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Indigenous Peoples in International Law, Professor Benedict Kingsbury
Issues concerning indigenous peoples (including descendants of pre-colonial inhabitants in the Americas and Australasia , and groups in Asia and elsewhere) are increasingly significant in many countries and in the UN, the World Bank, the OAS, and other international institutions. The seminar will discuss challenges to standard liberal concepts and to democratic theory posed by such issues as: the meaning and problems of the concept of indigenous rights; the nature and meaning of the right to self-determination (including native peoples' self-determination if Quebec secedes from Canada, and important developments in indigenous peoples' rights in Latin American states); tensions between individual rights and group rights e.g. in discriminatory membership rules; minority rights regimes in international law; removal of children from indigenous communities; the activities of multinational corporations; tensions between indigenous peoples' rights and environmental law; and indigenous peoples' rights under international trade and intellectual property regimes.