Legal History Roundtable with W. Tanner Allread (Harvard Law School)

About

W. Tanner Allread (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He writes and teaches in the areas of federal Indian law, tribal law, Indigenous legal history, constitutional law, and property.

Professor Allread’s current projects focus on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Native American history, with a specific interest in tribal constitutions and the intersections between tribal governance and federal law’s recognition of Native sovereignty. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, the Journal of the Early Republic, and several edited volumes. His work has also received several recognitions, including the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation’s Legal History Article of the Year Prize and the American Society for Legal History’s Kathryn T. Preyer Award.

Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Allread was the Richard M. Milanovich Fellow in Law at UCLA School of Law. He clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has also provided legal assistance throughout Indian Country, previously working for Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, the law firm of Kanji & Katzen, and the Yurok Tribe’s Office of the Tribal Attorney.

Professor Allread has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. He received his B.A. with distinction in History from Yale University. He is also an alumnus of the American Indian Law Center’s Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives, and prior to law school, he was a middle school science teacher in Oklahoma City.