Archive for the ‘law’ Category
Maria Giannacopoulos, ‘The Nomos of Apologia’, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009. Abstract: On 13 February 2008, the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, offered an apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous peoples – an apology he said he offered ‘without qualification’. His ‘unqualified’ apology, however, was crafted for the […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
From maorinews: The Government is on the verge of offering the Tūhoe tribe a treaty settlement that could be as groundbreaking as it is controversial. Tūhoe is hoping it will mean total control of the Urewera National Park, and start the tribe on the way to self-rule and becoming a separate nation. But the Government […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
David Fautsch, ‘An Analysis of Article 28 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Proposals for Reform’, Michigan Journal of International Law 31, 2 (2010). via TurtleTalk TOC: Introduction………………………………………………………………………….. 450 I. Article 28 in the Courts: A Theoretical Analysis ……. 454 A. Repeat Players and One-Shotters……………………………….. 454 B. Article 28 […]
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Desmond Manderson, ‘Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law’, Arena, October 2009. From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal […]
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The latest on the Israeli Pass System, from BBC News: Israel has imposed a military order which rights groups say could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the occupied West Bank. […] It classifies people without the right Israeli paperwork as “infiltrators”. […] The wording of the order, known as the Order Regarding […]
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Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2010. via Turtletalk An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current […]
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Joe Singer, ‘The Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity”, Indian Law Journal, forthcoming. via TurtleTalk Abstract: First possession is said to be the root of title but the first possession theory suffers from two major defects. First, land titles in the United States originate in acts of conquest, […]
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Arion T. Mayes, ‘These Bones are Read: The Science and Politics of Ancient Native America’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 2 (2010). In lieu of an abstract, here is part of the introduction: Each Native American culture and nation has differing beliefs as to the treatment of human remains. Some are adamantly opposed to any […]
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The Zimbabwean phenomenon briefly touched upon in the post “Second Thoughts on Land Seizures in Southern Africa” is certainly a complex issue. Two important recent studies on the topic have surfaced in recent months. Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones, “Contested Paradigms of ‘Viability’ in Redistributive Land Reform: Perspectives from Southern Africa”, Journal of Peasant Studies, […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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