Colorado Law School in 2006 and has been cited in several federal district court opinions. Professor Krakoff has also written about environmental ethics, public lands, and global warming. Her current projects include a new American Indian law casebook (co-authored by Bob Anderson, Bethany Berger and Phil Frickey) and a book (currently titled “Parenting the Planet,”) about the different stages of the human relationship to nature. When Professor Krakoff first came to the Law School, she was the Director of the American Indian Law Clinic, supervising students in a range of federal Indian and tribal law matters. She succeeded in securing permanent University funding for the Clinic before moving to non-clinical teaching in 1999. Before coming to Colorado, Professor Krakoff was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work on the Navajo Nation as Director of the Youth Law Project for DNA-People’s Legal Services. Professor Krakoff clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Warren J. Ferguson from 1992-93, and received her J.D. from Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, in 1991 and her B.A. from Yale University in 1986. She lives in Boulder with her husband John Carlson and their daughter Lucy.

Forthcoming

The Last Indian Raid in Kansas: Context, Colonialism, and Philip P. Frickey’s Contributions to American Indian Law, Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010).

Book and Book Chapters

Healing the West with Taxes: The Navajo Nation and the Enactment of Sovereignty, in Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories and Cultures, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell & Sharon K. Collinge, eds. (U. of Arizona Press) (2009).

Krakoff (with Kristen Carpenter), Repairing Reparations in the American Indian Nation Context, Book chapter in "Reparations to Indigenous Peoples in Comparative and International Law," Oxford University Press (2008).

Krakoff (with Robert T. Anderson, Bethany Berger, and Philip P. Frickey), American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, (Thomson/West) (2008).

Articles

Afterthoughts from a “Buzz Killer”, 32 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 151 (2007-2008) (Conference Transcript: The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law) (2008).

American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World, 85 Denv. U. L. Rev. 865 (2008).

The Renaissance of Tribal Sovereignty, the Negative Doctrinal Feedback Loop, and the Rise of a New Exceptionalism, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 47 (2006).

The Virtues and Vices of Sovereignty, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 797 (2006).

A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation, 83 Or. L. Rev. 1109 (2005).

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Our Common Future, 53 Buff. L. Rev. 925 (2005).

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation: A Regretful Postscript to the Taxation Chapter in Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 5 (2005).

Settling the Wilderness, 75 Univ. of Colorado Law Review 1159 (2004).

Mountains Without Handrails -- Wilderness Without Cell Phones, 27 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 417 (2003).

Undoing Indian Law One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism and Tribal Sovereignty, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 1177 (2001).

Does "Law and Literature" Survive Lawyerland?, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 1742 (2001).

Indian Child Welfare Act: Keeping Families Together and Minimizing Litigation, 30 Colorado Lawyer 81 (2001).

Other Publications

Keeping an Eye on the Golden Snitch: Implications of the Interdisciplinary Approach in the Fourth Generation of Natural Resources Law Casebooks, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 751-765 (Book Reviews of Natural Resources Law Casebooks) (2007).

Book Chapters

Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice, in (Bryner, Kenney and Mutz, eds.) Justice and Natural Resources (2001).

Courses:

Spring 2010	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5313-801
Spring 2010	Advanced Natural Resources Law	LAWS 8112-001
Fall 2009	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5303-801
Spring 2009	Public Land Law	LAWS 6002-001
Fall 2008	American Indian Law I	LAWS 7725-001
Spring 2008	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5313-803
Spring 2008	Foundations of Natural Resources Law and Policy	LAWS 6112-001
Fall 2007	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5303-803
Fall 2007	Advanced American Indian Law	LAWS 8725-001
Fall 2006	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5303-803
Fall 2006	Advanced American Indian Law	LAWS 8725-001