Speaker Series - Applying Indigenous Law in Canada
- Date
- January 16, 2023
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Open To
- Lincoln Alexander School of Law Community
Indigenous peoples' laws guide decision-making in many places throughout the land. These laws are standards, principles, processes, measurements, norms, guideposts, precedents and authorities for regulating activities and resolving disputes. Canadian law has had difficulty recognizing Indigenous law but it is present in case law, legislation, and administrative structures. This lecture will discuss the challenges and opportunities found in recognizing and affirming Indigenous law from coast to coast to coast.
Speaker
Dr. John Borrows B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.D. (Hons., Dalhousie, York, SFU, Queen’s & Law Society of Ontario), D.H.L, (Toronto), F.R.S.C., O.C., is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School in British Columbia, and Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002), Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism ((Donald Smiley Award best book in Canadian Political Science, 2016), The Right Relationship (with Michael Coyle, ed.), Resurgence and Reconciliation (with Michael Asch, Jim Tully, eds.), Law’s Indigenous Ethics (2020 Best subsequent Book Award from Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2020 W. Wes Pue Best book award from the Canadian Law and Society Association). Dr. Borrows is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences and the 2019 Molson Prize Winner from the Canada Council for the Arts, the 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Award, and the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award winner. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. Dr. Borrows is a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
This event is part of of the Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker 2022/23. For more information, visit the series page.