Domestic Law

• Expertise on the history & evolution of the Canada-Aboriginal relationship including on the watershed 1982 Constitutional affirmation & recognition of the rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada, including the Metis, Indian and Inuit peoples. Paul was a participant and advisor.

• The open-ended meaning of the rights and the peoples that have the rights that are guaranteed in the 1982 Constitution Act, including the ‘Metis’ people and the ‘Non-status Indian’ people. Several publications including Chartrand, Paul L.A. H. ed. Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples? Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction (Saskatoon, Purich Publishing Ltd. 2002)

• The history & the law about the historic, constitutional and legal recognition of the Metis people. See e.g. Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, ‘The Metis cases: Rethinking the Doctrine of Aboriginal Rights’ 2021 (57:1) Osgoode Hall L.J. 173-194; Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, The Constitutional Status and Rights of the Metis People in Canada. Vol 6, No 2, (2017) Aboriginal Policy Studies, https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/aps/index.php/aps

• Customary law & the modern law of aboriginal rights in the Constitution of Canada. See e.g. Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, “Defining the ‘Metis’ of Canada: A principled approach to Crown-Aboriginal Relations’, chapter 2 in Frederica Wilson and Melanie Mallet, ed. Metis-Crown Relations: Rights, Identify, Jurisdiction, and Governance (Toronto, Irwin Law Ltd. 2008)