Aboriginal title : the modern jurisprudence of tribal land rights / P. G. McHugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, Paul G., 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples.

Land tenure--Law and legislation--History.

Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (868 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes' claims to justiciable property rights over their traditional lands, catapulting these up the national agenda and jolting them out of a previous culture of governmental inattention. In a series of breakthroughcases national courts adopted the argument developed first in western Canada, and then New Zealand and Australia by a han

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Table of Cases; List of Abbreviations; 1. Profile of a Modern Jurisprudence-An Idea whose Time had Come; 2. Common Law Aboriginal Title and its Pipers at the Gate of Dawn-Gestation (1970s) and Breakthrough (1980s); 3. Doctrinal Pathways in Canada and Australia-The Devil in the Detail of a Maturing Jurisprudence; 4. Aboriginal Title in the New Century and New Contexts: Fraternal Impact, International Influence; 5. Aboriginal Title Within and Across Disciplinary Boundaries-Anthropologists, Historians, and Political Philosophers

6. Aboriginal Title-Diagnosis and PrognosisSelect Bibliography; Index; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-349) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-173213-3

0-19-102977-7

0-19-101854-6

OCLC:

870087722