Lindsay Robertson

Prof. Lindsay Robertson is a Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, holding titles such as Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law and Sam K. Viersen Jr. Presidential Professor. She specializes in Federal Indian Law, Comparative Indigenous Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal History. As Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center and Associate Director of the Inter-American Center for Law and Culture, she leads initiatives addressing indigenous legal frameworks and policy.

Her research focuses on the intersection of indigenous rights and legal systems, including landmark cases like the Marshall Trilogy. She authored Conquest by Law (Oxford University Press, 2005), analyzing historical legal strategies against Native American sovereignty. Robertson has held roles as a judicial clerk, private practitioner, and Special Justice on the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes' Supreme Court.

During her 2014 ZIS guest professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, she delivered lectures on indigenous sovereignty and legal doctrines, highlighting global relevance of U.S. federal Indian law. Her work bridges historical legal analysis with contemporary policy challenges faced by indigenous nations.