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Indigenous Law

All Roads Lead to the Crown: Aboriginal Title, Private Property, and Indigenous Legal Orders

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In this Brief, Andrew Ambers and Charlotte Weston examine the Cowichan and Wolastoqey decisions, challenge the Crown for their failure to address the intersection of private property and Aboriginal title, and offer new approaches to our collective relationship to property/land rooted in Indigenous legal orders.

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Injunctions by First Nations: Results of a National Study

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After reviewing over 100 cases of injunctions filed by and against First Nations, we believe that this legal tool reinforces the impossible position of First Nation parties when they appear before Canadian courts. This brief provides a summary of just a slim subset of data collected in the largest national research project that exists to date on the use of injunctive relief by and against First Nations in Canada.

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