Indigenous lawyer gets UNBC honorary degree
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...
Gitanyow Gitxsan Indigenous Law Research Unit University Of Victoria University Of Northern British Columbia On Indigenous Law Degree Program Val Napoleon
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