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Kirsten Anker

Professeure agrégée

3690, rue Peel
Salle 304
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-8147 [Bureau]
kirsten.anker [at] mcgill.ca (Courriel)

Kirsten Anker

Biographie

Kirsten Anker enseigne dans les domaines du droit des biens, de la théorie du droit et du droit autochtone. Elle entreprend des recherches reliant son expertise en matière de droit des biens et de droit autochtone à ses intérêts pour la preuve, les modes alternatifs de règlement des différends, la gestion des ressources naturelles et la pédagogie. Sa monographie, intitulée Declarations of Interdependence : A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous Rights, présente plusieurs aspects de la revendication du titre ancestral en Australie et au Canada comme des points de départ pour ré-imaginer le droit. Elle publie principalement sur le défi que pose la reconnaissance de l’intersection entre le droit autochtone et le droit étatique aux conceptions traditionnelles du droit et de la souveraineté, s’inspirant de divers domaines tels que la théorie du droit, l’anthropologie, la philosophie occidentale et autochtone, et les études en langues et en traduction. Ses projets en cours incluent des recherches sur l’intégration des traditions juridiques autochtones dans la formation juridique, la cartographie digitale des revendications territoriales, la privatisation de la consultation des communautés autochtones, et la jurisprudence écologique.

Parcours professionnel

  • Professeure agrégée, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2016-
  • Professeure adjointe, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2007-2016
  • Chargée de cours invitée, Faculté de droit, London School of Economics, 2006
  • Boursier Boulton, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2004
  • Chargée de cours adjointe, Faculté de droit, Université de Sydney, 2000-2003
  • Instructrice, AUSAID Indonesia/Australia Specialist Training Project in Intellectual Property, University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Law, 2000-2001

Prix

  • Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law, American Society of Comparative Law

Études

  • PhD University of Sydney
  • LLB University of Sydney
  • BSc University of Sydney, Physics

Champs d'intérêt

Droit des biens, droit des peuples autochtones, traditions juridiques autochtones, théorie du droit, anthropologie juridique et sociale, droit et sciences sociales, droit et langue

Publications choisies

Livres et monographies

Articles et chapitres de livres avec comité de lecture

  • ‘Aboriginal Title and Alternative Cartographies’ (2018) 11(1) Erasmus Law Journal 14-30. See on SSRN.
  • ‘Law As… Forest: Eco-logics, Stories and Spirits in Indigenous Jurisprudence’ (2017) 21 Law Text Culture 191-213. See on SSRN.
  • ‘Reconciliation in Translation: Indigenous Legal Traditions and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ (2016) 33(1) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 15-43. See on SSRN.
  • ‘Translating Sui Generis Aboriginal Rights and the Civilian Imagination’ in Les intraduisibles en droit civil (Montreal: Thémis, 2014). See on SSRN.
  • ‘Teaching “Indigenous Peoples and the Law”: Whose Law?’ (2008) 33:3 Alternative Law Journal 132. See on SSRN.
  • ‘The Truth in Painting: Cultural Artefacts as Proof of Native Title’ (2005) 9 Law Text Culture 91. Reprinted in Eve Darian-Smith, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). See on SSRN.

Chapitres

  • with Mark Antaki, ‘Imagination’ in Karen Crawley, Thomas Giddens and Timothy Peters (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies (London: Routledge forthcoming)
  • with Mark Antaki, ‘The Superfactual Anthropocene and Encounters with Indigenous Legal Traditions’ in Peter Burdon and James Martel (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene (London: Routledge, 2023)
  • ‘Plural Property’ in Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies and Lee Godden (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (London: Routledge, 2023)
  • ‘To Be is To Be Entangled: Indigenous Treaty-Making, Relational Legalities and the Ecological Grounds of Law’ in Nico Krisch (ed), Entangled Legalities Beyond the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • “Indigenous Law: What non-Indigenous People Can Learn From Indigenous Legal Thought” in Mariana Valverde, Kamari M. Clarke, Eve Darian Smith, and Prabha Kotiswaran (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society (London: Routledge, 2021)
  • “Ecological Law and Indigenous Relational Ontologies: Beyond the ‘Ecological Indian’?” in Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert (eds), From Environmental to Ecological Law (London: Routledge, 2021). See on SSRN.
  • “‘Colonialism and Access to a Disenchanted Earth’ in Yaëll Emerich et Laurence Saint-Pierre Harvey (eds), Accès à la terre et enjeux sociaux : précarité, territorialité et identité (Montreal: Thémis, 2019). See on SSRN.
  • ‘Postcolonial Jurisprudence and the Pluralist Turn: From Making Space to Being in Place’ in Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin (eds), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (pp.261-293)
  • ‘Law, Culture and Fact in Indigenous Claims: Legal Pluralism as a Problem of Recognition’ in René Provost (ed), Centaur Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
  • ‘Contextualizing Governance’ in Daniel Jutras, Rosalie Jukier and Richard Janda, The Unbounded Level of the Mind: Rod Macdonald’s Legal Imagination (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2015)
  • "Symptoms of Sovereignty? Apologies, Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation in Australia and Canada" in Peer Zumbansen and Ruth Buchanen (eds), Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014).

Compte-rendus

  • ‘Book Review: Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia and New Zealand’ (2012) 85 Pacific Affairs 446
  • ‘We, the Nomads: A Review of Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law’ (2011) 7 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy 233

Autre

  • ‘Between a Rock and a Sacred Place: The Limits of Aboriginal Title and Freedom of Religion in Ktunaxa v. BC’ IACL-AIDC Blog (International Association of Constitutional Law) 17 August 2018 https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/
  • Special Issue Guest Editor – Signs in and of Place: Indigenous Issues in the Semiotics of Law, (2015) 28(4) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
  • with Ben Hightower, ‘Introduction: (Re)Imagining Law: Marginalised Bodies/Indigenous Spaces’ (2015) 28(4) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 1-8
  • Indigenous Legal Traditions and Indian Residential Schools: Law, Sovereignty and Reconciliation in Translation (May 2013) Working Paper prepared for the Canadian Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • 'Land’ (June 2012) McGill Companion to Law

 

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