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Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R.L. Rand are founders and co-directors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, a component of the Northern Plains Indian Law Center at the University of North Dakota School of Law. The Institute, founded in 2002, is the first university-affiliated research institute in the U.S. dedicated to the study of Indian gaming. Light and Rand have published numerous articles on tribal gaming and tribal sovereignty, as well as two books: Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise (University Press of Kansas, 2005) and Indian Gaming Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2006). They currently are writing a casebook, Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials, forthcoming from Carolina Academic Press in 2007.
Their first book, Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise, was featured on C-SPAN2’s Book TV in 2006. Rand and Light frequently present their research on the legal and political issues surrounding Indian gaming. They twice testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, in 2005 and 2008. They have provided commentary to many national media outlets, including Bloomberg Media, Copley News Service, Associated Press, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Congressional Quarterly magazine, as well as to numerous regional and local outlets.
Kathryn R.L. Rand is Dean and the Floyd B. Sperry Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota School of Law, where she teaches in the areas of constitutional law, civil rights, Indian gaming law, and race, gender, and the law. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Rand clerked for the North Dakota Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and was an Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting drug and violent crime and serving as a tribal liaison to the Menominee Nation.
Steven Andrew Light is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches American government, constitutional law, civil rights and civil liberties, administrative law, and public personnel administration. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. Light served in the Voting Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.
