Sarah Krakoff
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Natural Resources Law; Civil Procedure; Indian Law
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 407
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 |
Sarah Krakoff, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, is a nationally recognized expert in Native American law, natural resources law, and environmental justice. She is the recipient of two University-wide awards, the Hazel Barnes Prize for distinguished scholarship and teaching and the Chase Community Service Award for her public service work with low-income communities. Her publications include American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (with Bob Anderson and Bethany Berger), Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (with Melissa Powers and Jonathan Rosenbloom), and Tribes, Land and Environment (with Ezra Rosser), as well as articles published in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review and other journals. Professor Krakoff is the founder and director of the Acequia Assistance Project, which provides free representation to low-income farmers in the San Luis Valley. She has authored amicus briefs in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Colorado Law tenure-track faculty, Professor Krakoff directed CU's American Indian Law Clinic and secured permanent University funding to ensure the Clinic's future. At the start of her legal career, 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. She received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1991 and her B.A. from Yale in 1986.
Published Books
| Beyond Zero Sum Environmentalism, with M. Powers & J. Rosenbloom, eds. (Environmental Law Inst., 2019). |
| American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, Anderson, Berger, Krakoff & Frickey (3d Ed., 2015). |
| Tribes, Land and Environment, Sarah Krakoff & Ezra Rosser, eds, (Ashgate 2012). |
| American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, Robert Anderson, Bethany Berger, Philip Fricky & Sarah Krakoff (Thomson/West, 2d ed. 2010). |
Articles
| Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, and Grand Canyon National Park, 92 University of Colorado Law Review 561 (2020). |
| Environmental Justice and the Possibilities for Environmental Law, 49 Envtl. L. 229 (2019). |
| Public Lands, Conservation, and the Possibility of Justice, 53 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 213. |
| They Were Here First: American Indian Tribes, Race, and the Constitutional Minimum, 69 Stanford Law Review (2017). |
| Law, Violence, and the Neurotic Structure of American Indian Law, 49 Wake Forest L. Rev. 743 (2014). |
| Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race, 9 Florida International L. Rev. 295 (2014). |
| Settler Colonialism and Reclamation: Where American Indian Law and Natural Resources Law Meet, 24 Colo. Nat. Resources, Energy & Envtl. L. Rev. 261 (2013). |
| Planetarian Identity Formation and the Relocalization of Environmental Law, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 87 (2012). |
| Inextricably Political: Race, Membership and Tribal Sovereignty, 87 Washington Law Review 1041 (2012). |
| Radical Adaptation, Justice and American Indian Nations, 4 Environmental Justice 207 (2011). |
| The Last Indian Raid in Kansas: Context, Colonialism, and Philip P. Frickey's Contributions to American Indian Law, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 1253 (2010) (Tribute Issue in Honor of Philip P. Frickey). |
| Tribal Civil Jurisdiction over Nonmembers: A Practical guide for Judges, 81 Colorado Law Review 1187 (2010). |
| When and How to Analyze Climate Change under the National Environmental Policy Act (with Stuart C. Gillespie), 2010, No. 4, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute Paper (Oct., 2010). |
| 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). |
| Conference Transcript: The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law (Taxation and Economic Development), 32 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 97 (2008). |
| 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 (2007). |
| 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). |
Book Chapters
| Public Lands and the Public Good, in Beyond Zero Sum Environmentalism, Krakoff, Powers & Rosenbloom, eds. (Envt'l Law Inst., 2019). |
| Sustainability and Justice, in Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, Jessica Owley & Keith H. Hirokawa, Eds., 199-227 (Eli, 2015). |
| Krakoff (with Jon-Daniel Lavallee), Natural Resource Development and Indigenous Peoples, in Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies 199 (Randall S. Abate ed., 2013). |
| Parenting the Planet, in The Ethics of Global Climate Change 145, Denis G. Arnold, ed. (Cambridge U. Press, 2011). |
| Mark the Plumber v. Tribal Empire, or Non-Indian Anxiety v. Tribal Sovereignty?: The Story of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, in Indian Law Stories 261, C. Goldberg, K. Washburn & P. Frickey, eds. (Foundation Press, 2011). |
| Ethical Perspectives on Resources Law and Policy: Global Warming and Our Common Future, in The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy 29 (Lawrence J. MacDonnell & Sarah F. Bates eds., 2010). |
| 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). |
| Repairing Reparations in the American Indian Nation Context, (with Kristen Carpenter) in "Reparations to Indigenous Peoples in Comparative and International Law," Oxford University Press (2008). |
| Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice, in (Bryner, Kenney and Mutz, eds.) Justice and Natural Resources (2001). |
Courses:
| Spring 2020 | Seminar: Advanced Natural Resources Law | LAWS 8112-803 |
| Fall 2019 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-801 |
| Fall 2019 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Seminar: The Law of the Colorado River | LAWS 8312-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Seminar: The Law of the Colorado River | LAWS 8312-902 |
| Fall 2017 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-803 |
| Fall 2017 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-001 |
| Spring 2017 | Seminar: Advanced Natural Resources Law | LAWS 8112-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Foundations of Natural Resources Law | LAWS 6112-001 |
| Spring 2016 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-803 |
| Fall 2015 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-001 |
| Spring 2015 | American Indian Law II | LAWS 7735-001 |
| Spring 2015 | Seminar: Advanced Natural Resources Law | LAWS 8112-001 |
| Fall 2014 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-803 |
| Fall 2012 | Foundations of Natural Resources Law | LAWS 6112-002 |
| Fall 2012 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-001 |