Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Law & Society) (Law and Society (Hardcover))
By Unknown Author.
Description
In the early 1970s, many questioned whether Aboriginal title existed in Canada and rejected the notion that Aboriginal peoples should have rights different from those of other citizens. But in 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision in the Calder case, confirming that Aboriginal title constituted a right within Canadian law.Let Right Be Done examines the doctrine of Aboriginal title thirty years later and puts the Calder case in its legal, historical, and political context, both nationally and internationally. With its innovative blend of scholarly analysis and input fro...
ISBN(s)
0774814039, 9780774814034
