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Indigenous lawyer to receive honorary UNBC degree SHARE ON: Dr.Val Napoleon (Photo by UNBC) A Northern BC Indigenous lawyer and professor will be receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UNBC during the 2021 virtual convocation. Dr. Val Napoleon is a lawyer, professor and researcher who co-established the first-in-the-world Indigenous Law Degree program at the University of Victoria in 2018. “I am from northern B.C. where I have spent so much of my working life,” said Dr. Napoleon, ...

She co-developed and co-established the first-in-the-world Indigenous Law Degree Program (JID/JD) at UVic in 2018. Students earn two law degrees over four years, an Indigenous law degree and a common law degree. The third cohort began in September 2020, and the fourth cohort joins UVic in September 2021. “I am from northern B.C. where I have spent so much of my working life,” Napoleon said. “This honorary degree is a recognition from the north and of northern people so it really touches...