Ph.D., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
M.A., Victoria University in New Zealand
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University

Civil Procedure
American Indian Law

Carlson most recently served as a staff attorney at the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, Mont., with a practice focusing on international and national advocacy to protect the rights of Indian nations to self-government, their lands, cultures and environments. Before that, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa, a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. Diana E. Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Carlson is secretary/treasurer of the Michigan State Bar Association’s Indian Law Section and a past recipient of a National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Dissertation Research Grant and the American Bar Association’s Henry J. Ramsey Diversity Award.

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"Natural Allies: Conservationists, Indian Tribes, and Protecting Native North America," in Sarah Krakoff and Ezra Rosser, Eds., Tribes, Land, and the Environment (forthcoming 2012) (with Robert T. Coulter).

"Is Hindsight 20-20? Reconsidering the Importance of Pre-Constitutional Documents," 30 Am. Indian. L. Rev. 1 (2005-2006).

"Does Constitutional Change Matter? Canada’s Recognition of Aboriginal Title," 22 Ariz. J. Int'l Comp. L. 449 (2005) (distributed to over 1000 practitioners and scholars at the 2010 Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference).

"Note, Towards Tribal Sovereignty and Judicial Efficiency: Ordering the Defenses of Tribal Sovereign Immunity and Exhaustion of Tribal Remedies," 101 Mich. L. Rev. 569 (2002) (Second Place, National NALSA Annual Writing Competition).

Book Reviews, Symposium Pieces and Other Shorter Works

Book Review, American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations (Edited by Eric D. Lemont), 27(1) Journal of American Ethnic History 89 (Fall 2007).

Commentary: "In Pursuit of Tribal Economic Development as a Substitute for Reservation Tax Revenue," 80 N.D. L. Rev. 809 (2004) (symposium).

Contributing author, Amicus Brief in support of the University of Michigan in Grutter v. Bollinger on behalf of the Black Law Students’ Alliance, Latino Law Students Association, Native American Law Students Association, and Asian Pacific American Students Association, submitted to the United States Supreme Court, February 18, 2003, 10 Mich. J. Gender & Law 1 (2003).

Notice, "Premature Predictions of Multiculturalism?," 100 Mich. L. Rev. 1470 (2002).

"Placing the Waitangi Tribunal: Attitudes Towards the Claims Settlement Process in New Zealand." In Critic & Conscience: Conference Proceedings of the 5th National Postgraduate Conference (1998).