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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism has the pleasur
 e of welcoming Professor John Borrows for the 2018 John Humphrey Lecture i
 n Human Rights. His talk is titled Indigenous Rights as Colonialism: UNDRI
 P and Canada’s Constitution.\nAbstract\n\n  This lecture will examine how 
 recent Supreme\nCourt of Canada decisions reproduce colonialism\nby implic
 ation. Aboriginal and treaty rights\nare continually diminished by assumin
 g Crown\nsovereignty is paramount\, allowing the Crown to\ndefine its enti
 tlements\, permitting adjudicators\nto uphold these entitlements\, and app
 lying this\nlogic in subsequent cases. This talk will consider\nthe role o
 f the United Nations Declaration on the\nRights of Indigenous Peoples (UND
 RIP) in addressing\nthis issue.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nProfessor John Bor
 rows is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victo
 ria Law School. He is currently a Distinguished Tomlinson Visiting Profess
 or at McGill's Faculty of Law\, in residence for the 2017-2018 university 
 year.\n\nBorrows teaches in the area of Constitutional Law\, Indigenous La
 w\, and Environmental Law. His publications include Recovering Canada\; Th
 e Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in C
 anadian Political Science\, 2002)\; Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Cana
 dian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011)\; and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit
 's Guide (2010)\, all from the University of Toronto Press.\n\nBorrows 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\, Humaniti
 es 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 communitie
 s. He is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash Fir
 st Nation in Ontario\, Canada.\n\nAbout the Humphrey Lectures\n\nThe John 
 P. Humphrey Lectureship in Human Rights is an annual lecture on the theme 
 of the role of International Law and Organization in the world-wide protec
 tion of Human Rights. The lecture was founded in 1988 to commemorate the 4
 0th anniversary of the drafting of the United Nations Universal Declaratio
 n of Human Rights and in recognition of the leadership of John P. Humphrey
  (BCL 1928) in the elaboration\, drafting\, and promotion of the Declarati
 on.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Indigenous Rights as Colonialism: UNDRIP and Canada’s Constitution 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/indigenous-rights-colonialism-
 undrip-and-canadas-constitution-283981
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