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Legal research and writing

This guide provides an introduction to legal research and writing for law students.

Indigenous Legal Research

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (2016) Volume 33 Issue 1: Special Issue on Indigenous Law
"Reflective Frameworks: Methods for Accessing Understanding and Applying Indigenous Legal Orders"
Hadley Friedland, 11:1 Indigenous Law Journal 2012
"The Lifeworlds of Law: On Revitalizing Legal Orders Today"
Aaron Mills, McGill Law Journal Volume 61 Issue 1 (2016): Special Issue Indigenous Law and Legal Pluralism
"Heroes, Tricksters, Monsters, and Caretakers: Indigenous Law and Legal Education"
John Borrows, McGill Law Journal Volume 61 Issue 1 (2016): Special Issue Indigenous Law and Legal Pluralism
"Reconciliation Through Relationality in Indigenous Legal Orders"
Alan Hanna, Alberta Law Review Volume 56 Issue 3 p817-840 (2019)
Going Circular: Indigenous Legal Research Methodology as Legal Practice
Alan Hanna. 2020 65:4 McGill Law Journal

The Oxford handbook of criminal law by Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hörnle (eds)
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Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2014
See Chapter 11 "Indigenous Legal Traditions: Roots to Renaissance" by Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland
Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism by Colleen Shepard and Kirsten Anker (editors)
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Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2012
See p229-245 "Thinking about Indigenous legal orders" by Val Napoleon
Storied communities : narratives of contact and arrival in constituting political community by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber (eds)
Call Number: JC311 S84 2011
Publication Date: 2011
See "Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice" by Johnny Mack at page 286.

Indigenous Law Research Unit

ILRU website
The resources page under "Our Work" on ILRU's website includes Indigenous law resources, community resources, project publications and resources and academic publications.

Gathering the Threads: Developing A Methodology for Researching and Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions by Hadley Friedland & Val Napoleon
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2015
Discusses ILRU research methodology

"An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions Through Stories"
Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland, (2016) McGill LJ Journal 61:4 at 725
Video: The Indigenous Law Research Unit's Methodology Explained by Hadley Friedland

Analytical Frameworks:

Examples of projects using the ILRU Methodology:

Secwépemc lands and resources Law Research Project by Jessica Asch
Call Number: KID7 S58A84 2016 (print)
Publication Date: 2016
Online version available - click on the blue book icon.
Gender inside Indigenous law casebook by Lindberg, Darcy, author, editor.
Publication Date: 2016
Gender Inside Indigenous Law Toolkit by Lindberg, Darcy, author, editor.
Publication Date: 2016

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