Angela Riley

Biography

Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is the Goldberg Endowed Professor of Native American Law at UCLA where she serves as Special Advisor to the Chancellor and directs the Native Nations Law and Policy Center. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and her law degree from Harvard. She was raised on a working farm within the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache Indian reservation in Southwest Oklahoma. She became the first woman and youngest Justice of her tribe’s Supreme Court in 2003 and has served as Chief Justice since 2010. Professor Riley is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Law Institute. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and others. She has delivered lectures on Indigenous rights around the world.

Publications

Before Mine!: Indigenous Property Rights for Jagenagenon, 136 Harv. L. Rev. 2074 (2023). Reviewing: Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, by Michael Heller and James Salzman, New York, NY (Doubleday 2021).

The Ascension of Indigenous Cultural Property Law, 121 Mich. L. Rev. 75 (2022).

Mapping Dual Sovereignty in Indian Country Prosecutions (with S. Thompson), 122 Colum. L. Rev. 1899 (2022).

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration (with Kristen A. Carpenter), 109 California Law Review 63 (2021).

Privatizing the Reservation? (with Kristen Carpenter), 71 Stanford Law Review 791 (2019).

Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation (with Kristen Carpenter), 94 Texas Law Review 859 (2016).

Indigenous Peoples and the Jurisgenerative Moment in Human Rights (with K. Carpenter), 102 California Law Review 173 (2014).

In Defense of Property (with K. Carpenter & S. Katyal), 118 Yale Law Journal 1022 (2009).

Education

B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1995
J.D., Harvard, 1998