{"product_id":"aboriginal-peoples-and-the-law-9780774880213","title":"Aboriginal Peoples and the Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis introduction to contemporary Aboriginal law lays the groundwork for any assessment of Canada's claim to be a just society for Indigenous peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the book is an introduction to modern Aboriginal law, Reynolds avoids using technical legal languages but provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of modern Aboriginal law through extensive resources, including key court decisions, legislation, treaties and agreements, political statements, documents and reports, as well as academic literature.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fumiya Nagai, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia * Great Plains Review *\u003cbr\u003eAs an introduction, \u003cem\u003e[Aboriginal Peoples and the Law\u003c\/em\u003e] offers ample contextualization of contemporary developments within the law—including overviews of historical background, treaties, Crown sovereignty, and Aboriginal rights and title—while keeping legal jargon and technical analysis to a minimum. In its efforts to remain accessible to all readers, \u003cem\u003eAboriginal Peoples and the Law\u003c\/em\u003e invites all Canadians to participate in this crucial national discourse. -- Olivia Burgess * Canadian Literature *\u003cbr\u003eReynolds provides a clear and highly readable summary, and critical analysis, of Canadian law as it pertains to Aboriginal and treaty rights, self-government, Aboriginal title, the duty to consult, and to both Indigenous and international sources of law…this is an excellent book for introductory or intermediate-level undergraduate students, and both the layout and useful end-of-chapter summaries make it an ideal choice as a course text. -- Michael Murphy, University of Northern British Columbia * The Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a lawyer with several decades behind me, I learned something on nearly every page. Most importantly, I appreciated Reynolds’s explanation of the context in which the law has been made through judges’ decisions and also of the relationships between the history and the present and between various sub-fields of Aboriginal law... My students, I believe, found \u003ci\u003eAboriginal Peoples \u003c\/i\u003ea straightforward and easily-comprehensible explanation of the law that enabled them to get up to speed quickly and to begin to analyse current legal issues.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sarah Pike * USAPP American Politics and Policy Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 What Is Aboriginal Law?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Historical Background \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Sovereignty and Aboriginal–Crown Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Aboriginal Rights and Title\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Treaties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Consultation, Accommodation, and Consent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Indigenous and International Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 A Just Society?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Cases Cited; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404953461079,"sku":"9780774880213","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774880213.jpg?v=1730488177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aboriginal-peoples-and-the-law-9780774880213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}