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aboriginal law
Australian Law Reform Commission Journal Issue on Native Title
The most recent issue of Reform, the journal of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), is devoted to Native Title.As noted by Professor David Weisbrot, ALRC President, in his Comment, the Commission has played an instrumental role in advancing the ideas of native title in Australia (based on...
Recent Library of Parliament Legislative Summaries
The Library of Parliament has prepared legislative summaries for the following federal bills now before the House of Commons in Ottawa:Bill C-3: An Act to amend the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act: "The bill is identical to an earlier Bill C-3, which was introduced on 3 December 2008, during...
The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians”
[The following piece was sent to us by a reader. Reproduced with permission of the author.] An Identification of the Conflicted Relationship between the Indigenous Nations and the Legal Profession in North America by Bruce Clark, LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. An Indian goes into a law office and says,...
Head of Commission on Indian Residential Schools Resigns
Justice Harry LaForme resigned today from his position as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to examine the legacy of decades of abuse of aboriginal children in residential schools.In a letter to federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, LaForme mentioned political and...
Breaking the Silence : International Conference on the Indian Residential Schools Commission of Canada
Last weekend, the Université de Montréal hosted Breaking the Silence : International conference on the Indian residential schools commission of Canada.The gathering was a joint initiative of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Centre for Research on Ethics of the ...
