Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Paperback

Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws, and Canada's constitutional narratives. Two significant statements by the current Liberal government - the May 2016 address by Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations and the September 2017 address to the United Nations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - have endorsed UNDRIP and committed Canada to implementing it as "a way forward" on the path to genuine nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous peoples. In response, these essays engage with the legal, historical, political, and practical aspects of UNDRIP implementation. Written by Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders, and guided by the metaphor of braiding international, domestic, and Indigenous laws into a strong, unified whole composed of distinct parts, the book makes visible the possibilities for reconciliation from different angles and under different lenses.

John Borrows is senior fellow with the International Law Research Program (ILRP) at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Larry Chartrand is academic director of the Native Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Oonagh E. Fitzgerald is director of the ILRP at CIGI. Risa Schwartz is a former senior research fellow at CIGI and principal of Risa Schwartz International Law.