Sarah Krakoff
- Moses Lasky Professor of Law
Sarah Krakoff, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, is a nationally recognized expert in Native American law, natural resources law, and environmental justice. She is the recipient of two University-wide awards, the Hazel Barnes Prize for distinguished scholarship and teaching and the Chase Community Service Award for her public service work with low-income communities. Her publications include American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (with Bob Anderson and Bethany Berger), Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (with Melissa Powers and Jonathan Rosenbloom), and Tribes, Land and Environment (with Ezra Rosser), as well as articles published in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review and other journals.
Professor Krakoff is the founder and director of the Acequia Assistance Project, which provides free representation to low-income farmers in the San Luis Valley. She has authored amicus briefs in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Colorado Law tenure-track faculty, Professor Krakoff directed CU's American Indian Law Clinic and secured permanent University funding to ensure the Clinic's future. At the start of her legal career, Professor Krakoff was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work on the Navajo Nation as Director of the Youth Law Project for DNA-People's Legal Services. Professor Krakoff clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Warren J. Ferguson from 1992-93. She received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1991 and her B.A. from Yale in 1986.
Areas of Specialty
Natural Resources Law; Civil Procedure; American Indian Law
Education
JD, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall
BA, Yale University