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The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has hired two new faculty members who have joined the college at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year.
Professor Keith Richotte, Jr. (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) joins as the new director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) Program. He will also teach “Indigenous Legal Thought” in which students will explore how Indigenous thinkers have examined, critiqued and reimagined both the law of the colonizer and the law of their peoples in the modern world.
Keith’s research focuses on American federal Indian law and policy and tribal law. He is author of “Federal Indian Law and Policy: An Introduction” and “Claiming Turtle Mountain’s Constitution: The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation’s Founding Documents.” His next book, available February 2025, is an Indigenous examination of the plenary power doctrine through the lens of the trickster story and harkens to his interest in Indigenous legal thought and the class he will be teaching at Arizona Law this academic year.
“I am deeply enthused to be joining a law school and a program that has evidenced a clear dedication to the Indigenous world. It is invigorating to be part of an environment that is engaged with Indigenous issues at the local, national and international level,” says Keith. He has served his tribal nation, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, as an associate justice on the appellate court since 2009 and also serves as the chief justice of the appellate court of the Spirit Lake Nation.
Oren Tamir joins as associate professor of law and will teach administrative law and constitutional law. His research and teaching interests include public law, constitutional law and administrative law, with a strong focus on comparative law.
“One of the things that makes joining the Arizona Law community particularly exciting is how diverse and multicultural it is,” says Oren. “I have deep interest in studying divergent cultures and laws. I have always been fascinated by the fact that countries’ institutions and laws are sometimes similar and sometimes different, and what reasons might be that can make sense of that as well as justify it, or what opportunities there are for cross-national learning (and even reform).”
Oren joins us from Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law, where he was a post-doctoral fellow and an adjunct professor. Prior to that, he graduated from Harvard Law School with an SJD and an LLM and served as an assistant attorney-general in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Israeli Department of Justice and a clerk for then Associate Justice Esther Hayut on the Israeli Supreme Court.
To learn more about our new faculty, see the full story here.
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