Kerry Sloan
Assistant Professor
Kerry Sloan is an Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. She is a citizen and long-time board (governing council) member of the Metis Nation of Greater Victoria and is affiliated with Metis communities in the southern BC interior. Kerry was a SSHRC postdoctoral candidate at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, and completed her PhD at the University of Victoria in the Law and Society program. Kerry studies Metis law and legal issues, as well as the historical development of Indigenous law-state law interactions. Formerly, she practiced Aboriginal law and general litigation in BC and Alberta.
- PhD (Law and Society), University of Victoria
- LLB, University of Calgary
- MA (English Language Studies – Rhetoric/Critical Theory), University of British Columbia
- BA (English Literature), University of British Columbia
Professor Sloan’s primary research interest lies in the area of Metis laws and legal issues. She continues to participate in community-based collaborative research to develop what she calls “MetCrit” – critical approaches to law tailored specifically to the concerns of Metis people – and to learn about the history and functioning of Metis law.
More broadly, Professor Sloan is interested in the historical development of Indigenous law-state law interactions, and how these lead to intersecting legal identities and intersocietal law. She’s also interested in the implications of Metis law revitalization for Metis governance. Other research interests include Indigenous legal education, legal writing pedagogies, law and literary theory, and law and the arts.
Professor Sloan is currently researching Metis property interests in “long lots” (rangs); modern Metis legal institutions; Metis spirituality in law and diplomacy; and expressions of law through Metis music/dance traditions.
She is also working with the McGill library, the McGill Law Journal, and interested colleagues to expand inclusion of Indigenous legal citation materials in McGill’s Uniform Guide to Legal Citation.
