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Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders

Title

Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders

Subject

Canada
Indigenous legal order
legal systems
First Nations

Description

In this paper, the author explores how we might understand law from an Aboriginal perspective. She makes a critical distinction between "legal systems" and "legal order". She explores the sources of law, the kinds of law, legal reasoning, and the idea of legitimacy. She also probes the questions of where Indigenous laws are written and the geographic/territorial dimension to the law. She further considers issues related to gender and power.

Creator

Val Napoleon

Source

National Centre for First Nations Governance

Publisher

National Centre for First Nations Governance, online: http://fngovernance.org/ncfng_research/val_napoleon.pdf

Date

2007

Rights

(c) Val Napoleon
National Centre for First Nations Governance

Relation

National Centre for First Nations Governance website: http://fngovernance.org/

Format

document file/PDF

Language

English

Type

Text

Original Format

paper

Files

Citation

Val Napoleon, “Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders,” Exhibits, accessed October 2, 2023, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2396.