Can the Law Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street Urbana
Native peoples around the world have experienced varying degrees of success in securing their rights to cultural survival within the legal systems of their own countries. Many groups in recent years, however, have increasingly turned to the international human rights system as a more effective arena for voicing their concerns. The law is the basic source of order in a modern state; but which source of law–the domestic law of the conqueror or international human rights law–can best protect Native peoples whom the state often seeks to marginalize and dispossess?
Hosted by: Department of History
In conjunction with: African American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, College of Law, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Native American House/American Indian Studies Program
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law, University of Arizona
