Rebecca Tsosie

Rebecca Tsosie is Professor of Law at Arizona State University, where she also serves as the Executive Director of ASU's Indian Legal Program. She serves as a Supreme Court Justice for Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation. She was appointed as the Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics in 2001. She joined the faculty of the ASU College of Law in 1993, after practicing with the law firm of Brown & Bain. Ms. Tsosie graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1990, and she clerked for then Vice-Chief Justice Stanley G. Feldman before joining Brown & Bain. Ms. Tsosie teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory and she is the author of several articles dealing with cultural resources, environmental policy, and cultural pluralism. She is the co author of a federal Indian law casebook entitled: American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System. She is admitted to practice in Arizona and California. She is the recipient of the American Bar Association's "2002 Spirit of Excellence Award." Ms. Tsosie is of Yaqui descent.

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