Sarah Krakoff

Professor of Law, Wolf-Nichol Fellowship
Natural Resources Law; Civil Procedure; Indian Law

University of Colorado Law School
407 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Office: 407
Phone: (303) 492-2641
E-mail: sarah.krakoff@colorado.edu

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Educational Background:
J.D.	University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall	1991
B.A.	Yale University	1986	cum laude

Bio:
Sarah Krakoff is the Raphael J. Moses Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Her areas of expertise include American Indian law, natural resources and public land law, and environmental justice. She is the co-author of American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (with Bob Anderson and Bethany Berger), and co-editor of Tribes, Land, and Environment (with Ezra Rosser.) Professor Krakoff?s articles appear in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review, among other journals. She also runs the Law School?s Acequia Project, which provides free legal services to low-income farmers in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Professor Krakoff has authored amicus briefs in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Colorado Law tenure-track faculty, Professor Krakoff directed CU?s American Indian Law Clinic and secured permanent University funding to ensure the Clinic?s future. Professor Krakoff started her legal career at DNA-Peoples Legal Services on the Navajo Nation, where she initiated DNA?s Youth Law Project with an Equal Justice Works fellowship. She received her BA from Yale and her JD from U.C. Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Warren J. Ferguson on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Published Books

American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, Anderson, Berger, Krakoff & Frickey (3d Ed., 2015).

Tribes, Land and Environment, Sarah Krakoff & Ezra Rosser, eds, (Ashgate 2012).

American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, Robert Anderson, Bethany Berger, Philip Fricky & Sarah Krakoff (Thomson/West, 2d ed. 2010).

Krakoff (with George Cameron Coggins and John D. Leshy), Statutory Supplement to Federal Public Land and Resources Law, 2003-04 ed. (2004).

Articles

They Were Here First: American Indian Tribes, Race, and the Constitutional Minimum, 69 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2017).

Law, Violence, and the Neurotic Structure of American Indian Law, 49 Wake Forest L. Rev. 743 (2014).

Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race, 9 Florida International L. Rev. 295 (2014).

Settler Colonialism and Reclamation: Where American Indian Law and Natural Resources Law Meet, 24 Colo. Nat. Resources, Energy & Envtl. L. Rev. 261 (2013).

Planetarian Identity Formation and the Relocalization of Environmental Law, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 87 (2012).

Inextricably Political: Race, Membership and Tribal Sovereignty, 87 Washington Law Review 1041 (2012).

Radical Adaptation, Justice and American Indian Nations, 4 Environmental Justice 207 (2011).

The Last Indian Raid in Kansas: Context, Colonialism, and Philip P. Frickey's Contributions to American Indian Law, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 1253 (2010) (Tribute Issue in Honor of Philip P. Frickey).

Tribal Civil Jurisdiction over Nonmembers: A Practical guide for Judges, 81 Colorado Law Review 1187 (2010).

When and How to Analyze Climate Change under the National Environmental Policy Act (with Stuart C. Gillespie), 2010, No. 4, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute Paper (Oct., 2010).

Afterthoughts from a "Buzz Killer", 32 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 151 (2007-2008) (Conference Transcript: The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law) (2008).

American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World, 85 Denv. U. L. Rev. 865 (2008).

Conference Transcript: The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law (Taxation and Economic Development), 32 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 97 (2008).

Keeping an Eye on the Golden Snitch: Implications of the Interdisciplinary Approach in the Fourth Generation of Natural Resources Law Casebooks, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 751 (2007).

The Renaissance of Tribal Sovereignty, the Negative Doctrinal Feedback Loop, and the Rise of a New Exceptionalism, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 47 (2006).

The Virtues and Vices of Sovereignty, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 797 (2006).

A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation, 83 Or. L. Rev. 1109 (2005).

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Our Common Future, 53 Buff. L. Rev. 925 (2005).

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation: A Regretful Postscript to the Taxation Chapter in Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 5 (2005).

Settling the Wilderness, 75 Univ. of Colorado Law Review 1159 (2004).

Mountains Without Handrails -- Wilderness Without Cell Phones, 27 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 417 (2003).

Undoing Indian Law One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism and Tribal Sovereignty, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 1177 (2001).

Does "Law and Literature" Survive Lawyerland?, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 1742 (2001).

Indian Child Welfare Act: Keeping Families Together and Minimizing Litigation, 30 Colorado Lawyer 81 (2001).

Book Chapters

Sustainability and Justice, in Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, Jessica Owley & Keith H. Hirokawa, Eds., 199-227 (Eli, 2015).

Krakoff (with Jon-Daniel Lavallee), Natural Resource Development and Indigenous Peoples, in Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies 199 (Randall S. Abate ed., 2013).

Parenting the Planet, in The Ethics of Global Climate Change 145, Denis G. Arnold, ed. (Cambridge U. Press, 2011).

Mark the Plumber v. Tribal Empire, or Non-Indian Anxiety v. Tribal Sovereignty?: The Story of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, in Indian Law Stories 261, C. Goldberg, K. Washburn & P. Frickey, eds. (Foundation Press, 2011).

Ethical Perspectives on Resources Law and Policy: Global Warming and Our Common Future, in The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy 29 (Lawrence J. MacDonnell & Sarah F. Bates eds., 2010).

Healing the West with Taxes: The Navajo Nation and the Enactment of Sovereignty, in Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories and Cultures, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell & Sharon K. Collinge, eds. (U. of Arizona Press) (2009).

Repairing Reparations in the American Indian Nation Context, (with Kristen Carpenter) in "Reparations to Indigenous Peoples in Comparative and International Law," Oxford University Press (2008).

Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice, in (Bryner, Kenney and Mutz, eds.) Justice and Natural Resources (2001).

Courses:

Fall 2016	Foundations of Natural Resources Law and Policy	LAWS 6112-001
Spring 2016	Advanced Topics in American Indian Law	LAWS 8725-001
Fall 2015	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5303-803
Fall 2015	American Indian Law I	LAWS 7725-001
Spring 2015	American Indian Law II	LAWS 7735-001
Spring 2015	Advanced Natural Resources Law	LAWS 8112-001
Fall 2014	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5303-803
Fall 2012	Foundations of Natural Resources Law and Policy	LAWS 6112-002
Fall 2012	American Indian Law I	LAWS 7725-001