En partenariat avec le Centre d’analyse politique - Constitution et fédéralisme et le Département des sciences juridiques de l’UQAM, le CIERA-MTL vous convie à une conférence de Kerry Sloan ayant pour thème "Metis Laws: Sites of Transsystemia".

Le 7 novembre, le cours « Droit des peuples autochtones » donné par la professeure Doris Farget, ouvre ses portes au public. Ce sera l’occasion également pour le Centre d'analyse politique - Constitution et fédéralisme (CAP-CF) de faire le lancement de l'axe « Peuples autochtones, droit et justice sociale ».

Rendez-vous à 18H au DS-1950 de l' UQAM (320, rue Sainte-Catherine Est).

Résumé de la présentation:
Metis law is complex and has many sources: Indigenous and European (especially French); oral and written; traditional and modern. However, while Metis law inherits Indigenous and European ideas, it is not simply just a "mix" of systems. In this talk, Dr Sloan will look specifically at Metis harvesting and conservation laws, as well as at adaptations of the traditional Québecois "long lot" system of property holding. She will suggest that Metis laws are sites that illustrate the multijuridical nature (Indigenous law, civil law, common law) of law in Canada.

Kerry Sloan will be joining McGill's Faculty of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Saskatchewan College of Law and was last year's Boulton Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill Law. Dr Sloan completed her PhD in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and has practised Aboriginal law and general litigation in BC and Alberta. She is a governing council member of the Metis Nation of Greater Victoria, and is affiliated with CIGI’s International Indigenous Law Research Program. Dr Sloan’s work focuses on Metis law and legal concerns, as well as on Indigenous multijuridicalism.

La présentation se fera en anglais, mais ensuite les questions pourront être posées en français.

***Photo : Métis guide Maxime Marion, Lake of the Woods, Ontario | Library and Archives Canada***