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 my heart. I am hoping that children, young adults, grandmothers, everyone – from every part of no...
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