Professor Anderson is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Native American Law Center. Before joining the law school, he was a Senior Staff Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, Colorado and Anchorage, Alaska for twelve years. He litigated major cases involving Native American sovereignty, hunting and fishing rights, and natural resources. From 1995-2001 he served as an appointee of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt where he provided legal and policy advice on a wide variety of Indian law and natural resource issues. He teaches Indian Law, Public Land Law, Water Law and first-year Property Law. Professor Anderson was selected by students as a Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 2005 and again in 2007. In 2007, he received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association. He is also a co-author and member of the Board of Editors of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005) and is co-author of American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, which is now in press. He is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Bois Forte Band).