DISCOVERING INDIGENOUS LANDS C: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies - Hardcover

Al, Miller Et

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199579814 ISBN 13: 9780199579815

Verlag: ACADEMIC, 2010

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This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

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Robert J. Miller is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches Indian law courses and other classes. He is the chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the Grand Ronde Tribe and sits as a judge for other tribes, and is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He won the Woodcraft Circle of Native Writers Award for Writer of the Year, Non Fiction, 2006-07.


Jacinta Ruru (Ngai Raukawa, Ngai Te Rangi and Pakeha) is a senior law lecturer at the University of Otago where she teaches and researches Indigenous peoples' rights to land and natural resources. She has been the recipient of several awards including: the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2006); the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Harriette Jenkins Award (2003); the Inaugural National Maori Academic Excellence Award for Law in recognition of her LLM thesis (2002); and a New Zealand Fulbright Travel Award (2002).


Larissa Behrendt is the Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney and a practicing barrister. Larissa is a Land Commissioner at the Land and Environment Court and the Alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders Review Board. She is also NAIDOC Aboriginal Person of the Year in 2009 and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for South East Asia and the Pacific Best First Novel (2005), the David Uniapon Award for unpublished manuscript (2002), the Neville Bonner Teacher of the Year Award (2002) and a Federation Medal (2001).


Tracey Lindberg is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and Athabasca University in Canada and is a member of the Indigenous Bar Association and the Saskatchewan Bar. Dr. Lindberg teaches Advanced Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal theory, Aboriginal women's legal advocacy and the Historic Roots of Contemporary Legal Issues in Indigenous Nations. She has won the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award, The University of Ottawa's Governor General's Gold Medal in the Social Sciences for the highest academic standing in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Ottawa, and the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies / University Microfilms International Award for Distinguished Dissertation in Canada for her dissertation, Critical Indigenous Legal Theory.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199579814
• ISBN 13: 9780199579815
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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