Dr. Val Napoleon has been awarded the 2021 Law and Justice Indspire Award. Indspire Awards recognize Indigenous achievement in a number of different areas, and “represents the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows upon it’s own people”.
The award recognizes Val’s lifelong work as a leader in Indigenous law, including establishing the Indigenous Law Research Unit and co-founding the JD/JID program, and her work as the director of both initiatives, as well as her position as the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance at UVic.
A recording of the 2021 Indspire Awards will be available on CBC Gem, along with recordings of past years’ award ceremonies.
Here is a selection of Val Napoleon’s publications accessible through the library:
- Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, & Val Napoleon, eds, Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships (Toronto, UofT Press, 2020). Online.
- Hadley Friedland and Val Napoleon, “Gathering the Threads: Developing a Methodology for Researching and Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions” 1:1 Lakehead Law Journal (2015). Online.
- Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland “An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions Through Stories” 61:4 McGill Law Journal (2016). Online
- Val Napoleon, “What is Indigenous Law: A Small Discussion”. Online.
- Val Napoleon, “Did I Break It?: Recording Indigenous (Customary) Law” Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. 2019. Online.
- Val Napoleon, Ayook : Gitksan legal order, law, and legal theory (PhD Dissertation, University of Victoria, 2009) Online
- Val Napoleon “Living together : Gitksan legal reasoning as a foundation for consent” in Jeremy Webber & Colin M Macleod, eds, Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2010) Call number: JC328.2 B465 2010
- Val Napoleon, “Thinking of Indigenous Legal Orders” Online
- Val Napoleon, Jim Henshaw, Ken Steacy, Janine Johnston, Simon Roy. Mikomosis and the Wetiko (Victoria, B.C. : University of Victoria, Indigenous Law Research Unit, 2013) Call number: KIC4750 M55 2013.
Congratulations Val!
