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UVic is building an expansion to the Fraser Building to house a National Centre for Indigenous Laws. Learn more at our two upcoming open houses on June 15 & 16. The project team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Rob Lapper remembers a time when his law classes were scattered in makeshift rooms in a building behind the MacPherson library. “Faculty offices were all kind of crowded together over there. There was a student lounge at one end, and an entry way at the other end, and a hallway in between,” he recalls. “You had to actually walk through the bathrooms to get to the student lounge.”

We're accepting applications for two positions: Manager, Law Careers Office & Assistant to the Associate Dean

Indigenous rights advocate, UVic law graduate, and Cowichan Tribes Chief Lydia Hwitsum is one of this year’s recipients of the University of Victoria Indigenous Community Alumni Award.

UVic is building an expansion to the Fraser Building to house a National Centre for Indigenous Laws. Learn more at our two upcoming open houses on June 15 & 16. The project team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Rob Lapper remembers a time when his law classes were scattered in makeshift rooms in a building behind the MacPherson library. “Faculty offices were all kind of crowded together over there. There was a student lounge at one end, and an entry way at the other end, and a hallway in between,” he recalls. “You had to actually walk through the bathrooms to get to the student lounge.”

We're accepting applications for two positions: Manager, Law Careers Office & Assistant to the Associate Dean

Madeleine Redfern is a UVic law graduate, businessperson, community advocate, former mayor of Iqaluit, and one of this year’s select recipients of the UVic Alumni Association’s highest honour—the Presidents’ Alumni Award.

UVic is building an expansion to the Fraser Building to house a National Centre for Indigenous Laws. Learn more at our two upcoming open houses on June 15 & 16. The project team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Rob Lapper remembers a time when his law classes were scattered in makeshift rooms in a building behind the MacPherson library. “Faculty offices were all kind of crowded together over there. There was a student lounge at one end, and an entry way at the other end, and a hallway in between,” he recalls. “You had to actually walk through the bathrooms to get to the student lounge.”

We're accepting applications for two positions: Manager, Law Careers Office & Assistant to the Associate Dean

JD/JID student Rebekah Smith is this year’s recipient of the Ann Roberts Humanitarian Award

We're hiring for several staff positions. Keep checking back here for updates.

Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon has been appointed interim Dean of Law from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Napoleon is the director of the Indigenous law degree program at UVic and of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, which she co-founded in 2012 to partner with Indigenous communities, helping them to research, re-articulate and rebuild their laws. She also holds the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance, has been named a Canadian Indigenous Bar Association People’s Counsel—a rare distinction awarded to a First Nations, Inuit, or Metis lawyer for “outstanding achievements in the practice of law"—a L’expert Zenith Award, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2017. In 2021 she received a national Indspire Award and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from UNBC.

Supriya Routh is a co-investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant with McMaster Faculty of Social Science’s Judy Fudge (Principal investigator) and UVic Faculty of Political Science’s Marlea Clarke (Co-investigator), and is a co-investigator in an international socio-legal project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2021-2024) led by Julie Motte-Baumvol (Université de Paris), titled: Social Protection for Ageing Migrants in a Globalized World: Building Bridges between National, Regional, and International Law for Old-Age Pension Rights.

We are delighted to welcome Darcy Lindberg (back) to the faculty of Law. Darcy completed his Ph.D at UVic and has been teaching at the University of Alberta for the past few years. Darcy is mixed-rooted Plains Cree, and has taught courses at the University of Alberta on constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, treaties, and Indigenous environmental legal orders.

JD/JID student Rebekah Smith is this year’s recipient of the Ann Roberts Humanitarian Award

We're hiring for several staff positions. Keep checking back here for updates.

Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon has been appointed interim Dean of Law from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Napoleon is the director of the Indigenous law degree program at UVic and of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, which she co-founded in 2012 to partner with Indigenous communities, helping them to research, re-articulate and rebuild their laws. She also holds the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance, has been named a Canadian Indigenous Bar Association People’s Counsel—a rare distinction awarded to a First Nations, Inuit, or Metis lawyer for “outstanding achievements in the practice of law"—a L’expert Zenith Award, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2017. In 2021 she received a national Indspire Award and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from UNBC.

Supriya Routh is a co-investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant with McMaster Faculty of Social Science’s Judy Fudge (Principal investigator) and UVic Faculty of Political Science’s Marlea Clarke (Co-investigator), and is a co-investigator in an international socio-legal project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2021-2024) led by Julie Motte-Baumvol (Université de Paris), titled: Social Protection for Ageing Migrants in a Globalized World: Building Bridges between National, Regional, and International Law for Old-Age Pension Rights.

We are delighted to welcome Darcy Lindberg (back) to the faculty of Law. Darcy completed his Ph.D at UVic and has been teaching at the University of Alberta for the past few years. Darcy is mixed-rooted Plains Cree, and has taught courses at the University of Alberta on constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, treaties, and Indigenous environmental legal orders.

Madeleine Redfern is a UVic law graduate, businessperson, community advocate, former mayor of Iqaluit, and one of this year’s select recipients of the UVic Alumni Association’s highest honour—the Presidents’ Alumni Award.

UVic is building an expansion to the Fraser Building to house a National Centre for Indigenous Laws. Learn more at our two upcoming open houses on June 15 & 16. The project team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Rob Lapper remembers a time when his law classes were scattered in makeshift rooms in a building behind the MacPherson library. “Faculty offices were all kind of crowded together over there. There was a student lounge at one end, and an entry way at the other end, and a hallway in between,” he recalls. “You had to actually walk through the bathrooms to get to the student lounge.”

We're accepting applications for two positions: Manager, Law Careers Office & Assistant to the Associate Dean

Indigenous rights advocate, UVic law graduate, and Cowichan Tribes Chief Lydia Hwitsum is one of this year’s recipients of the University of Victoria Indigenous Community Alumni Award.

UVic is building an expansion to the Fraser Building to house a National Centre for Indigenous Laws. Learn more at our two upcoming open houses on June 15 & 16. The project team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Rob Lapper remembers a time when his law classes were scattered in makeshift rooms in a building behind the MacPherson library. “Faculty offices were all kind of crowded together over there. There was a student lounge at one end, and an entry way at the other end, and a hallway in between,” he recalls. “You had to actually walk through the bathrooms to get to the student lounge.”

We're accepting applications for two positions: Manager, Law Careers Office & Assistant to the Associate Dean

JD/JID student Rebekah Smith is this year’s recipient of the Ann Roberts Humanitarian Award

We're hiring for several staff positions. Keep checking back here for updates.

Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon has been appointed interim Dean of Law from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Napoleon is the director of the Indigenous law degree program at UVic and of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, which she co-founded in 2012 to partner with Indigenous communities, helping them to research, re-articulate and rebuild their laws. She also holds the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance, has been named a Canadian Indigenous Bar Association People’s Counsel—a rare distinction awarded to a First Nations, Inuit, or Metis lawyer for “outstanding achievements in the practice of law"—a L’expert Zenith Award, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2017. In 2021 she received a national Indspire Award and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from UNBC.

Supriya Routh is a co-investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant with McMaster Faculty of Social Science’s Judy Fudge (Principal investigator) and UVic Faculty of Political Science’s Marlea Clarke (Co-investigator), and is a co-investigator in an international socio-legal project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2021-2024) led by Julie Motte-Baumvol (Université de Paris), titled: Social Protection for Ageing Migrants in a Globalized World: Building Bridges between National, Regional, and International Law for Old-Age Pension Rights.

We are delighted to welcome Darcy Lindberg (back) to the faculty of Law. Darcy completed his Ph.D at UVic and has been teaching at the University of Alberta for the past few years. Darcy is mixed-rooted Plains Cree, and has taught courses at the University of Alberta on constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, treaties, and Indigenous environmental legal orders.

JD/JID student Rebekah Smith is this year’s recipient of the Ann Roberts Humanitarian Award

We're hiring for several staff positions. Keep checking back here for updates.

Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon has been appointed interim Dean of Law from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Napoleon is the director of the Indigenous law degree program at UVic and of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, which she co-founded in 2012 to partner with Indigenous communities, helping them to research, re-articulate and rebuild their laws. She also holds the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance, has been named a Canadian Indigenous Bar Association People’s Counsel—a rare distinction awarded to a First Nations, Inuit, or Metis lawyer for “outstanding achievements in the practice of law"—a L’expert Zenith Award, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2017. In 2021 she received a national Indspire Award and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from UNBC.

Supriya Routh is a co-investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant with McMaster Faculty of Social Science’s Judy Fudge (Principal investigator) and UVic Faculty of Political Science’s Marlea Clarke (Co-investigator), and is a co-investigator in an international socio-legal project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2021-2024) led by Julie Motte-Baumvol (Université de Paris), titled: Social Protection for Ageing Migrants in a Globalized World: Building Bridges between National, Regional, and International Law for Old-Age Pension Rights.

We are delighted to welcome Darcy Lindberg (back) to the faculty of Law. Darcy completed his Ph.D at UVic and has been teaching at the University of Alberta for the past few years. Darcy is mixed-rooted Plains Cree, and has taught courses at the University of Alberta on constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, treaties, and Indigenous environmental legal orders.

JD/JID student Rebekah Smith is this year’s recipient of the Ann Roberts Humanitarian Award

We're hiring for several staff positions. Keep checking back here for updates.

Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon has been appointed interim Dean of Law from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Napoleon is the director of the Indigenous law degree program at UVic and of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, which she co-founded in 2012 to partner with Indigenous communities, helping them to research, re-articulate and rebuild their laws. She also holds the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance, has been named a Canadian Indigenous Bar Association People’s Counsel—a rare distinction awarded to a First Nations, Inuit, or Metis lawyer for “outstanding achievements in the practice of law"—a L’expert Zenith Award, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2017. In 2021 she received a national Indspire Award and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from UNBC.

Supriya Routh is a co-investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant with McMaster Faculty of Social Science’s Judy Fudge (Principal investigator) and UVic Faculty of Political Science’s Marlea Clarke (Co-investigator), and is a co-investigator in an international socio-legal project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2021-2024) led by Julie Motte-Baumvol (Université de Paris), titled: Social Protection for Ageing Migrants in a Globalized World: Building Bridges between National, Regional, and International Law for Old-Age Pension Rights.

We are delighted to welcome Darcy Lindberg (back) to the faculty of Law. Darcy completed his Ph.D at UVic and has been teaching at the University of Alberta for the past few years. Darcy is mixed-rooted Plains Cree, and has taught courses at the University of Alberta on constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, treaties, and Indigenous environmental legal orders.

The UVic Faculty of Law presents: Indigenous Law: Today and Tomorrow with John Borrows and Val Napoleon 7:30 p.m. Farquhar Auditorium, University of Victoria. Join Chancellor Shelagh Rogers, Indigenous leaders, community members, and scholars to mark this historic moment as we celebrate the launch of the world’s first Indigenous law degree. Dr. Borrows will explore Salish Law and Land: Lessons Learned and Dr. Napoleon will look at the future of Indigenous Law: Fast Forward. This free public lecture has reserved seating.

Shiri Pasternak presents "What is colonialism that does not dispossess? Ecologies of Care and Supply at Barriere Lake." This presentation examines the materialities of colonialism from the perspective of a present-day Algonquin community in northern Quebec.

Join us in celebrating the Law Class of '93! This reunion will be a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with fellow grads! Saturday, September 15, 2018 4:00 pm: Meet and greet with classmates and former professors in the Fraser Building 6:00 pm: Dinner & Dance at the University Club Cost: $125 per person (includes catering, gratuity and taxes) Sunday, September 16, 2018 10:00 am: Golf (optional, not included in above price) at Cordova Bay Golf Course If you have any questions, please contact Liz Eby, Law Alumni Relations Officer at lawalum@uvic.ca or 250-853-3518.