Indian Law Fellow
Lior graduated from Oberlin College in 2019, earning B.A.s in both Environmental Studies and Political Science and receiving High Honors for their thesis on Supreme Court jurisprudence on Indian treaty interpretation. Following college, Lior moved to Virginia and worked in public interest lobbying and campaign politics there and in Washington, D.C. In 2024, Lior received a J.D. from UCLA School of Law with the Native Nations Law Specialization.
During law school, Lior worked in UCLA Law’s Tribal Legal Development Clinic, providing a wide range of legal services for diverse tribal clients. Lior was Senior Articles Editor of the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance after serving as a Production Editor. Throughout law school, Lior participated in the NALSA chapter at UCLA, and was President of the American Constitution Society, an advocacy organization that seeks to diversify the judges who sit on federal and state courts. Lior conducted independent research projects at UCLA Law about uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, tribal emergency public health administration, and water law and tribal water rights.
Lior has also worked at the Pine Ridge Office of Dakota Plains Legal Services, serving members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge, SD, and for the Yurok Tribe Office of the Tribal Attorney in Klamath, CA.