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Professor Val Napoleon on Activism, Indigenous Law & Disrupting Things

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!

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Congratulations to Alisa Lazear for Completing her MLIS Degree

Uvic Law Librarian Intern, Alisa Lazear, graduated with a Master of Library and Information Studies from UBC last week.

Alisa was previously a co-op student working at the UVic Libraries Copyright Office and has been enjoying her recent internship at the Priestly Law Library. Check out her latest project on a series of short video tutorials on Federal Legislative Research: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/lrw/

Make sure to say hello before the end of her internship this March!

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Pay down your library fines with food donations

Food for Fines: Is an annual food drive put on by UVic Libraries and Campus Security Services (CSS). Each year UVic Libraries offers relief from library fines in exchange for non-perishable food items or personal needs items which are then donated to the Mustard Seed Food Bank and the UVic Student Society’s Food Bank.

How it works: For every non-perishable food item or personal item, like toothbrushes or soap, we will take $2 off your fines up to $20. You can also ‘pay’ for your fines, but ask that up to $20 of your fines be donated to the food banks instead of the libraries. Even if you don’t have any fines, we encourage on campus and off campus donations to help fill local food bank shelves.

When and where: The Food for Fines drive runs from December 1st until December 15th. Donations can be dropped off at any library branch.

Want more information? Check out the  Libraries’ Food for Fines webpage.

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Summer Listening

Last year we we provided a few law related podcast recommendations to tide students over until the start of September classes. Below are this year’s  recommendations.

Indian & Cowboy

The first on our list isn’t a single podcast but an online media  platform ‘at the intersection of Indigenous storytelling, digital media and technology’. Indian & Cowboy features a several engaging and creative podcast worth a listen.

Below are just a few of the podcasts and episodes on the Indian & Cowboy platform touching upon law.  Be sure to check out the debut episode of Five Questions With featuring UVic Law Professor John Borrows:

 

Common Law Radio:

Next up on our Summer listening list is Common Law Radio. Based in Vancouver, each episode of Common Law Radio covers in-depth a current and topical legal issue relevant to British Columbia and Canada.   Each episode includes the perspectives of the lawyers and individuals involved in the issue. Below are a sampling of the episodes:

 

What Trump can Teach us about Con Law:

Looking for a crash course on the US constitution? Check out What Trump can Teach us about Con Law a new podcast created by Roman Mars – the voice behind the design podcast 99% Invisible – and Elizabeth Joh – Professor  at UC Davis School of Law. Each episode covers a different section of the Constitution of the United States of America and places it in the current political landscape in the US.

Happy listening!