Melissa L. Tatum - Publications

Publications

• Tribal Courts: Tensions Between Efforts to Develop Tribal Common Law and Pressures to Harmonize with State and Federal Courts, published in HARMONIZING LAW IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: CONVERGENCE, DIVERGENCE AND RESISTANCE (ed. Larry Backer, Carolina Academic Press 2005). ISBN 0-89089-585-6

• General Editor, Mvskoke Law Reporter (an eight volume series, compiling, indexing, and digesting the court decisions of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from 1832–present) (OWC Press 2006) ISBN: Vol. 1 – 0977320707; Vol. 2 - 0977320715; Vol. 3 – 0977320723; Vol. 4 – 0977320731; Vol. 5 - 097732074X; Vol. 6 – 0977320758; Vol. 7 – 0977320766; Vol. 8 – 0977320774

• General Editor, Navajo Reporter volume 8 (OWC Press 2008)

• General Editor, Navajo Reporter volumes 1 and 2 (second editions)(OWC Press 2009)

• The Little Black Book: A Do-It Yourself Manual for Law Student Competitions (Carolina Academic Press 2002) (co-authored with B. Bucholtz and M. Frey) ISBN 0-89089-512-0

• Contributing Author, COHEN’S HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW (Lexis 2005) ISBN 0-87215-413-0

• Tribal Efforts To Comply with VAWA’s Full Faith and Credit Requirements: A Response to Sandra Schmieder, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 403 (2004)(co-authored with Sarah Deer)

• Law Enforcement Authority in Indian Country: Challenges Presented by the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 4 Tribal L. J. (2004)

• Establishing Penalties for Violating Protection Orders: What Tribal Governments Need to Know, 13 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 123 (2003)

• A Jurisdictional Quandary: Challenges Facing Tribal Governments in Implementing the Full Faith and Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Acts, 90 Kentucky Law Journal 123 (2001–2002)

• Group Identity: Changing the Outsider’s Perspective, 10 G.M.U. Civil Rights Law Journal 357 (Summer 2000)

• The New American Caste System: The Supreme Court and Discrimination Between Civil Rights Plaintiffs, 32 Mich. J. L. Reform 49 (1998)(published as Melissa L. Koehn) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1086091

• Civil Jurisdiction: The Boundaries Between Federal and Tribal Courts, 29 Ariz. State L. J. 705 (1997)(published as Melissa L. Koehn)

• Symposium Foreword, Incorporating Indian Law into Other Law School Courses, 37 Tulsa L. Rev. 481 (Winter 2001)