Indigenous Rights as Colonialism: UNDRIP and Canada’s Constitution

Le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique a le plaisir d'accueillir le professeur John Borrows qui prononcera la Conférence annuelle John Humphrey en droits de la personne. Sa conférence s'intitulera Indigenous Rights as Colonialism: UNDRIP and Canada’s Constitution.

Résumé

[En anglais seulement] This lecture will examine how recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions reproduce colonialism by implication. Aboriginal and treaty rights are continually diminished by assuming Crown sovereignty is paramount, allowing the Crown to define its entitlements, permitting adjudicators to uphold these entitlements, and applying this logic in subsequent cases. This talk will consider the role of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in addressing this issue.

Le conférencier

[En anglais seulement] Professor John Borrows is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School. He is currently a Distinguished Tomlinson Visiting Professor at McGill's Faculty of Law, in residence for the 2017-2018 university year.

Borrows teaches in the area of Constitutional Law, Indigenous Law, and Environmental Law. 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 (2010), all from the University of Toronto Press.

Borrows is a recipient an Aboriginal Achievement Award in Law and Justice, a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, and 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 from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honour and integrity in service to Indigenous communities. He is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.

Les conférences Humphrey

La Conférence annuelle John Peters Humphrey a été créée en 1988 afin de souligner le 40e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies, dont la première ébauche fut rédigée par John Humphrey (BCL 1928), professeur de droit à McGill.