Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law

by Irene Watson

Book Overview

For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded. Many appeals for their recognition under international law have been made, but have thus far failed - mainly because international law was itself shaped by colonialism. How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins?

With contributions from critical legal theory, international law, politics, philosophy and Indigenous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113864515X
• ISBN13: 9781138645158
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"