Education |
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (1992) |
Trinity University, B.A. (1989) |
Personal Work Experience |
Research Professor of Law & Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2012 - present |
Research Professor of Law & Associate Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2009 - 2012 |
Professor of Law (previously Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, & Visiting Assistant Professor) , University of Tulsa College of Law, 1995 - 2008 |
Director, Dublin Study Abroad Program, University of Tulsa College of Law, Summer 2002; Summer 2006; Summer 2008 |
Director, LL.M. Program in American Indian and Indigenous Law (previously Co-Director), University of Tulsa College of Law, 2002 - 2006 |
Co-Director, the Native American Law Center, University of Tulsa College of Law, 2000 - 2008 |
Judge, Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals, 1999 - 2006 |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, 1999 - 2000 |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, 1998 - 1999 |
Law Clerk to Judge Cornelia Kennedy, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1994 - 1995 |
Law Clerk to Judge James Ryan, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1993 - 1994 |
Law Clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven D. Pepe, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1992 - 1993 |
Representative Publications
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| Law, Culture & Environment (forthcoming 2012) (co-author, with Jill Kappus). |
| Contributing Author, Best Practices for Enhancing Enforcement of Protection Orders in New Mexico (2d ed., 2010). |
| General Editor, Navajo Law Reporter, Vol. 8 (2008). |
| Tribal Courts: Tensions Between Efforts to Develop Tribal Common Law and Pressures to Harmonize with State and Federal Courts, in Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence and Resistance 81 (Larry Catá Backer ed., 2007). |
| Contributing Author, Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005). |
| A Jurisdictional Quandary: Challenges Facing Tribal Governments in Implementing the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 90 Ky. L.J. 123 (2001 - 2002). |
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Complete List of Publications |
Presentations
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Keynote speaker, The Tribal Law and Order Act (Advocacy in Action Conf., Albuquerque, N.M., Apr. 2012).
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Speaker, Native Americans and Access to Sacred Sites Located on Lands Owned by the U.S. Government (Minority Rights & Indigenous Peoples Summer School, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National Univ. Ireland-Galway, June 2011).
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Speaker, Indigenous Rights to Access and Protect Sacred Sites (Trina Grillo Retreat, Univ. San Francisco, San Francisco, Cal., Mar. 2011).
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Keynote Speaker, American Indians and Domestic Violence: Issues and Solutions (Arizona Psychological Assn. 2010 Annual Conf., Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 2010).
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IPLP Distinguished Speaker, (Re)Defining Cultural Property (James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Ariz., Apr. 23, 2010).
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| Complete List of Presentations |
Public Service |
Consultant, New Mexico Attorney General's Office Taskforce on Enforcement of Protection Orders 2007 - 2010 |
Consultant, Navajo Nation Rules Harmonization Project 2007 - 2008 |
Secretary, AALS Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples 2002 - 2005 |
Chair, AALS Section on Women in Legal Education 2004 - 2005 |
Secretary, AALS Section on Women in Legal Education 2003 - 2004 |
Judge, American Indian Law Review's Law Student Writing Competition 2003 |
Treasurer, AALS Section on Women in Legal Education 2002 - 2003 |
Member, Executive Committee, AALS Section on Criminal Justice 2001 - 2003 |
Program Chair, AALS Section on Indigenous Nations and Peoples 2001 - 2002 |
Chair, AALS Section on Indigenous Nations and Peoples 2001 - 2002 |
Member, Michigan joint federal/state/tribal task force to implement full faith and credit provisions of Violence Against Women Act 2000 - 2001 (co-chair, subcommittee on tribal jurisdictional issues |
Awards |
| Honoree, Fourth Annual Native Justice Powwow 2009 |
| University of Tulsa College of Law Nominee for University Outstanding Teacher Award 2007 |
| NALSA Faculty Sponsor of the Year Award 2005 |
| University of Tulsa College of Law Upper Class Professor of the Year 2002 - 2003 |
| University of Tulsa College of Law Nominee for University Outstanding Teacher Award 2002 - 2003 |
| University of Tulsa College of Law Upper Class Professor of the Year 2001 - 2002 |
Biography |
| Professor Tatum specializes in tribal jurisdiction and tribal courts, as well as in issues relating to cultural property and sacred places. She was a contributing author to Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, and has written extensively about both civil and criminal procedural issues, as well as about the relationship between tribal, state, and federal courts. Professor Tatum has served on task forces in Michigan and New Mexico charged with developing procedures to facilitate cross-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders, and has taught seminars on domestic violence and protection orders throughout the United States for judges, attorneys, law enforcement, and victim advocates, including at the National Tribal Judicial Center. Between 1999 and 2006 she served as a judge on the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals. Professor Tatum joined the University of Arizona faculty in January 2009, after serving as a faculty member at the University of Tulsa for more than thirteen years. |
Updated:
09/29/2011
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