Stephen Pevar
- Visiting Professor - January Term 2020
- Senior Staff Counsel, ACLU Racial Justice Program
- Adjunct Professor of American Indian Law, Yale Law School
Stephen Pevar is a graduate of Princeton University (1968) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1971). From 1971 through 1974, Mr. Pevar was a Legal Aid attorney on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. From 1976 to the present, Mr. Pevar has been a Staff Attorney for the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Mr. Pevar has litigated some 200 federal cases involving civil and constitutional rights. His areas of specialty include Indian and tribal rights, prisoners’ rights, and free speech of public employees. One of Mr. Pevar’s current cases is a class action lawsuit challenging practices in South Dakota that violate the Indian Child Welfare Act.
In addition to his litigation, Mr. Pevar is the author of The Rights of Indians and Tribes (Oxford University Press 2012), and he lectures extensively on the subject of Indian and tribal rights. From 1983 through 1999, Mr. Pevar taught American Indian Law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver School of Law, at NYU Law School from 2014-2019, and in January 2020, he will teach that course at Yale Law School.
