Torey Dolan is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She was formerly a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her scholarship focuses on Tribal Nations, Democracy, and American Indian self-determination and political actualization in the intersections of Federal Indian Law and Election Law. Dolan has contributed to several law reviews, including co-authoring a piece for the Boston University Law Review. Her scholarship also includes an article on Indian citizenship and franchise in the University of Idaho Law Review and a piece on voting by mail in Indian Country in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 

Prior to receiving the Hastie Fellowship, Dolan was a Native Vote Fellow with the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Indian Legal Clinic, where she helped lead the Arizona Native Vote Election Protection Project through the 2020 and 2022 election cycles. She has assisted in litigation on matters pertaining to Tribal sovereignty, the Voting Rights Act, and state election law before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court of Arizona, and the Superior Court of Apache and Pinal Counties in Arizona. 

Dolan received her J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, along with a certificate in Federal Indian Law. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Davis. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. 

• Introduction to Federal Indian Law, Tribal Sovereignty and Treaties
• Review the legal basics of Tribal Governments
• Gain a better understanding of the 11 federally recognized American Indian Tribes in Wisconsin

• Understand the historical context and evolution of federal Indian law
• Learn about tribal sovereignty, the extent of tribal self-governance, and the jurisdictional boundaries between tribal, federal, and state authorities
• Gain insights into the authority and operation of tribal courts
• Recognize the unique legal traditions and laws of different Native nations, and how they coexist with federal and state laws
• Engage more effectively with Native American legal matters and communities

• New lawyers
• Solo and small firm practitioners
• Family lawyers
• Estate planning lawyers
• Real estate lawyers
• Civil rights and constitutional lawyers
• Administrative, municipal, and local government lawyers
• Environmental lawyers
• Indian law attorneys
• Public interest law attorneys
• Tribal court judges, attorneys, administrators, and staff

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