Kirsten Anker

Dr. Kirsten Anker is a legal scholar whose research focuses on Indigenous legal orders and ecologically-oriented legal theory in developing cross-cultural frameworks for territorial and water governance. She has published on Indigenous rights claims in Australian and Canada, mapping and alternative cartographies and ecological jurisprudence and has developed a unique interdisciplinary field course at McGill in collaboration with local Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) communities. A member of McGill's Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA), she is project lead on CICADA's Indigenous Laws, Indigenous Rights and Interlegalities research axis. Together with Collin Scott, she is co-investigator in an inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral research collaboration involving the protection of the Chateauguay and Champlain-Richelieu watersheds as "territories of life".