Culture and Competitive Resource Regulation: A Liberal Economic Alternative to Sui Generis Aboriginal Rights

Abstract

The recognition of Aboriginal rights as sui generis is unique in its basis on a combination of past, culture, and place. This article maintains that the sui generis basis for Aboriginal rights has limited tangible improvements to Aboriginal quality of life, while commentators have also pointed to a number of difficulties with the justifications offered for sui generis rights. The present article proposes a theory of regulatory diversity that promises greater Aboriginal self-determination over regional resources and is both more conducive to development and justifiable on liberal grounds.

Preferential Rights of Local Inhabitants of the North: International Legal Grounds and legislative Experience of Arctic States

“…Предпосылками возникновения аборигенных прав признаны первичное пребывание коренных народов на территории (до контакта с европейцами) и их культурное своеобразие. В доктрине было поддержано Особое мнение судьи Ма-кЛахлина в деле «Van der Peet» о том, что источником прав коренных народов является «не чудо встречи с европейцами, а традиционные законы и обычаи указанных коренных народов» 44 .…”