From Recognition to Reconciliation

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.

• IntroductionPatrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson, Recognition and Reconciliation in Indigenous-Settler Societies  Part I: Reconciling Sovereignties1. Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Peoples and the Ethos of Legal Pluralism in Canada2. Mark D. Walters, “Looking for a knot in the bulrush”: Reflections on Law, Sovereignty and Aboriginal Rights3. Jeremy Webber, We Are Still in the Age of Encounter: Section 35 and a Canada beyond Sovereignty4. Brian Slattery, The Generative Structure of Aboriginal Rights  Part II: Contesting Methodologies5. P.G. McHugh, A Common Law Biography of Section 356. Dale Turner, Indigenous Knowledge and the Reconciliation of Section 35(1)7. Jean Leclair, Military Historiography, Warriors and Soldiers: The Normative Impact of Epistemological Choices  Part III: Constitutional Consultations8. Dwight Newman, Consultation and Economic Reconciliation9. Michael J. Bryant, The State of the Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary Relationship: The Case for an Aboriginal Veto10. Sari Graben & Abbey Sinclair, Administering Consultation at the National Energy Board: Evaluating Tribunal Authority  Part IV: Recognition and Reconciliation in Action11. SÉbastien Grammond, Isabelle Lantagne, & Natacha GagnÉ, Non-Status Indigenous Groups in Canadian Courts: Practical and Legal Difficulties in Seeking Recognition12. Kirsty Gover, Liberal and Tribal Membership Boundaries: Descent, Consent and Section 3513. Douglas Sanderson, Overlapping Consensus, Legislative Reform and the Indian Act14. Courtney Jung, Canada and the Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools: Transitional Justice for Indigenous People in a Non-transitional Society15. Natalia Loukacheva, Nunavut and Self-Reliance: A Quest of an Arctic Entity in Transition  Part V: Comparative Reflections16. Jacinta Ruru, Constitutional Indigenous Treaty Jurisprudence in Aotearoa New Zealand17. Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, Constitutional reform in Australia: Recognition of Indigenous Australians and Reconciliation18. John Borrows, Legislation and Indigenous Self-Determination in Canada and the United States  AfterwordMichael Ignatieff, A Jurisprudence of Jurisdictions

‘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)