Kevin WashburnAssociate Professor of LawUniversity of Oklahoma, B.A. Professor Kevin K. Washburn teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, American Indian law, criminal law and procedure, gaming law, and property. For the 2007-08 academic year, Professor Washburn is on leave from the University of Minnesota and is serving as the 2007-08 Oneida Nation Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is teaching American Indian law, gaming law, and first-year criminal law. Professor Washburn earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1993, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Following law school, Professor Washburn clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 1994, Professor Washburn joined the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General's Honors Program. At Main Justice, he litigated cases involving Indian tribes, mostly in the context of environmental and natural resources law. In 1997, Professor Washburn left Main Justice to become a federal prosecutor in New Mexico, where he primarily prosecuted violent crimes arising in Indian country and referred by the FBI. In 2000, Professor Washburn became the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission, the independent federal regulatory agency that regulates Indian gaming nationwide. He joined the University of Minnesota Law School in the fall of 2002. In his career as a practicing lawyer, Professor Washburn handled numerous bench and jury trials in federal and state courts and arguments in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Since becoming an academic, he has published, taught, and lectured widely and has testified frequently before Congress. Professor Washburn is a member of the Criminal Law and Procedure Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (which produces the Multistate Bar Examination). He serves on the Executive Board of Editors of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council. With UCLA colleagues Carole Goldberg and Duane Champagne, Professor Washburn is serving as a principal investigator on a $1.47 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to study the administration of criminal justice in Indian country. Professor Washburn is an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian nation. He spent most of his youth in small towns in Oklahoma within the original boundaries of the tribe's former reservation. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a bachelors degree in economics with honors. Professor Washburn's Curriculum Vitae, gaming scholarship addendum, and Indian country criminal justice addendum. Professor Washburn's SSRN Author Page. Professor Washburn's additional photos can be found here and here.
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