Native American Studies: Faculty

Professor Duthu

Name: N. Bruce Duthu (e-mail)

Title: Adjunct Associate Professor in Native American Studies

Brief Biography: Enrolled member, United Houma Nation of Louisiana; J.D. Loyola University School of Law (New Orleans, LA), 1983; BA Dartmouth College, 1980 (Major in Religion, certificate in NAS)

Courses Taught: NAS 50/GOV 69

Following a brief career as a trial lawyer in New Orleans, Bruce Duthu returned to Dartmouth in 1986 to serve as Director of Dartmouth's Native American Program. In 1989, he was named Associate Dean of Freshman and Director of the Intensive Academic Support Program. During these years, Professor Duthu also developed and taught a course in Native Americans & the Law. In 1991, he joined the regular faculty at Vermont Law School. He has continued to offer the course on Native Americans & the Law in his capacity as Adjunct Associate Professor of NAS. He has published widely in various law journals and other scholarly publications, both within the US and abroad. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the Arizona State University Law Review, LOUISIANA HISTORY, the Indigenous Law Bulletin (legal journal of the Indigenous Law Centre of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia). Professor Duthu has visited at several universities, including serving as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Parsons Visitor at University of Sydney Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia and Visiting Fellow at the University of Wollongong Faculty of Law, Australia. His emerging work in comparative law relating to Indigenous Peoples has recently led him to present a series of lectures at Petrozavodsk State University in the Russian Republic of Karelia. He continues to advise tribal leaders and tribal governments on various legal matters relating to Federal Indian law.

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