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Faculty Profile
Melissa L. Tatum
Academic Title: Research Professor of Law & Associate Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program
E-mail:  Melissa L. Tatum
Office Number: RH 309
Office Phone: (520) 626-9762
Office Fax: (520) 626-1819
Courses Taught:
Conflicts of Law IPLP Colloquium Series
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Published Papers
Education
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (1992) 
Trinity University, B.A. (1989) 
Personal Work Experience
Research Professor of Law & Associate Dirrector, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2009
Professor of Law (previously Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, & Visiting Assistant Professor) , University of Tulsa College of Law, 1995 - 2009
Director, Dublin Study Abroad Program, University of Tulsa College of Law, Summer 2007; 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
Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?, 18 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. ___ (forthcoming 2010) (co-author, with Robert E. Spoo & Benjamin Pope).
Contributing Author, Best Practices for Enhancing Enforcement of Protection Orders in New Mexico (2009).
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).
Complete List of Publications
Presentations
Speaker, Why Everyone Needs to Know a Little Indian Law - It's Not Just for Specialists (Univ. Ariz. Faculty Enrichment Series, Tucson, Ariz., June 18, 2009). 
Speaker, Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community (6th Conf.on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Apr. 25, 2009). 
Speaker, Best Practices for Issuing and Enforcing Orders of Protection in New Mexico (Workshops, New Mexico Attorney General, various locations in N.M., Apr. - June 2009). 
Speaker, Inter-tribal Disputes: Who Has Jurisdiction (23rd Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conf., Univ. Wisc., Madison, Wisc., Mar. 27, 2009) (with Skip Durocher). 
Speaker, The Day the Universe Changed: Gideon, the Right to Counsel, & Tribal Jurisdiction (Mich. State Univ. Fifth Annual Indian Law Conference: 40 Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act, East Lansing, Mich., Oct. 2008). 
Complete List of Presentations
Public Service
Consultant, New Mexico Attorney General's Office Taskforce on Enforcement of Protection Orders 2007 - present
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
Personal Statement

Prof. Tatum manages ndnlawprof, an email discussion group for law faculty who teach and write in the area of Indian and Indigenous Peoples law.

   
       
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