Construction underway in B.C. for Canada’s first National Centre for Indigenous Laws
The site of the future National Centre for Indigenous Laws at the University of Victoria has already begun to take shape.
“This new space will help breath life into the learning and work that takes place there, where teachers and students support Indigenous communities seeking to articulate and apply their laws to contemporary challenges,” said board chair Mary Childs. “UVic is leading the way in transforming what legal education means and the new centre will be at the heart of that transformation.”
Designed to reflect and honour the long-standing relationships between the law school and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC peoples, the building will house the joint degree program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous legal orders, as well as the Indigenous Law Research Unit. It will also house the Environmental Law Centre, the Business Law Clinic, the Access to Justice Centre and an elders’ room and garden.
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