7 PM

Kinsella Auditorium

Naiomi Metallic will deliver this year’s Chancellor’s Lecture on Thursday, October 26 at 7 PM in the Kinsella Auditorium.

In her lecture, Apajiksuàtuek Êntdêpludaqann – Taking Back our Law, Professor Metallic will speak about the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ legal orders in Canada. This will include how legal and political developments support the movement’s momentum, introduce the ways communities are working to bring back their legal orders, including through their stories, languages, and what universities and other settler institutions can do to support this crucial work.

The Chancellor's Lecture Series on Indigenous Issues is funded through an endowment established by Chancellor Graydon Nicholas and his wife Beth.

About Naiomi Metallic

Professor Metallic is from the Listuguj Mìgmaq First Nation, located within the Gespègewàgi district of Mìgmàgi (on the Gaspe Coast of Quebec).  She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie, a civil law degree from Ottawa U, a masters of law from Osgoode, and is currently pursuing her PhD through the University of Alberta.  She is a member of faculty at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and holds the Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy.  She was also a law clerk to the Hon. Michel Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada.  She continues to practice law with Burchells Wickwire Byrson LLP in Halifax where she practised for nearly a decade before joining the law school, primarily in the firm’s Aboriginal law group.

She has been named to the Best Lawyer in Canada® list in Aboriginal law since 2015 and was chosen for Canadian Lawyers’ Magazine 2018 Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in the area of Human Rights, Advocacy and Criminal law.  She is the daughter of Mìgmaq linguist, the late Emmanuel Nàgùgwes Metallic, and has been actively learning her language since 2018. Recently, she has combined her growing knowledge in the areas of Indigenous law revitalization and the Mìgmaq language to write on the various ways language can be harnessed to draw out Indigenous laws.