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Profound lessons from indigenous law, John Borrows

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Profound lessons from indigenous law

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John Borrows

This episode of The Green Interview features John Borrows, one of Canada's most prolific and celebrated legal scholars and a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Borrows, who is Anishinaabe and a member of the Cape Croker First Nation in Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, has written and spoken widely on aboriginal legal rights and traditions, treaties and land claims, and religion and the law. He points out that the treaties are two-way agreements that affect the rights of both indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians - and they were meant to guide the relationships between the two groups forever. They granted rights to people on both sides, but they imposed obligations too. And those obligations and rights can help us live peacefully with each other and with nature. In this Green Interview, Borrows offers a bracing vision of what law really is, where it finds its roots and its authority, and how aboriginal law fits into the Canadian legal fabric

John Borrows Introduced (1:07) -- Defining Law (1:19) -- Indigenous Law (4:02) -- Native Americans and Western Law (2:05) -- Morality and Law (1:43) -- Law More than Power (1:37) -- Settler Customs and Law (3:13) -- Defending Constitutional Tradition (4:40) -- Nature of Law (1:44) -- Complexity of Person's Character (3:55) -- Analogies for Guidance (4:00) -- Language and Law (5:08) -- Tradition and Evolution (3:50) -- Law Coexistence (2:21) -- Connecting with Indigenous Law (5:06) -- Respecting Indigenous Law (1:55) -- Tough-Minded Indigenous Law (6:04) -- Treaties (4:28) -- Implications of Sentient Earth (5:17) -- Environmental Rights (2:30) -- Additional Resources & Credits: Profound Lessons from Indigenous Law: John Borrows (0:50)

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