Faculty Leadership
Three outstanding professors lead the Native American programs at the University of Oklahoma College of Law:
Lindsay Robertson
- J.D., Ph.D.(History)
- Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policies and Sam K. Viersen, Jr. Presidential Professor
A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law Professor Robertson teaches in the area of Federal Indian Law, Constitutional Law and Legal History. He practiced law in Washington, D.C., and has taught Federal Indian Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and the George Washington University National Law Center. His book, Conquest by Law, a history of Johnson v. M'Intosh, was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. Professor Robertson is an author of the forthcoming revision of Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, Special Justice of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Supreme Court. He serves as advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Working Group on the Draft Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, which meets in Geneva.
Katheleen R. Guzman
- J.D., LL.M.
- Associate Dean for Academics
- MAPCO/Williams Presidential Professor of Law
A graduate of the University of Arkansas Law School and Yale Law School, Katheleen Guzman teaches Property, Indian Land Titles and Wills and Trusts. Professor Guzman has researched the interplay between federal land consolidation policies and individual allotments, resulting in a published article in the Iowa Law Review(2000) entitled Give and Take an Acre: Property Norms and the Indian Land Consolidation Act. Her scholarship continues to explore the socio-cultural aspects of property ownership and it transfer. Professor Guzman has participated in a number of Native American workshops and conferences.
Taiawagi Helton
- J.D., LL.M.
- Associate Professor of Law
Taiawagi Helton is a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law and earned a Master of Law degree from Yale Law school.
Professor Helton clerked for the Honorable Robert H. Henry, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and has written and researched extensively in the field of Native American law. He serves on the Board of Directors of Oklahoma Indian Legal Services and teaches in the area of Native American Law, Property Law and Environmental Law