UCLA Law Professor to Discuss Indigenous Rights
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Angela Riley, visiting professor of law at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), will give a lecture titled, "Indigenous Peoples in a Multicultural World." The lecture will take place at 8 p.m., Nov. 5, in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.The talk is sponsored by the Oakley Center and the W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public.
Riley teaches and writes about indigenous people's rights with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Riley explains that her writing is a form of "advocacy to advance the issues I care about." She has focused her recent studies on the protection of Native American intellectual and cultural property.
She received her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1995 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998.
Riley left private practice in 2002 to serve as a teaching scholar at the Santa Clara University School of Law. In 2003, Riley was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. The court hears civil and criminal appeals from the Tribal District Court. Riley is the first female and youngest justice to serve on the court. In 2007, she was named as the Irving D. and Florence Rosenhern Professor of Law at UCLA.
Riley is former co-chair of the Native American Law Students Association at Harvard.
