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JD Crookshanks

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Research Project

I work with Val Napoleon’s research group in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. My current project is an attempt to develop a theoretical approach for highlighting cleavages within the legal systems of Indigenous political collectivities. This means adopting an anti-essentialist approach, not just across Indigenous groups, but within them as well, accepting that different people experience law differently. My first step in this project is to focus on the (Indigenous) law-related experiences of Indigenous women in the hopes that I can apply my results to other cleavages later. Two methods of carrying out this goal are: seeing Indigenous women’s activities as law, and looking for women in descriptions of Indigenous legal systems. This second component raises a normative question about the importance for cleavages to be able to critique law, based on disproportionately negative legal effects, and to build capacities for resolving conflict within legal systems.

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