Kevin K. Washburn

Kevin K. Washburn is the Rosenstiel Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law. He is a former federal prosecutor, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Life and Work

While serving as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washburn successfully argued "Montana v. EPA", in which the Ninth Circuit upheld the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize the Salish & Kootenai Tribes as a state for purposes of setting water quality standards under the Clean Water Act. [See Montana v. EPA, 137 F.3d 1135 (9th Cir. 1998). ] Washburn also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in New Mexico. [See http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328] .< ]

Much of Washburn's scholarship focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian law and criminal law. [See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714] .] [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714] In one of his articles, he focuses on the federal criminal justice system that applies on Indian reservations and the federal constitutional values of criminal procedure. [See Indians, Crime and the Law, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 709 (2006).] [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714] In another piece, Washburn writes about the federalized criminal justice system and federal Indian policy involving Native American self-determination. [See Federal Criminal Law and Tribal Self-Determination, 84 No. Carolina L. Rev. 779 (2006). ] [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714] His groundbreaking work in this field was discussed at length in a piece in the High Country News. [See http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17455] In July 2008, Senator Byron Dorgan introduced S. 3320: Tribal Law and Order Act of 2008 in an attempt to fix some of the problems highlighted in Washburn's scholarship. [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-3320] Washburn is one of the country's leading experts on Gaming Law. He served as the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) from January of 2000 to July of 2002. [ See http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328] . ] In addition, he is the author of a forthcoming law school casebook on Gaming Law and Regulation that will be published by Aspen Publishers in 2009. He frequently testifies before Congress and the courts on issues involving Indian gaming. While visiting at Harvard Law School during the 2007-08 academic year, Professor Washburn taught the first course on Gaming/Gambling Law in that school’s history. [See http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328] .< ]

Education

Washburn received a B.A. in economics, with honors, from the University of Oklahoma in 1989. Professor Washburn earned his law degree at Yale Law School in 1993, and was the Editor-In-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation. After graduating from law school, Professor Washburn clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [See generally, http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328] .]

Affiliations

Elected member of the American Law Institute; Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council; Executive Editor of Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law; Member of the Criminal Law and Procedure Drafting Committee for the National Conference of Bar Examiners; Enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian nation. [See generally, http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328] .]

References

External links

* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=328 Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714 Scholarly Articles]
* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/Depts/iplp/ Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program]
* [http://www.arizonanativenet.com/ ArizonaNativeNet]