This first lesson of the course will introduce you to the course structure and syllabus and help you to get started working with our problem-based learning model.

This lesson addresses the problem of recognition from both Anglo-Canadian and Mi'kmaq legal perspectives.

Building on the previous lesson's exploration of possession and title, this week we focus on the various meanings of "title" and their application in the context of Indigenous land rights recognized by Anglo-Canadian law.

As one of several possible means by which owners exercise their right to exclude others from their land, this week we examine the role of claims in nuisance and the challenging question of appropriate remedies.

Private owners might also wish to exclude the state from "interference" with the property rights. This week we start to explore to what extent such rights of exclusion can be applied to public authorities.

Having now studied some of the historical basis for problems of recognition and exclusion, this week we move on to examine the context of exit, i.e. how owners transfer their rights in land and thereby disentangle themselves (wholly or partially) from property relations.

In our final week of new material in the course for this term we will turn our minds to the concept of the "trust" and examine its features by looking at the history of the dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians.

Constructive takings and an introduction to the modern style.

Right to shelter.

Covenants and Qualifications

Return to issues of possession.

Study of reserve lands, governing statutory regimes and land reform options.

Contemporary doctrine of Aboriginal title.