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Angela Riley
Visiting Professor
Acting Associate Director, UCLA American Indian Studies Center
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1995
J.D., Harvard, 1998
riley@law.ucla.edu |
Angela Riley has been a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA since 2008, teaching courses in Property, Cultural Property, American Indian Law, and Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Resources.
Professor Riley teaches and writes in the area of indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Her work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, Washington Law Review and others. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and her law degree from Harvard Law School. After clerking for Chief Judge T. Kern of the Northern District of Oklahoma, she worked as a litigator at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles, specializing in intellectual property litigation. Professor Riley joined Southwestern Law School, where she is currently a Professor of Law, in 2003. That same year she was selected to serve on her tribe’s Supreme Court, becoming the first woman and youngest Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. She is also an Evidentiary Hearing Officer for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. The students of Southwestern voted her Professor of the Year in 2007, and she was named the Rosenberg Professor of Law in 2007-08.
