UVic Law professor, grandmother, painter, and activist, Val Napoleon was featured in the Globe and Mail earlier this week. The article, “Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon embraces disruption” goes into her life experience and involvement in Indigenous legal issues.
Napoleon has made numerous contributions to the development of Indigenous law in Canada such as establishing the Indigenous Law Research Unit and supporting Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en in their indigenous land claim that resulted in the landmark Supreme Court of Canada case Delgamuukw v British Columbia, [1997] 3 SCR 1010. Just last September, she was named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Check out the full Globe and Mail article here for more!