LAWG 103. Indigenous Legal Traditions.
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LAWG 103
Indigenous Legal Traditions.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Law (Faculty of Law)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Indigenous law in Canada by teaching, inter alia, the connections between Indigenous ways of being and knowing and Indigenous law, including how
those connections have been damaged in colonial contexts, and efforts to revitalize them. Topics include: the worldviews and constitutional contexts of Indigenous legal
traditions; and the colonial contexts which have shaped the contemporary realities of Indigenous laws and Indigenous legal education.
- Restrictions: Open only to first-year McGill law students.
- Languages of instruction are English and French.
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