SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Narratology, Alcoholism, Customary Law In Australia
1 Oct 2016
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Residential school settlement: how can you study this issue with different socio-legal approaches, legal consciousness ask questions, legal history we"re trying to look at change over time on the case. You can also go look at the hanson debates. Australia: looks at how the story is told. Thursday, september 29, 2016: there were and are aboriginal laws. There were and continue to be aboriginal governments with lawmaking powers and with provisions to enforce those laws. There were and are aboriginal constitutions that are the supreme laws of laws for some aboriginal peoples and their nations. Heather douglas conclusion: while the recognition of customary law in sentencing has sometimes given aboriginal people more control or involvement in the sentencing process, they have also become bound up in the white legal process. The result has been a kind of weak legal pluralism in operation; an informal recognition of customary law as an alternative legal authority under scrutiny by the white legal authority.
