Rate My Professor Adam Crepelle

Adam Crepelle is a Term Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and Director of the Tribal Law & Economics Project at the Law & Economics Center. An enrolled citizen of the United Houma Nation, he earned his J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 2013, receiving the CALI Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and the Chancellor's Leadership Award; LL.M. in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona in 2018; Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University School of Public Policy in 2015 as valedictorian and Editor-in-Chief of the Pepperdine Policy Review; and B.S. in Exercise Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2009. His academic interests focus on federal Indian law, tribal economic development, property rights in Indian Country, and criminal justice reform.

Professor Crepelle's key publications include "The Law and Economics of Crime in Indian Country," 110 Geo. L.J. 569 (2022); "Getting Smart About Tribal Commercial Law: How Smart Contracts Can Transform Tribal Economies," 45 Del. J. Corp. L. (2022); "Tribes, Vaccines, and COVID-19: A Look at Tribal Responses to the Pandemic," 49 Fordham Urb. L.J. 31 (2021); "The Time Trap: Addressing the Stereotypes that Undermine Tribal Sovereignty," 53 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 189 (2021); "How Federal Indian Law Prevents Business Development in Indian Country," 23 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 683 (2021); and "White Tape and Indian Wards: Removing the Federal Bureaucracy to Empower Tribal Economies and Self-Government," 54 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 563 (2021). A co-authored article, "Community Policing on American Indian Reservations," received the 2023 Elinor Ostrom Prize. He serves as Associate Justice on the Court of Appeals for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe since 2019, Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2021, and Research Fellow at the Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh. Awards include the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development 40 under 40 Award (2019) and United Houma Nation Advocate Award (2012). Professor Crepelle has presented extensively on tribal law, economics, and policy at universities, conferences, and tribal events.