A disginuished professor of law at the University of Arizona
School of Law, Robert Williams (Lumbee) is regarded as one of the
nation's leading authorities on the evolution and practice of
federal Indian law. His writings on the rights of Indigenous
peoples and post colonial legal theory have made him one of the
nation's leading experts on the law of conquest and the evolution
of western law from the Middle Ages to the founding of the United
States. He is the author of many legal essays on the
formative years of federal Indian law, and also the seminal work on
the evolution of federal Indian law;The American Indian in Western
Legal Thought: Discourses on Conquest.