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Office: 468
Phone: (303) 492-6526
E-mail: kristen.carpenter@colorado.edu
Educational Background: | |||
J.D. | Harvard Law School | 1998 | cum laude |
B.A. | Dartmouth College | 1994 | cum laude |
Published Books
CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEDERAL INDIAN LAW, (with D. Getches, C. Wilkinson, R. Williams, and M. Fletcher) (West Academic Publishing 7th ed.) (2017). |
COHEN'S HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW, (N. Newton et al., eds.) (LEXIS supps. 2015 and 2017). |
THE INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AT FORTY, (with M. Fletcher and A. Riley, co-eds.) (UCLA American Indian Studies Center Publications) (2012). |
Articles
Book Chapters
Religious Freedoms, Sacred Sites, and Human Rights in the United States, in COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (B. Gunn et. al., eds.) (2020). |
Human Rights to Culture, Family, and Self-Determination: The Case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (with L. Graham) (forthcoming). |
Individual Religious Freedoms in Tribal Constitutional Law, in THE INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AT FORTY, (K. Carpenter, M. Fletcher, and A. Riley, eds.) (UCLA American Indian Studies Center Publications) (2012). |
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association: Challenging the Narrative of Conquest, in Indian Law Stories (C. Goldberg, K.Washburn, and P. Frickey, eds.,) (Foundation Press) (with A. Bowers) (2011). |
Repairing Reparations in the American Indian Nation Context, in REPARATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (F. Lenzerini, ed.) (Oxford University Press) (with S. Krakoff) (2008). |
Other Publications
World leaves United States behind on commitment to Indigenous Peoples' language rights, The Hill, Dec. 26, 2021. |
Indian Status is Not Racial: Understanding ICWA as a Matter of Law and Practice, Cato Unbound, Aug. 9, 2016. |
One River, Two Canoes: Peace and Respect in Indian Child Welfare, Cato Unbound, Aug. 31, 2016. |
Standing Tall: The Sioux's battle against a Dakota Pipeline is a galvanizing social justice movement for Native Americans, Slate.com Sept. 23, 2016 (with A. Riley). |
Book Reviews
Book Review of Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries by Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, 35 American Indian Quarterly 260 (2011). |
Recovering Homelands, Governance, and Lifeways: Book Review of Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson, 31 Tulsa Law Review 79 (2005). |
Presentations and Speeches
Indigenous Rights, Human Rights: It's Time for the Declaration 14th Annual William C. Canby Lecture, 14th Annual William C. Canby Lecture, Arizona State College of Law, March 21, 2022. |
Race and Religion: Indigenous Peoples in the United States, Race and the Law Lecture Series, February 18, 2021. |
Human Rights and Museums, Global Provenance, Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, January 21, 2021. |
Indigenous Peoples and the Jurisgenerative Moment in Human Rights, 41st Austin Scott Lecture, University of Colorado Law School, October 8, 2015. |
Selected Press, Media & Publicity
Courses:
Spring 2025 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-801 |
Fall 2024 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-801 |
Fall 2024 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-801 |
Spring 2024 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-801 |
Fall 2023 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-801 |
Fall 2023 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-801 |
Fall 2022 | American Indian Law I | LAWS 7725-801 |
Fall 2022 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-801 |
Fall 2021 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-801 |
Fall 2021 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-801 |
Spring 2021 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
Fall 2020 | Cultural Property Law | LAWS 6602-801 |
Fall 2019 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-801 |
Spring 2019 | Cultural Property Law | LAWS 6602-801 |
Fall 2018 | LILAC Symposium Course: Leadership in Law and Community | LAWS 6808-801 |
Fall 2018 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-801 |
Fall 2018 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-902 |
Spring 2018 | Seminar: International Human Rights | LAWS 8440-801 |
Fall 2017 | Cultural Property Law | LAWS 6602-801 |
Spring 2017 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
Spring 2017 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-001 |
Fall 2015 | Indigenous Peoples In International Law | LAWS 7715-001 |
Fall 2014 | Cultural Property Law | LAWS 6602-001 |
Spring 2014 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
Spring 2014 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-001 |
Spring 2013 | Property | LAWS 5624-803 |
Spring 2013 | Seminar: Advanced Topics in American Indian Law | LAWS 8725-001 |