Trouble with Tradition : Native Title and Cultural Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Simon (Solicitor), author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Native title (Australia).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (526 pages))

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Federation Press, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book offers a fundamental analysis of native title in the common law world. Through a broad and detailed examination of the jurisprudence across Australia, USA, New Zealand and Canada, it argues that the Australian preoccupation with 'tradition' is a deeply flawed approach.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Living Together in Country

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Cases and Guide to Citations

Table of Statutes

Introduction

Indigenous Change: A Legal Challenge

Overview of this Book

The Nature of the Analysis

Terminology

The Importance of the Issues

Part I - The Comparative Context

1. Native Title in Australia

2. A Snapshot of the Key Comparative Jurisdictions

2.1 The United States

2.2 Canada

2.3 New Zealand

3. A Defence of Comparative Analysis

3.1 The Australian Resistance

3.2 The Necessity of Comparison

3.3 Impassable Contextual Differences?

3.4 Conclusions on Cross-jurisdictional Comparison

Part II - The Conceptualisation of Native Title in the Key Comparative Jurisdictions

4. The United States

4.1 'Indian title' under the Marshall Principles

4.2 The Contemporary US Case Law

5. Canada

5.1 The Canadian 'Title' Doctrine - pre-Delgamuukw

5.2 Delgamuukw

5.3 Constitutionalisation and the Doctrine of Specific 'Aboriginal rights'

6. New Zealand

6.1 The New Zealand Prehistory: Early Recognition and Conversion

6.2 Maori Interests under the Contemporary Treaty and Common Law Jurisprudence

7. The Basic Tenets of the Comparative Doctrines

7.1 A Broad Conceptualisation of the 'Title' Interest

7.2 A Focus on the Survival of the Interest Itself

7.3 Pre-existing Societies in Occupation of Lands

Part III - Mabo Re-visited

8. Pre-Mabo Precedent

8.1 The pre-Mabo Legal Landscape in Overview

8.2 A Growing Emphasis on 'Law and Custom'

8.3 The Nature of the Aboriginal Interest

8.4 Constancy and Continuity of Laws, Customs and Lifestyle?

8.5 Summary: the Legal Backdrop to Mabo (No 2)

9. Laws, Customs and 'Tradition' in the Original Mabo Decision.

9.1 The Textual Source of the 'Tradition' Restrictions

9.2 Patent Ambiguity and 200 Neglected Pages

9.3 The Importance of Context

9.4 Mabo: Right, Wrong, Oversimplified or Misunderstood?

Part IV - Post-Mabo: The Australian Anomaly

10. Statutory Intervention

10.1 A Superficially Restrictive Statutory Definition

10.2 A Rationalisation of the Statutory Definition

11. Continuing Encouragement for the 'Laws and Customs' Focus

11.1 The Parties' Arguments

11.2 The Courts' Perspective

12. The Excesses in the Australian Case Law

12.1 Terminology and Selective Quoting

12.2 Definitional Over-specificity

12.3 Over-particularity in the Constancy and Continuity Requirement

12.4 A Restrictive Interpretation of 'Law and Custom'

12.5 Summary

Part V - A Reinterpretation of the Australian Native Title Doctrine

13. A Final Critique of the Stricter Australian Approach

13.1 The Problems with Definitional Over-specificity

13.2 The Problems with an Overly Particular Constancy and Continuity Requirement

13.3 The Problems with a Restrictive Interpretation of 'Law and Custom'

13.4 The Excesses Combined: Overemphasis on 'Tradition' and Intolerance of Change

13.5 Does the Tradition-focused Methodology have a Redeeming Function?

13.6 The Comparative Jurisdictions Revisited

14. Glimpses of a less 'Tradition'-focused Methodology

14.1 Alternative Thinking on Content

14.2 Alternative Thinking on Proof

14.3 Recognition of the Critical Doctrinal Distinctions

14.4 Viable Alternatives to the Strict Methodology?

15. Three-point Plan: A Way Forward for Native Title in Australia

Three-point Plan in Operation (diagram)

16. Concluding Comments

Index

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Notes:

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Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Young, Simon Trouble with Tradition

ISBN:

9781862877139

OCLC:

657311864

Publisher Number:

EBC564540

Access Restriction:

1 online resource