Stacy Leeds

Books

American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (Rebecca Tsosie, Angela R. Riley, Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely, Lauren Van Schilfgaarde, Stacy L. Leeds, Carole Goldberg, Robert N. Clinton, 8th ed. 2025)

Mastering Native American Law (Angelique EagleWoman and Stacy L. Leeds, 3d ed., Carolina Academic Press 2024)

Mastering American Indian Law (Angelique EagleWoman and Stacy L. Leeds, 2d ed., 2019)

Mastering American Indian Law (Angelique EagleWoman and Stacy L. Leeds, 2013)

Major Published Reports

Report of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform to the United States Department of Interior (submitted to Secretary of Interior December 10, 2013)(commissioner and co-author with Robert Anderson) 

Articles and Essays  

Proactive Solutions in Implementing Tribal Digital Sovereignty, 22 Journal of Community Informatics 82 (2026)(Stacy L. Leeds, Sam Phillips and Mikaela Bledsoe Downes)

Strategic Litigation in Pursuit of Indigenous Justice, 73 Kan. L. Rev. 747 (2025)(Stacy L. Leeds and Laura Hines)

Tribal Nations and Abortion Access: A Path Forward, 46 Harv. J.L. & Gender 1 (2023)(Lauren Van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Sarah Deer, Ann Tweedy, Stacy Leeds)

Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta: Rebalancing Federal-State-Tribal Power, 23 J. App. Prac. & Process 47 (2023)(Stacy Leeds, Robert Miller, Kevin Washburn, Derrick Beetso)

A Familiar Crossroads: McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Future of the Federal Indian Law Canon, 51 N.M. L. Rev. 300 (2021) (Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely and Stacy Leeds)

A Wealth of Sovereign Choices: Tax Implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Promise of Tribal Economic Development, 56 Tulsa L. Rev. 417 (2021) (Stacy L. Leeds and Lonnie R. Beard)

Beyond an Emergency Declaration: Tribal Governments and the Opioid Crisis, 67 Kan. L. Rev. 1013 (2019)                           

[Dis]Respecting the Role of Tribal Court, Human Rights, 42 Hum. Rts. 20 (2016-2017)

Whose Sovereignty? Tribal Citizenship, Federal Indian Law, and Globalization, 46 Ariz. St. L. J. 89 (2014)(Stacy L. Leeds and Erin Shirl)

Coming Full Circle: A Tribute to Professor Jim Jones, 2013 Wisc. L. Rev. 733 (2013)

Resistance, Resilience, and Reconciliation:  Reflections on Native American Women and the Law, 34 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. 303 (2012)(Stacy L. Leeds and Elizabeth Mashie Gunsaulis)

Reassessing Concurrent Tribal-State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Kansas, 59 Kan. L. Rev. 949 (2011)(John Francis, Stacy L. Leeds, Aliza Organick and Jelani Jefferson Exum)

Defeat or Mixed Blessing: Tribal Sovereignty and the State of Sequoyah, 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 5 (2007)

Moving Toward Exclusive Tribal Autonomy Over Lands and Natural Resources, 45 Nat. Resources J. 439 (2006)

By Eminent Domain or Some Other Name:  A Tribal Perspective on Taking Land, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 51 (2005)

Borrowing from Blackacre: Expanding Tribal Land Base and Economies Through the Creation of Future Interests, 80 N.D. L. Rev. 827 (2004)

Order and Decision of the Court, Supreme Court of the American Indian Nations:  Julia Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo, 2003 Tribal Law and Government Conference Case Reconsideration, 14 Kan. J. L. &  Pub. Pol’y  91 (2004)

The More Things Stay the Same: Waiting on Indian Law’s Brown v. Board of Education, 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 73 (2002)

The Burning of Blackacre:  A Step Toward Reclaiming Tribal Property Law, 10 Kan. J. L. &  Pub. Pol’y  491 (2001)

Cross-Jurisdictional Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments:  A Tribal Court Perspective, 76 N.D. L. Rev. 311 (2000)

Recognition and Enforcement of Tribal Court Judgments in Oklahoma: Policy and Procedure Considerations for Future Compliance with Federal Mandates, XII Sovereignty Symposium 3-13 (1999)

Tobacco Litigation in Tribal Courts: A Double Standard in Waiting?, XI Sovereignty Symposium 98 (1998)

Southern Ute Indian Tribe v. Amoco Production Company: Judicial Construction of Coalbed Methane Gas Ownership, 17 Energy L. J. 489 (1996)

Book Chapters and Contributions to Collective Works 

Tribal Nations and Abortion Access: A Path Forward in Gender and the Law (Aníbal Rosario Lebrón et al. ed. 2024-2025)(reprint of Tribal Nations and Abortion Access: A Path Forward, 

46 Harv. J.L. & Gender 1 (2023)(Lauren Van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Sarah Deer, Ann Tweedy, Stacy Leeds)

Foreword in Renewing Indigenous Economies (Terry L. Anderson and Kathy Rattè, Hoover Institution Press Stanford University, 2022)

Indigenous Foresight Under Duress and the Modern Applicability of Allotment Agreements (Afterward) in Allotment Stories: Indigenous Responses to Land Privatization (Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota Press, 2021) 

Commentary on Johnson v. M’Intosh in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod and Elena Maria Marty-Nelson, Cambridge Press, 2021)

Pipeline into Law School/Legal Profession (Introduction) in The Pursuit of Inclusion:  An In-Depth Exploration of the Experiences and Perspectives of Native American Attorneys in the Legal Profession (National Native American Bar Association, 2015)

Chapter 13: The Story of an Unnamed Victim, an Unreported Decision, and an All Too Common Injustice in Women and the Law Stories (Elizabeth M. Schneider and Stephanie M. Wildman, Foundation Press, 2011)

Encyclopedia of American Indian Policy, Relations, and Law (Paul Finkelman & Tim Alan Garrison, CQ Press, 2009)(contributing author)

Indian Treaty Making: A Native View in Treaties with American Indians:  An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty (Donald L. Fixico, ABC-CLIO, 2007)

Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Nell Jessup Newton 3rd ed. 2005, Lexis/Nexus)(contributing author to property law sections)

Chapter 16: Native American Tribal Property in A Political History of Native Americans (Donald A. Grinde CQ Press, 2003)

Recent Popular Media and Blogs 

Why Arizona State Law School Applicants May Use Generative AI, Bloomberg Law (August 10, 2023)

The Indian Country Abortion Safe Harbor Fallacy, Law and Political Economy Project housed at Yale Law School (June 6, 2022)(Lauren Van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Sarah Deer, Ann Tweedy, Stacy Leeds)

What the Landmark Supreme Court Decision Means for Policing Indigenous Oklahoma, Slate (OpEd, July 10, 2020)