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
Collection
Tags
Citation
Val Napoleon, “Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders,” Exhibits, accessed May 10, 2025, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2396.