For five decades, significant change to the Indigenous rights landscape in Canada has been driven top-down by the Supreme Court of Canada. What happens when that changes? In this talk, Associate Professor Jeremy Patzer (University of Manitoba) explores the growing body of lower-court decisions and new legislation that are reshaping Indigenous rights doctrine independently of the SCC, and what this fragmentation or democratisation of doctrine might mean going forward.
Hosted by the UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
The seminar will be held in Adrian Cameron Room, Level 2, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice.
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Speaker bio
Jeremy Patzer is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous Rights in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. He is Métis and Saulteaux/Aninishinaabe on his mother's side. His research focuses on the work of the courts in determining and shaping Indigenous rights, both within Canada and internationally. He is currently the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant (2025-2029) entitled In law and politics: Advancing Indigenous rights in the contemporary Anglosphere looking at the repertoire of tools and avenues through which Indigenous peoples seek change in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.