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Personal Summary

Monte Mills is a Professor and Co-Director of the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú. He teaches a variety of courses, including Federal Indian Law; Race, Racism, and American Law; and Employment Law, along with other classes focused on Indian and tribal law-related topics. He also works with clinical students on a range of legal matters in the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic.

Monte's research and writing focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian Law, Tribal sovereignty, and natural resources as well as race and racism in the law and legal education. Recently, along with Prof. Hillary Hoffmann (Vermont Law School), Monte authored , which was published by Cambridge University Press in July 2020. Monte's written work has also appeared in , , the , the , and , among other forums.

Prior to joining the faculty at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú, Monte was the Director of the Legal Department for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in Colorado, an in-house counsel department that he helped organize and implement in 2005 following completion of a unique two-year in-house attorney training program. As Director of the Tribe's Legal Department, Monte represented and counseled the Tribe on a broad array of issues, including litigation in tribal, state and federal courts, legislative matters before the Colorado General Assembly and the United States Congress, and internal tribal matters such as contracting, code-drafting, and gaming issues.

Education

J.D., University of Colorado (2003)

B.A., Lewis & Clark College (1999)

Courses Taught

Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic

Race, Racism, and American Law (co-taught with Professor Andrew King-Ries) []

The Law of People and Place (field course co-taught with Prof. Michelle Bryan in collaboration with ) []

Tribal Law Advocacy (co-taught with Professor Kekek Stark) []

Indigenous Cultural Preservation []

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Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Economic Development in ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú (Field Trip) []

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Tribal State Relations []

Selected Publications

Starting at the Start: Integrating Race and Reflection for an Antiracist Approach to Professional Identity Development in the First-Year Curriculum (with Eduardo R.C. Capulong & Andrew King-Ries), in  (2021).

, Regulatory Review (U.Penn. Program on Regulation), March 16, 2021.

, with Dr. Martin Nie, Professor of Natural Resources Policy and Director, Bolle Center for People and Forests in the W.A Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú, 44 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 49 (2021).

 (with Prof. Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely, University of Idaho School of Law), Natural Resources Law Insights, Rocky Mtn. Min. Law Found. (Aug. 2020).

(with Hillary Hoffmann) (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Publications

, ; A Tribal Nation Building Colloquium sponsored by Harvard Project on Indian Economic Development and the University of Oklahoma Native Nations Center.

, ; A Tribal Nation Building Colloquium sponsored by Harvard Project on Indian Economic Development and the University of Oklahoma Native Nations Center.

 (with Profs. Eduardo R.C. Capulong and Andrew King-Ries), 18 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 3 (2021).

 to  (Carolina Press, 4th ed. 2018) (with co-authors Michael C. Blumm (Lewis & Clark) and Elizabeth Kronk Warner (Utah)).

. 2019 ABA SEER Annual Conference, September 11-14, 2019.

 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (2019).

‘, (with Profs. Eduardo R.C. Capulong and Andrew King-Ries) 21 The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice 1 (2019).

, High Country News (March 27, 2019).

, , Chap. 7, Mineral Law Series Volume 2018, Number 5 (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn., Oct. 2018).

, 64 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 9-1 (2018).

, The Conversation (April 13, 2018).

, Billings Gazette (March 19, 2018).

, Berkley Forum (Feb. 20, 2018).

, The Conversation (Feb. 14, 2017).

, The Jurist (Apr. 12, 2017).

, Am. Indian L. J., Vol. 6, Iss. 1, Article 2 (2017)

, Pub Land & Res. L. J. Special Issue 1 (2017).

, in Indian Law and Natural Resources: The Basics and Beyond 1-1 (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn. 2017).

, 63 Fed. Law., April 2016, at 50.

, 37 Pub. Land & Res. L. J. 1 (2016).

Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association

Member, State bars of ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú and Colorado, Federal bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, Tenth Circuit, and the District of Colorado, Tribal bar of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe (inactive)

Professional Experience

Director, Legal Department, Southern Ute Indian Tribe (2005-2015)

Associate/In-House Attorney Trainee, Maynes, Bradford, Shipps & Sheftel, Durango, Colorado (2003-2005)

Research Assistant, Professor Charles F. Wilkinson (2001-2003)

Honors / Awards

ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú University System (MUS) Teaching Scholar (2020-21)

Margery Hunter Brown Faculty Merit Award (2016, 2019)