East Lansing,
Michigan
Kathryn E. Fort is the college's director of clinics and runs the college's Indian Law Clinic, where she teaches the clinic class and other classes in federal Indian law. Ms. Fort has researched and written extensively on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). In 2015, she started the Indian Child Welfare Act Appellate Project, which represents tribes in complex ICWA litigation across the country. Ms. Fort has written numerous articles that have been published in the "Yale Law Journal Forum," "Harvard Public Health Review," "George Mason Law Review," "Family Law Quarterly," "Saint Louis University Law Journal," and the "American Indian Law Review." She has also authored chapters in "Critical Race Judgements" (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and "Child Welfare Law and Practice" (National Association of Counsel for Children, 2023), both with Matthew L. M. Fletcher, and she is the author of "American Indian Children and the Law," (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). Ms. Fort also coedited "Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30" (Michigan State University Press, 2009) and is a contributing editor to the "Cohens Handbook of Federal Indian Law." Ms. Fort graduated magna cum laude from Michigan State University College of Law with the Certificate in Indigenous Law and is licensed to practice law in Michigan.
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