Robert A. Williams, Jr.

Robert A. Williams, Jr.

Robert A. Williams, Jr., is an American lawyer who is a notable author and legal scholar in the field of Federal Indian Law, International Law and Indigenous Peoples Rights, and Critical Race and Post Colonial Theory. [http://unjobs.org/authors/robert-a.-williams] Williams teaches at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of the Law, serving as the E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies and Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. [http://www.uwcle.org/triballeaders2003.htm ] He is also the project leader for ArizonaNativeNet; launched in 2006, ArizonaNativeNet is a virtual university devoted to the higher educational needs of Native Nations.cite web
url=http://www.law.arizona.edu/faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=40
title=Faculty profile: Robert A. Williams
publisher=University of Arizona
] An enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, Williams received his B.A. from Loyola College in 1977 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.

For the 2003-2004 academic year, Williams was named the first Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, having previously taught there as the Bennet Boskey Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Law. [http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/ils/faculty-and-courses/faculty/past-faculty/williams,-rober-a.-jr..html ]

Williams has served as Chief Justice for the Court of Appeals, Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, and as Justice for the Court of Appeals and trial judge pro tem for the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Williams has represented tribal groups before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples. He served as co-counsel for Floyd Hicks in the United States Supreme Court case, "Nevada v. Hicks" ussc|533|353|2001.

elected works

*"The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest" (Oxford University Press, 1990) (received the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Center Award as one of the outstanding books published in 1990 on the subject of prejudice in the United States) ISBN 0195050223
*"Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace", 1600-1800 (Oxford University Press, 1997). ISBN 0195065913
*"Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials" (5th ed., with David Getches and Charles Wilkinson) (West, 2004). ISBN 0314022686
*"Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America" (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). ISBN 0816647097 [ [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/williams_like.html Like a loaded weapon: the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/Depts/iplp/ Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program]
* [http://www.arizonanativenet.com/ ArizonaNativeNet]
* [http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A480 Native American Authors Project]


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