The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even though that stipulation is unique among the constitutional documents of comparable federal states (the United States and Australia). This article explains that the constitutional provisions in Canada, the United States, and Australia are a product of the previous history of indigenous-state relations in each location, but also profoundly affected subs...
Because increasing numbers of Indigenous people are choosing to work within the legal and political ...
Section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act of 1867 provides that the federal government has the legisla...
This dissertation proposes re-asserting Indigenous legal authority over immigration in the face of s...
© 2015 Dr. Timothy David GassinIn the second half of the nineteenth century, federation movements em...
This chapter explores how the Canadian state attempts to displace the wealth of Indigenous legal rel...
In its recent decisions in Tsilhqot’in Nation and Grassy Narrows, the Supreme Court of Canada has si...
This article furnishes a comparative analysis on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people...
Comparative study often provides an unexpectedly rich vein of insight in the field of Indigenous law...
This paper argues that aboriginal rights in Canada have been greatly affected by 19 th century gover...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
International lawyers are familiar with the concept of extraterritoriality the application of one co...
With the increased mobility and interdependence brought on by globalisation, governments can no long...
Canada, with a comparable history of colonisation to that of Australia\u27s, faces similar contempor...
Fuelled by contrasting political backdrops, indigenous tribes on opposite sides of what has become t...
Using the language of rights and national self-determination, Aboriginal peoples have mounted a fund...
Because increasing numbers of Indigenous people are choosing to work within the legal and political ...
Section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act of 1867 provides that the federal government has the legisla...
This dissertation proposes re-asserting Indigenous legal authority over immigration in the face of s...
© 2015 Dr. Timothy David GassinIn the second half of the nineteenth century, federation movements em...
This chapter explores how the Canadian state attempts to displace the wealth of Indigenous legal rel...
In its recent decisions in Tsilhqot’in Nation and Grassy Narrows, the Supreme Court of Canada has si...
This article furnishes a comparative analysis on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people...
Comparative study often provides an unexpectedly rich vein of insight in the field of Indigenous law...
This paper argues that aboriginal rights in Canada have been greatly affected by 19 th century gover...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
International lawyers are familiar with the concept of extraterritoriality the application of one co...
With the increased mobility and interdependence brought on by globalisation, governments can no long...
Canada, with a comparable history of colonisation to that of Australia\u27s, faces similar contempor...
Fuelled by contrasting political backdrops, indigenous tribes on opposite sides of what has become t...
Using the language of rights and national self-determination, Aboriginal peoples have mounted a fund...
Because increasing numbers of Indigenous people are choosing to work within the legal and political ...
Section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act of 1867 provides that the federal government has the legisla...
This dissertation proposes re-asserting Indigenous legal authority over immigration in the face of s...