Business Implications of Aboriginal Law

This is a collection of 12 papers examining how recent aboriginal law developments create opportunities and challenges for economic developments in both Indigenous communities and the Canadian economy. It offers a unique discussion of how aboriginal public law connects to private law and serves to present practical advice to those who are involved in business with Indigenous communities.

Features

• Unique subject matter - badly needed resource for those involved in aboriginal businesses
• Expert Insights from leading aboriginal law practitioners and advisers, including former Supreme Court judge The Hon. Ian Binnie - keep abreast of recent developments in the field and their implications for current operations of businesses involving aboriginal communities
• Practical advice - help make sound business decisions and formulate strategies to advance potential economic opportunities involving aboriginal communities

The Collection of Papers

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Business Implications from a Public Law Doctrine: Judicial Interpretations of Canada's Indigenous Rights Clause and their Relationship to Economic Reconciliation - Dwight Newman

PART II: CONTEXTS FOR UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS OF ABORIGINAL LAW

2. Business and Indigenous Rights: Reflection After 35 Years of Talking About Section 35 - The Honourable Ian Binnie
3. Reconciliation: From Principle to Practice - Thomas Isaac
4. Indigenous Business and Canadian Law: Defining Commercial Opportunities for Indigenous Entrepreneurs and Communities - Ken Coates and Blaine Favel

PART III: ECONOMICS AND ABORIGINAL LAW

5. Market Reactions to Aboriginal Rights: A Look at Canada's Resource Industries - Cherie Metcalf
6. Aboriginal Title Claims to Private Land and the Legal Relevance of Disruptive Effects - Malcolm Lavoie

PART IV: STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF ABORIGINAL RIGHTS

7. Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Major Project Development in an Era of Evolving Section 35 Jurisprudence - Bernard J. Roth
8. Navigating a Changing Landscape: Challenges and Practical Approaches for Project Proponents and Indigenous Communities in the Context of the Review and Assessment of Major Projects - Keith Bergner
9. Third Party Rights in the Context of Aboriginal Consultation and Negotiations - Robin M. Junger

PART V: DEVELOPING BUSINESS LAW FOR INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH

10. Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in Canada - Gail E. Henderson
11. Judgment Enforcement Law in Indigenous Communities – Reflections on the Indian Act and Crown Immunity from Execution - Anna Lund
12. Real Property Security on Indigenous Lands - Scott Hitchings

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• Indigenous communities – understand recent changes in the legal landscape so as to better run and develop economic opportunities in their communities
• Government counsel and policy advisers – need to properly understand and interpret recent legal aboriginal law developments to dialogue and work with Indigenous business owners and developers
• In-house counsel of large corporations – learn about current legal landscape pertaining to doing business with Indigenous communities
• Natural resource law practitioners – keep abreast of recent developments in aboriginal law and their implications on current operations of natural resource industries and potential economic opportunities in the future

Business Implications of Aboriginal Law is a collection of papers developed out of Supreme Court Law Review, Second Series.