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Robert B. Porter, Esq. serves as an Associate Professor at the
University of Kansas School of Law, an Adjunct Professor at Haskell
Indian Nations University, and Director of the Tribal Law and
Government Center, in which he founded.
He was recently appointed the first Chief Justice and head of
the Sax & Fox Nation tribal court system. His former positions
include Attorney General of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Associate
Attorney at Dickstein, Shapiro, & Mourin, and Summer Associate
at Baker & Hostetler.
Some of his publications include Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty
Through Peacemaking: How the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Destroys
Indigenous Societies, Tribal Lawyers as Sovereignty
Warriors, A Vision of Nation Building, and
Guide to the Judiciary. Works in progress include
Harmonizing Seneca Constitutionalism with the Haudenosaunnee
Great Law of Peace, A Proposal to Hanodaganears
to Adopt a Federal Indian Decolonization Policy, and Handbook
of Federal Indian Law. Forthcoming in 1998, look out
for Porter's Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Governmental
Reform: What Are the Issues?
Mr. Porter received his A.B. from Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and his J.D. from Harvard University School of Law.