On April 22, 2016, the University of Oklahoma, College of Law played host to the first International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment symposium. Professor of Law Lindsay Robertson has been a driving force behind the development of the IITIO and the establishment of the the University being the first to host the IITIO symposium.
Lindsay G. Robertson
IITIO Vice-Chair (Conferences)
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law
Sam K. Viersen Family Foundation Presidential Professor
A.B, Davidson College, 1981
M.A, University of Virginia, 1986
J.D, University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
Ph.D, University of Virginia, 1997
Professor Lindsay G. Robertson joined the law faculty in 1997. He teaches courses in Federal Indian Law, Comparative and International Indigenous Peoples Law, Constitutional Law and Legal History and serves as Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy and Founding Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic.
Professor Lindsay G. Robertson was Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Department of State delegations to the Working Groups on the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2004-06) and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2004-07) and from 2010-12 was a member of the U.S Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2014, he served as advisor on Indigenous Peoples Law to the Chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. He has spoken widely on international and comparative Indigenous Peoples Law issues in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
In 2014, Lindsay Robertson was the recipient of the first David L. Boren Award for Outstanding Global Engagement. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Professor Robertson is the author of Conquest by Law (Oxford University Press 2005).
