Kristen Carpenter is Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. With colleagues at the Native American Rights Fund, Carpenter is co-director of The Implementation Project, which advances the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through education and advocacy. She also serves as a Justice of the Shawnee Tribe Supreme Court. Professor Carpenter served as senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland from 2023 to 2025, focusing on international issues affecting Indigenous Peoples. She was previously chair and member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Carpenter is a co-author of casebooks on federal Indian law and Indigenous Peoples in international law, and many law review articles.
Presenting in the following sessions:
Nov 14, 2025
10:30-11:45 AM
Session 6
1.25 MCLE
The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Join Gregory Bigler, Kristen Carpenter, and Harrison Rice for a question-and-answer dialogue on the history of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, its content, and its importance to tribal law practice. They will discuss the international bodies that interact with Indigenous Peoples and explore how the Declaration can be used domestically.
