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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"indigenous law"”.
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Reconciling the Constitutional Order: Positing a New Approach to the Development of Indigenous Self-Government and Indigenous Law
In light of the recognition of continuing Indigenous sovereignty by the Supreme Court of Canada and the requirement that that sovereignty and de facto Crown sovereignty be reconciled within a shared constitutional order, Canada needs a new approach to negotiating the exercise of Indigenous …
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The Legality of Border Walls under International Law
… of border walls under public international law, focusing on four legal regimes: international refugee law, international human rights law, international indigenous law, and international environmental law. For illustration, the thesis assesses the compatibility of wall construction with …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
Many Canadian law schools are in the process of implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Call to Actions #28 and #50. Promising initiatives include mandatory courses, Indigenous cultural competency, and Indigenous law intensives. However, processes of social categorization and …
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Kwayeskastasowin ᒃᐗᔦᔅᑲᔅᑕᓱᐎᓐ (Setting Things Right): Cree Pathways to Modernizing Treaty 9
… Ontario’s Ring of Fire, collide with unresolved Indigenous sovereignty and governance. While signatories understood the treaty as a covenant of coexistence and shared stewardship, Canada imposed a land-surrender narrative, entrenching jurisdictional ambiguity, ecological degradation, and Indian …
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… problem of legal colonialism into the natural law-positivism debate by analyzing the 2019 Huson case, an instance of legal colonialism writ small. In Chapter 2, I test the legality of Huson by applying Fuller’s eight principles to the Court’s decision. I conclude that, according to Fuller, …
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Plan Perquenco and Chile's Indigenous Policies Under the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1976-1988
… structure and development of Chiles indigenous policies under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), taking as its focus a pilot project for indigenous Mapuche integration known as Plan Perquenco. Existing scholarship provides important analyses of the impact of the …
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Financial cooperatives: regulatory and supervisory answers for South Africa and Malawi
… Sector Regulation Act (No. 9 of 2017). In Malawi, the regulatory and supervisory framework of financial co-operatives consists of the Financial Services Act (No. 26 of 2010) and the Financial Co-operatives Act (No. 8 of 2011). This thesis proposes that the regulatory and supervisory …
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A Mana Wahine inquiry into indigenous governance
This thesis investigates the question “How can indigenous women reinvigorate their role in tribal governance structures when many such structures continue to reinforce gendered colonial constructs within which women are marginalised?” It is noted that contemporary tribal governance structures are …
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Ngā niho tēte o Pekehāua: An indigenous articulation of governance
… New Zealand, traditional Māori frameworks for law and governance were undermined, deconstructed, or marginalised to make way for the civilizing discourses and structures of the Settler, as enforced by the British Crown. Although the dominant system of law and frameworks for governance may have …