Lorie M. Graham

Biography

Co-director, International Law Concentration, 2012-present; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, Spring 2019, Spring 2015 and Spring 2014; Professor, Suffolk University Law School, 1999-present; Visiting Professor, Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998-1999; Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Spring 1998; Program Director, Harvard University Native American Program, 1995-1997; Attorney, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, 1992-1994; Law Clerk, Judge Richard D. Simons, New York State Court of Appeals, 1990-1992.

Education

• BS, JD Syracuse University
• LLM, Harvard University

Publications

Articles

• Intellectual Property's First Sale Doctrine and the Policy Against Restraints On Alienation, Texas A&M Law Review (forthcoming 2019) (with Stephen McJohn)
• Human Rights and Education, in Rethinking Education: A Human Rights Perspective, NORTHEASTERN UNIV. L. J. (2016)
• If Truth be Told, Editorial, The Hill, June 25, 2015 at http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/civil-rights/245996-if-truth-be-told
• The UN has an Obligation to Act in Syria (Op-Ed), LA TIMES (2014)
• Human Rights to Culture, Family, and Self-Determination: The Case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (with Kristen Carpenter)
• Review of "Intellectual Liberty, Natural Rights and Intellectual Property, 23 :12 LAW & POLITICS BOOK REVIEW (2013) (with Stephen McJohn)
• A Dialogical Approach to Trade and Environment, 16 :3 J. INT'L ECON. L. (forthcoming 2013)
• Reconciling Collective and Individual Rights: Indigenous Education and International Human Rights Law, 15 UCLA J. INT'L. L. & FOREIGN AFF. 83 (2012)
• Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment, YALE HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT DIALOGUES (2011) (with Nicole Friederichs)
• Thirty-Two Short Stories about Intellectual Property, 3 HASTINGS SCI. & TECH. L.J. 1 (2011) (with Stephen McJohn)
• Indigenous Sovereignty, Culture, and International Human Rights Law, 110 S. ATLANTIC Q. 403 (2011) (with Siegfried Wiessner)
• A Right to Media?, 41 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 429 (2010)
• Cognition, Law, Stories, 10 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 255 (2009) (with Stephen McJohn)
• Reparations, Self-Determination, and the Seventh Generation, 21 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 47 (2008)
• The Racial Discourse of Federal Indian Law, 42 TULSA L. REV. 103 (2007) (reviewing Robert A. Williams', Jr., Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America (2005)).
• Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property, 19 WASH. U.J.L. & POL'Y. 313 (2006) (co-authored with Stephen McJohn)
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to American Indian Economic Development, 80 N.D.L. REV. 597 (2005)
• Resolving Indigenous Claims to Self-Determination, 10 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 385 (2004)
• Duane Champagne and Ismael Abu-Saad's The Future of Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Survival and Development, 3 HOLY LAND STUDIES 120 (2004) (book review)
• Securing Economic Sovereignty Through Agreement, 37 NEW ENG. L. REV. 523 (2003)
• Reparations and the Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 LEGAL STUD. F. 619 (2001)
• Self-Determination for Indigenous Peoples After Kosovo: Translating Self-Determination , 6 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 455 (2000)
• "The Past that Never Vanishes": A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian Family Doctrine, 23 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 1 (1998)
• Aristotle’s Ethics and the Virtuous Lawyer: A Study on Legal Ethics and Clinical Legal Education, 20 J. LEGAL PROF. 5 (1996)

Books

• HUMAN RIGHTS: SYSTEMS AND LAWS (Wolters Kluwer, forthcoming)
• EDUCATION, MEDIA, AND THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (Carolina Press, 2018) (with Amy Van Zyl-Chavarro)
• FUNDAMENTALS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (with Stephen McJohn) (2015, American Bar Association Publishing)
• INTERNATIONAL LAW, EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (2nd Edition, 2014) (with Valerie Epps)
• INTERNATIONAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (Aspen, 2011) (with Valerie Epps)

Book Chapters

• Education Rights and the UN Declaration, in OXFORD COMMENTARY ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (Oxford University Press, 2018).
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Economic Development, in A HANDBOOK FOR NATIVE AMERICAN PLANNING: TOWARDS AN INDIGENOUS MODEL OF TRIBAL RESERVATION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2013)
• Reparations, Self Determination, and the Seventh Generation, in THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT AT 30 FACING THE FUTURE (Michigan Press, 2009)
• Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property, in TRADITIONAL AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: IP PERSPECTIVE (2008) (with Stephen McJohn)
• Chapter: Economic Development in Indian Country, in FELEX S. COHEN'S HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW (2005)
• "The Past that Never Vanishes": A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian Family Doctrine, in MIXED RACE AMERICA AND THE LAW (Kevin R. Johnson ed., 2003)
• Aristotle's Ethics and the Virtuous Lawyer, in PHILOSOPHERS AND LAW SERIES: ARISTOTLE AND MODERN LAW (Richard D. Brooks and James B. Murphy eds., 2003) (Richard D. Brooks and James B. Murphy, eds.)
• In Caleb's Footsteps: The Harvard University Native American Program, in NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MODELS FOR COLLABORATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND INDIGENOUS NATIONS (Duane Champagne and Jay Stauss eds., 2002) (with Peter Golia)

Bar Admittance

• MA
• NY