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Grant Christensen

Professor Grant Christensen is an Associate Professor of Law and an Affiliated Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota. He also serves as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and as the co-chair of the American Bar Association Business Law’s committee on Tribal Litigation. He earned his J.D. from Ohio State and his LL.M. in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona. He is the co-author of Reading American Indian Law: Foundational Principles from Cambridge University Press (along with Melissa Tatum). Prior to joining the faculty at North Dakota he taught Federal Indian Law as a Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo.