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Making Space for Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Canada
April 9 2026
By Charlotte Connolly
Bill S-2: An Update
February 27 2026
By Patricia Lawrence
2025 Indigenous Rights Year in Review
December 31 2025
By First Peoples Law LLP
Tune in Live! The Constitutionality of an Alberta Independence Referendum Proposal
November 18 2025
By First Peoples Law LLP
What We're Watching: Fall Edition
November 6 2025
By First Peoples Law LLP
Bill S-2 and the Second-Generation Cut-Off | Patricia Lawrence
November 3 2025
By Patricia Lawrence
Correcting Misconceptions: Aboriginal Title, Private Property, and the Cowichan Tribes Decision
October 27 2025
By Kate Gunn
Meet the Recipients of our 2025 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship!
October 8 2025
Reconciling Aboriginal and Fee Simple Title: Cowichan Tribes v Canada
August 27 2025
By Kate Gunn
Bill C-5: Now What?
July 24 2025
By Bruce McIvor
10 Years Later: Reflecting on the Legacy of the TRC's 94 Calls to Action
July 4 2025
By Kate Gunn
On a Fast Track to Chaos
June 12 2025
By Bruce McIvor
Tune in Live! Crown’s Attempt to Rectify Treaty Breach Under Court Review
June 1 2025
By First Peoples Law LLP
BC and Ontario Promote Legalized Lawlessness
May 28 2025
By Bruce McIvor
Why King Charles’ Visit is Important for Treaty First Nations
May 27 2025
By Bruce McIvor
Public Speaking, Stuttering and Truth Telling
May 9 2025
By Bruce McIvor
Apply Now! 2025 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship
May 1 2025
By First Peoples Law LLP
UBC Professors’ Attempt to Deny the Facts of Law and History
April 24 2025
By The Honourable Harry S. LaForme & Bruce McIvor
UNDRIP at the Federal Court: Case Comment on Kebaowek First Nation v. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
March 20 2025
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
By Kate Gunn
2024 Indigenous Rights Year in Review
January 2 2025
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
August 22 2024
By Michael Davidson
Holding the Crown to Account: Restoule v. Ontario
August 1 2024
By Kate Gunn
Supreme Court of Canada Restoule Decision Released
July 26 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
What We're Watching: Summer Edition
June 1 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Rights and Remedies at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Shot Both Sides v. Canada
May 23 2024
By Kate Gunn
Apply Now! 2024 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship
May 1 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Indigenous Sovereignty at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
April 18 2024
By Kate Gunn
In Brief: Thomas v. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2024 BCCA 62
March 21 2024
By Kate Gunn
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
January 4 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Indigenous Rights and Marine Spaces: Chippewas of Nawash v. Canada
November 30 2023
By Kate Gunn
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
July 27 2023
By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay
In Brief: Ontario Court Weighs in on Treaty Rights and Land Back
June 29 2023
By Kate Gunn and Tyler Swan