From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights - Softcover

Patrick Macklem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442628855 ISBN 13: 9781442628854

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed 'the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.' Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies in Canada, the constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal and treaty rights has proven to be only the beginning of the long and complicated process of giving meaning to that constitutional recognition. In From Recognition to Reconciliation, twenty leading scholars reflect on the continuing transformation of the constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The book features essays on themes such as the role of sovereignty in constitutional jurisprudence, the diversity of methodologies at play in these legal and political questions, and connections between the Canadian constitutional experience and developments elsewhere in the world.

About this title

Review:

'This book provides the essential underpinnings for future attempts to convey to Canadians the complexities of their evolving relationship with the first nations.'

- Neil Vallance - BC Studies winter 2016/17

About the Author:

Patrick Macklem is the William C. Graham Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Douglas Sanderson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1442628855
• ISBN 13: 9781442628854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Patrick Macklem, Douglas Sanderson