Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center
405B Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517/432-6909
matthew.fletcher@law.msu.edu
Notes
Indigenous Law Program
Turtle Talk: The Indigenous Law and Policy Center Blog
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Bar Admissions
Arizona, Michigan, Washington
Courses
Advanced Topics in Indian Law,
Constitutional Law I,
Federal Law and Indian Tribes
Biography
Matthew L.M. Fletcher is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Hoopa Valley Tribe. He is a consultant to the Seneca Nation of Indians Court of Appeals.
Professor Fletcher will be co-author of the sixth edition of Cases on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West, forthcoming 2010) with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams, and will author American Indian Tribal Law (forthcoming 2010), the first casebook for law students on tribal law. He recently published American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law (Routledge 2008), and co-edited Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 with Wenona T. Singel and Kathryn E. Fort (Michigan State University Press 2009). Professor Fletcher has published articles with Arizona Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Hastings Law Journal, Houston Law Review, and Tulane Law Review.
Professor Fletcher graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and the University of Michigan in 1994. He has worked as a staff attorney for four Indian Tribes – the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Grand Traverse Band. He is a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, located in Peshawbestown, Michigan. He is married to Wenona Singel, a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and they have two sons, Owen and Emmett.