Public lecture – considering indigenous laws
Can law be taught outside the traditional law school classroom? Are declarations of Parliament and the Courts the only laws for consideration? What about the laws of indigenous peoples?
Can law be taught outside the traditional law school classroom? Are declarations of Parliament and the Courts the only laws for consideration? What about the laws of indigenous peoples?
Learning outside the classroom, on and from the land, should be integral to understanding our legal world.
Mark 5.30-7pm on Thursday 11 February 2016 in your diary to hear the views and experiences of Canadian Professor John Borrows – an internationally respected indigenous legal scholar. At his public lecture – open to anyone – he will explore innovative teaching approaches to give students deeper understandings of the way law works, especially in the context of indigenous peoples.
Legal obligations are generated in homes, businesses, hospitals, courts, cities, and rural landscapes. These and other legal sites should be explored and examined in more direct ways. Law schools can do more to mediate learning experiences in their immediate physical locations and much further afield.
“This is a great opportunity to hear a different perspective on how law is present in physical and social relationships from a leading international scholar,” says Dr Carwyn Jones, Senior Lecturer, Te Kura Tātai Ture - Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington - Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui.
“Professor Borrows has previously spent time in New Zealand and he is a consulting editor to the Māori Law Review, so his work contains significant insights for legal scholarship.”
Information on attending the public lecture (pdf).
About Professor John Borrows
John Borrows B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), F.R.S.C., is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, based at the University of Victoria, British Colombia. He teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Indigenous Law, and Environmental Law.
Professor Borrows has served as a Visiting Professor and Acting Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visitor at Waikato University in New Zealand; Visiting Professor at J. Rueben Clark Law School at BYU; Vine Deloria Distinguished Visitor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law; and LG Pathy Professor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University.
His publications include, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002); Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011): and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide; all from the University of Toronto Press.
Professor Borrows is a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC), Canada’s highest academic honour; and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Peoples Counsel (I.P.C.) from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honour and integrity in service to Indigenous communities.
He is a consulting editor to the Māori Law Review.
Professor Borrows is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.