Kevin Gover is a member of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. After graduating from Princeton University, where he majored in Public and International Affairs, Professor Gover attended the University Of New Mexico School Of Law. Private practice followed, first with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman in Washington, D.C., and later with Gover, Stetson & Williams in Albuquerque. In 1997, Professor Gover was selected by President Clinton to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. After leaving government in 2001, Professor Gover was a partner in Steptoe & Johnson, LLP. In addition to his teaching duties, Professor serves as Co-Executive Director with Dr. Eddie Brown of the American Indian Policy and Leadership Development Center at ASU. He also serves as a Judge for the Tonto Apache Tribal Court of Appeals and the San Carlos Apache Tribal Court of Appeals, as well as on the Boards of Directors of Verde Valley School and Futures for Children, Inc.
Publications:
“Statutes as Sources of Indian Rights: Child Welfare, Gaming, and Repatriation,” to be published in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflict, and Sovereignty, edited by Dr. Donald Fixico, ABC-CLIO publisher (June 2007)
Environmental Regulation in Indian Country, 52 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 20-1 (2006).
An Indian Trust for the 21st Century, 46 Nat. Resources J. 317 (2006).
Federal Indian Policy in the 21st Century, published in the proceedings of Confluence of Cultures II: The Journey Continues, Symposium at the University of Great Falls (July 2005).
Survey of Tribal Actions to Protect Water Quality and the Implementation of the Tribal Amendments to the Clean Water Act, Report to the National Indian Policy Center, September, 1994.
Commercial Solid and Hazardous Waste Disposal Projects on Indian Lands, 10 Yale J. of Reg. 229 (1993) (Co-author with Jana Walker).
Tribal Environmental Regulation, 36 Federal Bar News & Journal 438 (1989) (Co-author with Jana Walker).
Avoiding Santa Clara v. Martinez: The Litigation in Federal Court of Civil Actions Under the Indian Civil Rights Act, 8 Hamline L. Rev. 543 (1985) (Co-author with Robert Laurence).
Note, Conflicts of Laws and the Indian Reservation: Solutions to Problems in Indian Civil Jurisdiction, 8 Am. Indian. L. Rev. 361 (1981).
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