The University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law has launched a new research initiative focused on helping Indigenous communities renew and rebuild their legal systems, with the support of a $10M investment from the Law Foundation of BC. The Next Steps: Rebuilding Indigenous Law initiative will help Indigenous communities rebuild their legal orders and revitalize and apply their own legal traditions to respond to today’s realities. The university states that this process will serve as a model of Indigenous self-determination that could inspire other initiatives around the world. “What we’re doing is making visible and cognizable Indigenous ways of Indigenous legal thought, Indigenous legal processes and ways that people hold each other accountable, and ways that we can take care of one another,” said UVic Next Steps project lead Val Napoleon.
