Dr. Angela Riley

Biography

Angela R. Riley is a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she holds the Goldberg Endowed Chair in Native American Law. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and has served as a Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Native American Indigenous Affairs at UCLA. Her research primarily focuses on Indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance, and she has published extensively in the nation's leading legal journals. Riley is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Harvard Law School. She became the youngest woman to serve as Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in 2003, later serving as Chief Justice in 2010. Additionally, she was Co-Chair of the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Policy Board and currently serves as a member of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization’s Indigenous Caucus. Riley is also an Appellate Justice for the Rincon Band Luiseño Indians Court of Appeals and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Court of Appeals, and she is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Philosophical Society.

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