12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Indigenous Law in Practice: Competent Legal Decision-Making in a Changing Canadian Landscape

Canadian legal practice increasingly takes place within a multi-juridical landscape where Indigenous legal orders, constitutional rights, and UNDRIP principles meaningfully shape decision-making. Indigenous Peoples and Nations are rights-holders and, increasingly, partners, proponents, and governing authorities. Lawyers across sectors are being called upon to engage with Indigenous law earlier, more substantively, and with greater legal and cultural competence than in the past.

Enhance your understanding of how Indigenous law is being integrated into Canadian legal practice today, particularly in regulatory decision-making, project development, and governance. Examine what competent, respectful legal advice looks like now —when courts and regulators are paying closer attention to how Indigenous laws, perspectives, and governance structures are considered in real decisions.

Strengthen your ability to:

• Recognize when Indigenous legal orders and constitutional obligations are engaged.
• Understand how courts are applying UNDRIP principles in decision-making review.
• Advise on evolving partnership and equity-based relationships with Indigenous Nations.
• Assess how the quality of engagement and decision-making is evaluated by regulators and courts.
• Support outcomes that are legally sound, respectful, and durable.
   

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