Professor Bethany Berger is a widely read scholar of property law and legal history, and one of the leading federal Indian Law scholars in the country. She is a co-author and member of the editorial board of Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of federal Indian Law, the foundational treatise in the field, and co-author of leading casebooks in both property law and American Indian law.
At the University of Connecticut School of Law, Berger teaches American Indian law, property, tribal law, and conflict of laws.
Berger has served as a judge for the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals, as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School, and co-authored amicus briefs in five successful cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.