The Person and the Window Colonialism Structuralism and the Possibilities of Transsystemic Law

Abstract

Building on recent work on the corporate personhood of Indigenous legal bodies, this paper presents an inquiry into the ways background notions of structural anthropology can encroach on attempts to think about and characterize Indigenous Juridical Orders.

Description

First talk of the Personhood Series

Keywords

Corporate personhood, Indigenous legal bodies, structural anthropology, corporate law, Indigenous law, colonialism, legal personhood, legal fiction, UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group

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