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Carpenter, Kristen Ann

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  • Professor Carpenter's research focuses on the legal claims of Indigenous Peoples, especially with respect to issues of property, religion, culture, and human rights. She is the author or co-author of several books on these topics and her articles have been published in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Fordham Law Review and others. Professor Carpenter is also active in pro bono work on American Indian cultural and religious freedoms, and participation in tribal, federal, and international projects on these topics.

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  • Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, International Law, American Indian Law, Property, Cultural Property, Law and Religion, Law and culture

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Teaching

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  • LAWS 5624 - Property
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls.
  • LAWS 6602 - Cultural Property Law
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2020
    Concerns domestic and International regulation of property that expresses group identity and experience. Organized around traditional categories of property (real, personal and intellectual), covers historic preservation, archeological resources, art and museum law, with attention to indigenous people's advocacy on burial sites, traditional lands, ceremonies, music, symbols, ethnobotany, genetic information and language. May satisfy upper-level writing requirement.
  • LAWS 6808 - LILAC Symposium Course: Leadership in Law and Community
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Addresses issues in law, community, and leadership, explored through multiple pedagogies in teaching and learning, in a symposium-style setting. After introductory classes on the theme of leadership in law and community, and related topics of professional responsibility and personal identity, social change, creative lawyering, the course will turn to spring service projects in law and community.
  • LAWS 7715 - Indigenous Peoples in International Law
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Studies developments in the substance and procedure of international human rights law pertaining to indigenous peoples, examining these developments through varying perspectives, doctrinal and political, pragmatic and critical. Students will become familiar with indigenous peoples' involvement in the human rights movement both before and after WWII, and corresponding developments in the United Nations, Organization of American States, and other institutions.
  • LAWS 7725 - American Indian Law I
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Investigates the federal statutory, decisional and constitutional law that bears upon American Indians, tribal governments and Indian reservation transactions.
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