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Aboriginal title : the modern jurisprudence of tribal land rights
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Aboriginal title : the modern jurisprudence of tribal land rights

Author: Paul G McHugh
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"New analysis of this controversial and rapidly developing area of law by one of the foremost scholars in the field. Provides a compelling account of the evolution of the concept of aboriginal title from its appearance in the early 1980s to its acceptance in contemporary legal thought. Inter-disciplinary in approach, taking into account the work of anthropologists, historians, and political philosophers alongside
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul G McHugh
ISBN: 9780199699414 0199699410
OCLC Number: 733232206
Description: xix, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Profile of a modern jurisprudence : an idea whose time had come --
Common law aboriginal title and its pipers at the gate of dawn : gestation (1970s) and breakthrough (1980s) --
Doctrinal pathways in Canada and Australia : the devil in the detail of a maturing jurisprudence --
Aboriginal title in the new century and new contexts : fraternal impact, international influence --
Aboriginal title within and across disciplinary boundaries : anthropologists, historians, and political philosophers --
Aboriginal title : diagnosis and prognosis.
Responsibility: P. G. McHugh.
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Aboriginal title, the land rights of native peoples in former colonies, is one of the most significant developments in common law in the late-twentieth century. This book, by a key author in this  Read more...

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McHugh's new book is beyond doubt a rich and fascinating contribution to the field. Its full implications will take some time to absorb. Richard Boast, Maori Law Review McHugh...does a fine job of Read more...

 
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schema:description"In a series of breakthrough cases national courts adopted the argument developed first in western Canada, and then New Zealand and Australia by a handful of influential scholars. By the beginning of the millennium the doctrine had spread to Malaysia, Belize, southern Africa and had a profound impact upon the rapid development of international law of indigenous peoples' rights. This book is a history of this doctrine and the explosion of intellectual activity arising from this inrush of legalism into the tribes' relations with the Anglo settler state. The author is one of the key scholars involved from the doctrine's appearance in the early 1980s as an exhortation to the courts, and a figure who has both witnessed and contributed to its acceptance and subsequent pattern of development."
schema:description"He looks critically at the early conceptualisation of the doctrine, its doctrinal elaboration in Canada and Australia - the busiest jurisdictions - through a proprietary paradigm located primarily (and constrictively) inside adjudicative processes. He also considers the issues of inter-disciplinary thought and practice arising from national legal systems' recognition of aboriginal land rights, including the emergent and associated themes of self-determination that surfaced more overtly during the 1990s and after. The doctrine made modern legal history, and it is still making it."--pub. website."
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