Event Description:
Leading indigenous scholar Val Napoleon, Professor of Law and Acting Dean of University of Victoria, will be delivering a talk entitled "Indigenous Law Today and Through the Futuristic Looking Glass." The talk is part of the recently launched "UBC legal theory workshop" speaker series and will be followed by discussion.
Event open to Faculty and Graduate Students.
A short company paper is attached in preparation for the workshop. All faculty members and graduate students are welcome and invited to participate.
Speaker:
Professor Val Napoleon [Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel, LLB, PhD] is the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law, UVIC, and the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance. She is the co-founder of JID/JD (dual degree program in Indigenous legal orders and Canadian common law), and the founding director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit. She is Cree from Saulteau First Nation and an adopted member of the Gitanyow [northern Gitxsan]. Her areas of research include Indigenous legal traditions and methodologies (e.g., land, water, governance and democracy, human rights, gender, dispute resolution, and intellectual property), Indigenous legal theories, Indigenous feminisms, legal pluralism, Indigenous democracy, and Indigenous intellectual property. She teaches common property law and Gitxsan land and property law transsystemically in the JID/JD
- Allard School of Law
- Faculty
- Graduate Students