W. Tanner Allread (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is the Richard M. Milanovich Fellow in Law at UCLA School of Law. His research lies in federal Indian law, tribal law, Indigenous legal history, and constitutional law. His current projects focus on early nineteenth-century Native American history, with a specific interest in the creation of the first tribal constitutions and the sovereignty arguments deployed during the era of southern Indian Removal. Allread’s publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and the Journal of the Early Republic. His work has also received several recognitions, including the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation’s Legal History Article of the Year Prize and the American Society for Legal History’s Kathryn T. Preyer Award.

Prior to coming to UCLA, Allread clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also provided legal assistance in Indian Country, previously working for Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, the law firm of Kanji & Katzen, and the Yurok Tribe’s Office of the Tribal Attorney.

Allread received his B.A. with distinction in History from Yale University, his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review, the president of the Native American Law Students Association, and the recipient of the Stanford Legal History Paper Prize.

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