This article is about constitutionalism as an Indigenous tradition. The political idea of constitutionalism is the idea that the process of governing is itself governed by a set of foundational laws or rules. There is ample evidence that Indigenous nations in North America—and in Australia and New Zealand as well—were in this sense constitutionalists. Customary law, cultural norms, and shared protocols provided well understood guidelines for key aspects of governance by shaping both personal and collective action, the behavior of leaders, decision-making, dispute resolution, and relationships with the human, material, and spirit worlds. Today, many of these nations have governing systems imposed by outsiders. As they move to change these sy...
© 2017 Dr. Dylan LinoWhen Australians today debate the terms of political association between the pe...
Despite recent advances in the law of aboriginal rights, most Canadian lawyers still tacitly view th...
‘Constitutional recognition’ has emerged as a dominant language through which Australians now debate...
This article is about constitutionalism as an Indigenous tradition. The political idea of constituti...
The Anglo-Austrahan legal system has not readily recognised Indigenous constitutions. The absence of...
Many constitutions of the world contain special provisions for indigenous communities, granting them...
This article argues that there needs to be a conceptual shift in how we understand the constitutiona...
Over the last three decades, Indigenous peoples in the CANZUS countries (Canada, Australia, New Zeal...
This article argues that there needs to be a conceptual shift in how we understand the constitutiona...
This article furnishes a comparative analysis on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people...
In the “self‐governance era” of indigenous‐state relations, there is a growing interest in the first...
This article assesses the comparative effectiveness of constitutional protection of indigenous right...
In settler societies, tribal self-governance creates a legal distinction between indigeneity (define...
This Article explores a radical method under the U.S. Constitution for devolving extraordinary polit...
The right of indigenous self-determination is now accepted at both the national and international le...
© 2017 Dr. Dylan LinoWhen Australians today debate the terms of political association between the pe...
Despite recent advances in the law of aboriginal rights, most Canadian lawyers still tacitly view th...
‘Constitutional recognition’ has emerged as a dominant language through which Australians now debate...
This article is about constitutionalism as an Indigenous tradition. The political idea of constituti...
The Anglo-Austrahan legal system has not readily recognised Indigenous constitutions. The absence of...
Many constitutions of the world contain special provisions for indigenous communities, granting them...
This article argues that there needs to be a conceptual shift in how we understand the constitutiona...
Over the last three decades, Indigenous peoples in the CANZUS countries (Canada, Australia, New Zeal...
This article argues that there needs to be a conceptual shift in how we understand the constitutiona...
This article furnishes a comparative analysis on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people...
In the “self‐governance era” of indigenous‐state relations, there is a growing interest in the first...
This article assesses the comparative effectiveness of constitutional protection of indigenous right...
In settler societies, tribal self-governance creates a legal distinction between indigeneity (define...
This Article explores a radical method under the U.S. Constitution for devolving extraordinary polit...
The right of indigenous self-determination is now accepted at both the national and international le...
© 2017 Dr. Dylan LinoWhen Australians today debate the terms of political association between the pe...
Despite recent advances in the law of aboriginal rights, most Canadian lawyers still tacitly view th...
‘Constitutional recognition’ has emerged as a dominant language through which Australians now debate...