Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-Determination

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P.G. McHugh (Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington)

Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law

A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-Determination

P.G. McHugh (Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington)

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English

Oxford University Press
01 January 2005

Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; Civil rights & citizenship; Land rights; Common law

This book describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal peoples of North America and Australasia.

It is a history of the role of anglophone law in managing relations between the British settlers and indigenous peoples. That history runs from the plantation of Ireland and settlement of the New World to the end of the Twentieth century.

The book begins by looking at the nature of British imperialism and the position of non-Christian peoples at large in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. It then focuses on North America and Australasia from their early national periods in the Nineteenth century to the modern era. The historical basis of relations is described through the key, enduring, but constantly shifting questions of sovereignty, status and, more latterly, self-determination.

Throughout the history of engagement with common law legalism, questions surrounding the settler-state's recognition - or otherwise - of the integrity of the tribe have recurred.

These issues were addressed in many and varied imperial and colonial contexts, but all jurisdictions have shared remarkable historical parallels which have been accentuated by their common legal heritage.

The same questioning continues today in the renewed and controversial claims of the tribal societies to a distinct constitutional position and associated rights of self-determination.

Mc Hugh examines the political resurgence of aboriginal peoples in the last quarter of the Twentieth century.

A period of 'rights-recognition' was transformed into a second-generation jurisprudence of rights-management and rights-integration.

From the 1990s onwards, aboriginal affairs have been driven by an increasingly rampant legalism.

Throughout this history, the common law's encounter with tribal peoples not only describes its view of the aboriginal, but also reveals a considerable amount about the common law itself as a language of thought.

This is a history of the voyaging common law.

By: P.G. McHugh (Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge Tutor of Sidney Sussex College and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 1.178kg
ISBN: 9780198252481
ISBN 10: 019825248X
Pages: 680
Publication Date: 01 January 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The juridical status of non-Christian polities (to the end of the eighteenth century) Chapter Three: Aboriginal sovereignty and status in the 'Empire(s) of Uniformity' Chapter Four: A history of aboriginal status - the legal recognition of the individual and the group Chapter 5: aboriginal societies and international law: a history of sovereignty, status and land Chapter 6: An overview of the era of aboriginal self-determination Chapter 7: Achieving recognition during the 1970s and '80s- foundations for a modern jurisprudence Chapter 8: Moving beyond recognition: aboriginal governance in the turbulent 1990s Chapter 9: Living Together Less Contentiously: the Jurisprucence of Reconciliation in the 1990s

Dr. P. G. McHugh is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.

Reviews for Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-Determination

This book is big in every way--length, scope, complexity, success, and importance. The book is a tremendous achievement that ought to be read by anyone interested in the sovereignty of the indigenous people pase or present anywhere in the world. --Law and History Review<br> .,. a richly crafted treatment of a worthy topic of immediate as well as historical significance. McHugh has performed a tremendous service in synthesizing the enormous scholarly, judicial, and legislative literatures pertaining to each of his subject jurisdictions, and he has done so without sacrificing the subtle distinctions that constitute a living law. --International Journal of Legal Information<br>