Gordon Christie
Gordon Christie is of Inupiat/Inuvialuit ancestry and specializes in Aboriginal law. He is a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the director of the Indigenous Legal Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. Christie has a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a LLB from the University of Victoria. His teaching is primarily in the fields of Aboriginal law and legal theory, and his research work is entirely concerned with these two realms (and their intersection). His most recent work focuses on how colonial systems of cultural meaning frame Canadian jurisprudence around Aboriginal rights.
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