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Blog
Welcome to the ILRU blog.
This is a place for sharing stories and conversations about Indigenous Law in the world.
We hope it will be a place for nourishing our collective legal imaginaries – drawing on all the different ways that people (in their homes, in communities, on the land, in research centres, in the law schools) are engaging with Indigenous laws in the present, drawing on practices and knowledges of the past, and working towards the demands of the future.
Enjoy!
Blog posts
Watch: ILRU and NIȽ TU,O’s Presentation on The Legacy and Future of Social Work, Colonialism, Indigenous Law, and Child Welfare in B.C.
https://vimeo.com/776417587 Written by Ellen Campbell Indigenous Law Research Unit co-research director Tara Williamson and researcher Ellen Campbell, alongside Leslie-Ann Paige from one of our community partner organizations, NIȽ TU,O Child and Family Services...
Fences and Teachings – Opening up to Indigenous Laws
Nicola Lake (Photo: Diana Borges) Reflection by Simon Owen, ILRU Senior Researcher and Lawyer Working with Indigenous laws – especially as an outsider – often means seeing one’s own legal traditions and presumptions in a different light. This opportunity...
Teaching Law 388A in a Time of Pandemic
Image: Jessica Asch (Research Director) and Tara Williamson (Senior Researcher), your eager instructors Written by Jessica Asch and Tara Williamson This summer, for the first time, the University of Victoria Faculty of Law contracted the ILRU to deliver the...
ILRU Summer Students’ Reflections
Image: "Researching Raven," painting by Val Napoleon ILRU aims to support and train students, the upcoming generation of legal professionals, in the work of Indigenous law through research placements at our unit. Despite the upheaval caused by the COVID-19...
Collaboration in COVID times
Image: "Laptop," Painting by Val Napoleon While much of the ILRU’s learning starts with paper (such as published stories, academic articles, background research), the heart of our research is the work we do with – and within – communities. By early March, 2020...
Difficult conversations
Written by Rebecca Johnson (ILRU Associate Director) and Val Napoleon (ILRU Director) Difficult conversations. How do we have them, and have them in productive ways? This is a question that preoccupies many people who are trying to make sense of the ways that...
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