Intensive Course: Indigenous Peoples and Comparative Constitutional and International Law: New Zealand, Canada and the USA (LAW757H1S)

Note: The add/drop date for this course is Monday, January 8 at 10:00 PM.

Course Location: Please see the "Intensive Course Schedule" under Schedules and Timetables (http://www.law.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/schedules).

Note: Attendance at intensive courses is mandatory for the duration of the course.  

The course will examine comparative constitutional law and international law (human rights especially) and Indigenous peoples with a focus on New Zealand and Canada and the US (and maybe Australia).  We will focus in on treaties and modern treaty making, formal and informal rights protections, rights to lands, territories and resources, Indigenous women, Indigenous peoples’ legal systems and state recognition (or not) and topics of interest to the students as determined by them. We will also examine recent developments such as initiatives to agree national plans of action to realise the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.