Trevor Reed

Professor of Law

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Trevor Reed is a professor of law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in property, intellectual property, and Federal Indian law. He is also the faculty director of ASU’s Indigenous Innovation Initiative, a fellow for the Center for Law, Science and Innovation and a faculty member with the Indian Legal Program.

Reed has been recognized as a Charter Professor for his pursuit of inclusive innovation as a core tenant of his research, teaching and service, including his efforts to generate strategies to better protect Indigenous creatives, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions from misappropriation.

In partnership with local Tribal Nations, Reed intends to build culturally-engaged training programs and web-based Indigenous community-oriented learning environments, workshops, courses, podcasts and online training modules for Indigenous creators and innovators. His hope is that these resources will foster stability and growth for individual Indigenous artists and Tribal Nations’ creative economies across the country. Reed draws from more than three years of extensive use-inspired research conducted with Indigenous creative communities designed to better understand their opportunities and challenges when dealing with intellectual property matters. His goal is to help Indigenous creatives, entrepreneurs, and inventors navigate the complex world of intellectual property and understand what rights they have to their work, how to register or otherwise protect their work, how to license their work, and other important aspects of intellectual property ownership.

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