Zachary Biech 1L writes about attending the 2016 Indigenous Bar Association Conference

Monday, November 7, 2016

By Zachary Biech

Zachary Biech and three other 1L students attended the Indigenous Bar Association Conference on behalf of the Faculty of Law, and their attendance was funded by the Aboriginal Law Program.

The 2016 Indigenous Bar Association Conference was a truly enlightening experience. The Conference was held in Vancouver this year on Musqueam territory. Getting the opportunity to fly across the country to such a beautiful city to meet other people from all over Canada was incredibly exciting.

U of T Law students explore Indigenous law at Cape Croker Indian Reserve

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Learning about water laws sitting next to Georgian Bay and about plant laws by walking through a forest

By Noreen Ahmed-Ullah

For years, Canadians studying Indigenous law have learned about treaties and case studies, sitting in a classroom and approaching the subject from a largely colonial perspective.

Senator Murray Sinclair's Call for Senatorial and Legal Restraint Should Inspire All of Us

The deluge of op-eds, blogs, commentaries, media interviews and news reports about Bill C-14 on Medical Assistance in Dying has created a level of over-saturation. More careful, reflective statements are increasingly hard to find. What now dominates the debate are bold statements about the constitutionality of the Bill—University of Ottawa’s Amir Attaran apparently even inventing a new constitutional qualifier of ‘unconstitutional by the bucketfull’--and reports of difficult and emotional end-of-life situations, which Bill C-14 may indeed not necessarily solve. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that the eloquent, respectful and wise intervention in the Senate by the Honourable Murray Sinclair, former judge and former Chair of the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, did not receive much attention in the media.

Consequences of the Aboriginal residential schools system continue beyond Canada's apology

Monday, March 2, 2015

From left: Alumni Bob Rae, Mayo Moran, Douglas Sanderson at the Hart House discussion on the residential schools system with lawyer Delia Opekokew.

Story and Photos by David Kumagai, 3L

 

Bob Rae is urging the next generation of Canadians to confront Canada’s legacy of abuse against Aboriginal peoples.  

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Special issue of UTLJ devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The new issue (64:4) of the University of Toronto Law Journal (UTLJ) is a special issue devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement, co-edited by Profs. Mayo Moran and Kent Roach. As well as their introduction, each of them contributes an article, along with articles by other distinguished scholars including frequent visitor to the U of T law school, Prof. John Borrows.

See the issue web page on the University of Toronto Press website.

Vanessa Gurr: A closer look at First Nation rights in Fort McMurray, Alberta

Friday, July 25, 2014

Law student Vanessa Gurr, left, with staff at Industry Relations Corporation


By Karen Gross

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