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Public Speaking, Stuttering and Truth Telling

By Bruce McIvor

Apply Now! 2025 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship

By First Peoples Law LLP

UBC Professors’ Attempt to Deny the Facts of Law and History

By The Honourable Harry S. LaForme & Bruce McIvor

UNDRIP at the Federal Court: Case Comment on Kebaowek First Nation v. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay

What We're Watching: Winter Edition

February 14 2025

By First Peoples Law LLP

In Brief: Wolastoqey Nations v. New Brunswick and Canada

January 23 2025

2024 Indigenous Rights Year in Review

By First Peoples Law LLP

Indigenous Self-Determination & Canada’s National Parks

November 28 2024

By Kate Gunn and Caitlin Stockwell

Honouring and Supporting Indigenous Resilience

September 27 2024

By Tumia Knott, spaləl̕

What We're Watching: Fall Edition

September 15 2024

By First Peoples Law LLP

In Brief: New Tool for Enforcing Indigenous Laws

By Michael Davidson

Holding the Crown to Account: Restoule v. Ontario

Supreme Court of Canada Restoule Decision Released

By First Peoples Law LLP

What We're Watching: Summer Edition

By First Peoples Law LLP

Rights and Remedies at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Shot Both Sides v. Canada

Apply Now! 2024 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship

By First Peoples Law LLP

Indigenous Sovereignty at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

In Brief: Thomas v. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2024 BCCA 62

Just released! Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary 2024

February 22 2024

By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil

The Troubling Basis for the Supreme Court’s Child Welfare Law Decision

February 12 2024

By Bruce McIvor

Reframing Aboriginal Rights: R. c. Montour

January 18 2024

By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil

2023 Indigenous Rights Year in Review

By First Peoples Law LLP

Indigenous Rights and Marine Spaces: Chippewas of Nawash v. Canada

November 30 2023

Treaty Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada: Restoule Appeal

November 2 2023

By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil

Limitations Legislation and Treaty Rights at the Supreme Court

October 26 2023

By First Peoples Law LLP

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism

September 29 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Four

September 29 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Three

September 28 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Two

September 27 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part One

September 26 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Indigenous Peoples and the Supreme Court of Canada: Part Two

September 19 2023

By Bruce McIvor

Reconciliation and Aboriginal Title: Case Comment on The Nuchatlaht v British Columbia

By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay

In Brief: Ontario Court Weighs in on Treaty Rights and Land Back

By Kate Gunn and Tyler Swan

The Way It Is – Our Growing and Necessary Re-Connection to Indigenous Laws

By Tumia Knott, spaləl̕

Apply Now! 2023 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship

By First Peoples Law LLP

Now What? Next Steps for Uprooting the Doctrine of Discovery

By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor

Initial Thoughts on Today's Announcement from the Catholic Church

By Bruce McIvor

In Brief: Jim Shot Both Sides, et al. v. His Majesty the King

By Kate Gunn and Tyler Swan

200 Years of Denial: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery

By Bruce McIvor

The Alberta “Sovereignty” Act and Indigenous Jurisdiction

February 2 2023

By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil

Hot off the Press! Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada 2023

January 19 2023

By Kate Gunn, Geneva Lloyd and Cody O'Neil

Indigenous Rights 2022 Year in Review

By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor

Indigenous Hunting Rights and the NRTA: Case Comment on R. v. Green

December 1 2022

By Kate Gunn and Nisha Sikka

Indigenous Jurisdiction and Bill C-92 at the Supreme Court of Canada

October 26 2022

First Peoples Law Expands into Ontario

By First Peoples Law LLP

Meet the Recipient of our 2022 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship!

September 29 2022

Justice O’Bonsawin and the Supreme Court of Canada

By Bruce McIvor

Indigenous Jurisdiction and the Charter at the Supreme Court: Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

Consent, Indigenous Rights and the Tahltan Agreement

2022 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship

By First Peoples Law LLP