Congratulations to Professor Val Napoleon, who was awarded the Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation from the Indigenous Bar Association at this year’s IBA Annual Conference on October 14. The Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation is awarded to an Aboriginal lawyer in recognition of outstanding achievements in the practice of law and service to her community and the Creator.
Val is the Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Justice and Governance and the Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit at UVic and is a leading scholar in Indigenous law in Canada.
Check out some of Professor Napoleon’s scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:
- Val Napoleon, “Tsilhqot’in Law of Consent” (2015) 48:3 University of British Columbia Law Review 873.
- Val Napoleon & Hadley Friedland, “Gathering the Threads: Developing a Methodology for Researching and Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions” (2015) 1:1 Lakehead Law Journal 16.
- Emily Snyder, Val Napoleon & John Burrows, “Gender and Violence: Drawing on Indigenous Legal Resources” (2015) 48:2 University of British Columbia Law Review 593.
- Val Napoleon & Hadley Friedland, “Accessing Tully: Political Philosophy for the Everyday and the Everyone” in Robert Nichols & Jakeet Singh, eds, Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully (New York: Routledge, 2014). Call Number: JC423 F7517 2014
- Val Napoleon, “Thinking about Indigenous Legal Orders” in René Provost & Colleen Sheppard, eds, Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (New York: Springer, 2013). ELECTRONIC
- Val Napoleon, “Living Together: Gitksan Legal Reasoning as a Foundation for Consent” in Jeremy Webber & Colin McLeod, eds, Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010). Call Number: JC328.2 B465 2010
- Val Napoleon “Aboriginal Discourse: Gender, Identity and Community” in Benjamin J Richardson, Shin Imai & Kent McNeil, eds, Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart, 2009). Call Number: K3247 I53 2009
- Catherine Bell & Val Napoleon, eds, First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008). Call Number: E78 C2F57 2008
Congratulations Val!