Rate My Professor Rebecca Tsosie

Since 2016, Tsosie has served as Regents’ Professor and, since 2022, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where she co-chairs the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Her research interests encompass tribal sovereignty, self-determination, cultural rights, environmental justice, climate change, epistemic injustice, and indigenous data sovereignty. Key publications include co-authorship of the casebook American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (8th ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2025; 7th ed., 2015), “Tribal Data Governance and Informational Privacy: Constructing ‘Indigenous Data Sovereignty’” (Montana Law Review, 2019), and “Justice as Healing: Native Nations and Reconciliation” (Arizona State Law Journal, 2022), alongside numerous book chapters on cultural sustainability and reconciliation. Honors include the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education Individual Leadership Award (2014), election to the American Law Institute (2007), American Bar Association Spirit of Excellence Award (2002), and Native American Bar Association of Arizona Lifetime Achievement Award (2024). Tsosie serves as Associate Justice on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Supreme Court (2008-present) and formerly on the San Carlos Apache Court of Appeals (2007-2024).