Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders

Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders

Canada

Indigenous legal order

legal systems

First Nations

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.

Val Napoleon

National Centre for First Nations Governance

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

2007

(c) Val Napoleon

National Centre for First Nations Governance

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

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