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Table of Contents (PDF)Emerging Justice? Essays on Indigenous Rights in Canada and Australia. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 2001. Winner of Saskatchewan Book Awards for Publishing and Publishing in EducationTable of Contents (PDF)Common Law Aboriginal Title. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989

Books

“The Relationship between the Sources and Content of Indigenous Land Rights in Australia and Canada”, in Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra, eds., Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Essays on Canada, Australia and New Zealand, forthcoming UBC Press.“Judicial Perspectives on Indigenous Land Rights in the Common Law World”, in Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai and Kent McNeil, eds., Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009), 257-83“Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples”, in Mark Gillen and Faye Woodman, eds., The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach, 2^nd ed. (Toronrto: Emond Montgomery, 2008), 907-76.“Negotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest”, in Alexandra Harmon, ed., The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008), 35-55.“Native Rights Case Law”, in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 2, Indians in Contemporary Society, edited by Garrick Bailey (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 166-76“The Métis and the Doctrine of Interjurisdictional Immunity: A Commentary”, in Frederica Wilson and Melanie Mallet, eds., Métis-Crown Relations: Rights, Identity, Jurisdiction, and Governance (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008), 289-322“Legal Rights and Legislative Wrongs: Maori Claims to the Foreshore and Seabed”, in Claire Charters and Andrew Erueti, eds., Maori Property Rights and the Foreshore and Seabed: The Latest Frontier, (Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2007), 82-118“Judicial Approaches to Self-Government since Calder: Searching for Doctrinal Coherence”, in Hamar Foster, Heather Raven and Jeremy Weber, eds., Let Right Be Done: Calder, Aboriginal Title and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), 129-52Full Text (PDF)“Continuity of Aboriginal Rights”, in Kerry Wilkins, ed., Advancing Aboriginal Claims: Visions/Strategies/Directions (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2004), 127-50Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Title on the Ground: Establishing and Protecting Occupation”, in Bruce W. Hodgins, Ute Lischke, and David T. McNab, eds., Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003), 147-56Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Title as a Constitutionally Protected Property Right”, in Owen Lippert, ed., Beyond the Nass Valley: National Implications of the Supreme Court's Delgamuukw Decision (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2000), 55-75Full Text (PDF)“Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples”, in Mark R. Gillen and Faye Woodman, eds., The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2000), 807-65Full Text (PDF)“The Meaning of Aboriginal Title”, in Michael Asch, ed., Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality and Respect for Difference (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997), 135-54Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Nations and Quebec's Boundaries: Canada Couldn't Give What It Didn't Have”, in Daniel Drache and Roberto Perin, eds., Negotiating with a Sovereign Quebec (Toronto: Lorimer, 1992), 107-23“The Temagami Indian Land Claim: Loosening the Judicial Strait-Jacket”, in Matt Bray and Ashley Thomson, eds., Temagami: A Debate on Wilderness (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990), 185-221

Book Chapters

“Has Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal Rights Adversely Affected Their Definition?”, with David Yarrow, (2007) 37 Supreme Court Law Review (2nd) 177-211“Aboriginal Title and the Supreme Court: What’s Happening?” (2006) 69 Saskatchewan Law Review 281-308Full Text (HTML)“Aboriginal Rights, Resource Development, and the Source of the Provincial Duty to Consult in Haida Nation and Taku River” (2005) 29 Supreme Court Law Review (2^nd series) 447-60.Full Text (HTML)“The Vulnerability of Indigenous Land Rights in Australia and Canada” (2004) 42 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 271-301Full Text (HTML)“Challenging Legislative Infringements of the Inherent Aboriginal Right of Self-Government” (2003) 22 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 329-61Full Text (HTML)“Culturally Modified Trees, Indian Reserves and the Crown's Fiduciary Obligations” (2003) 21 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 105-38Full Text (PDF)“Reconciliation and the Supreme Court: The Opposing Views of Chief Justices Lamer and McLachlin” (2003) 2 Indigenous Law Journal 1-26Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Governments and the Charter: Lessons from the United States” (2002) 17 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 73-105Full Text (PDF)“Self-Government and the Inalienability of Aboriginal Title” (2002) 47 McGill Law Journal 473-510Full Text (PDF)“Extinguishment of Aboriginal Title in Canada: Treaties, Legislation, and Judicial Discretion” (2001-2002) 33 Ottawa Law Review 301-46Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Rights in Transition: Reassessing Aboriginal Title and Governance” (2001) 31 American Review of Canadian Studies 317-29Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Title and Section 88 of the Indian Act” (2000) 34 University of British Columbia Law Review 159-94Full Text (PDF)“Sovereignty on the Northern Plains: Indian, European, American and Canadian Claims” (2000) 39:3 Journal of the West 10-18Full Text (PDF)“Legalizing Oral History: Proving Aboriginal Title in Canadian Courts”, with Lori Ann Roness, (2000) 39:3 Journal of the West 66-74“Treaty Rights, the Indian Act, and the Canadian Constitution: The Supreme Court's 1999 Decisions” (2000) 8:1-3 Canada Watch 44-52Full Text (PDF)“History, Law, and Indian Claims: An Introduction”, with Jill Martin, (2000) 39:3 Journal of the West 8-9Full Text (HTML)“The Onus of Proof of Aboriginal Title” (1999) 37 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 775-803Full Text (PDF)“Sovereignty and the Aboriginal Nations of Rupert's Land” (1999) 37 (spring/summer) Manitoba History 2-8Full Text (PDF)“Social Darwinism and Judicial Conceptions of Indian Title in Canada in the 1880s” (1999) 38:1 Journal of the West 68-76Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Rights in Canada: From Title to Land to Territorial Sovereignty” (1998) 5 Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law 253-98Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Title and the Division of Powers: Rethinking Federal and Provincial Jurisdiction” (1998) 61 Saskatchewan Law Review 431-65Full Text (PDF)“Aboriginal Title and Aboriginal Rights: What's the Connection?” (1997) 36 Alberta Law Review 117-48Full Text (PDF)“Extinguishment of Native Title: The High Court and American Law” (1997) 2 Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 365-70Full Text (PDF)“How Can Infringements of the Constitutional Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Be Justified?” (1997) 8:2 Constitutional Forum 33-39“Co-Existence of Indigenous Rights and Other Interests in Land in Australia and Canada” [1997] 3 Canadian Native Law Reporter 1-18, a shorter version of which appeared as “Co-Existence of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Land Rights: Australia and Canada Compared in Light of the Wik Decision” (1997) 4:5 Indigenous Law Bulletin 4-9Full Text (HTML)“Aboriginal Governments and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” (1996) 34 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 61-99Full Text (PDF)“Racial Discrimination and Unilateral Extinguishment of Native Title” (1996) 1 Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 181-221Full Text (PDF)“The Decolonization of Canada: Moving Toward Recognition of Aboriginal Governments” (1994) 7 Western Legal History113-41Full Text (PDF)“Envisaging Constitutional Space for Aboriginal Governments” (1993) 19 Queen's Law Journal 95-136Full Text (PDF)“The High Cost of Accepting Benefits from the Crown: A Comment on the Temagami Indian Land Case” [1992] 1 Canadian Native Law Reporter 40-69Full Text (PDF)“A Question of Title: Has the Common Law Been Misapplied to Dispossess the Aboriginals?” (1990) 16 Monash University Law Review 91-110Full Text (PDF)“The Constitution Act, 1982, Sections 25 and 35” [1988] 1 Canadian Native Law Reporter 1-13Full Text (HTML)“The Constitutional Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada” (1982) 4 Supreme Court Law Review 255-65

Journal Articles

“The Jurisdiction of Inherent Right Aboriginal Governments”, West Vancouver: National Centre for First Nations Governance, 2007, online: http://fngovernance.org/pdf/Jurisdiction_of_Inherent_Rights.pdf.“The Inherent Right of Self-Government: Emerging Directions for Legal Research”, a research report prepared for the National Centre for First Nations Governance, West Vancouver, B.C., 2004, online: http://fngovernance.org/pdf/KentMcNeilInherent0105.pdf.“Exclusive Occupation and Joint Aboriginal Title”, a research report prepared for the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, Ladysmith, B.C., July, 2003, 24 pp.“The Inherent Rights of First Nations to Self-Determination and Self-Government”, a research report prepared for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, June, 2003, 28 pp.“Section 35 Protection of the Manitoba First Nation Self-Government Agreement”, a research report prepared for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, April, 2003, 29 pp.Publisher's Site (HTML)“Aboriginal Rights: The Legal Landscape in Canada”, in British Columbia Treaty Commission, ed., Speaking Truth to Power III (Vancouver: July 2002), on-line: www.bctreaty.net/files/truthtopower.html (PDF format), 34-39“Treaty Settlement Land Title and Jurisdiction: Legal and Constitutional Issues”, a research report prepared for the British Columbia First Nations Summit Constitutional Issues Secretariat, November, 2002, 21 pp.“The Implications of Parliament's Exercise of Section 91(24) Powers for the Inherent Right of Self-Government”, a research report prepared for the Assembly of First Nations, Office of the B.C. Regional Vice-Chief, August, 2002, 38 pp.Expert Report on the Acquisition of Territorial Sovereignty in International Law and British Imperial Law, Ochapowace First Nation Tax Case, Melville, Sask., June 4, 2002, 28 pp.“The Lands and Trust Services Initiative: Its Potential Impact on the Federal Government's Fiduciary Obligations”, Part I (August, 1998: 64 pp.), Part II (December, 1999: 67 pp.), Appendix (June, 2000: 34 pages), a research report prepared for the Assembly of First Nations, OttawaFull Text (PDF)Defining Aboriginal Title in the 90's: Has the Supreme Court Finally Got It Right? Toronto: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, 1998Full Text (PDF)Canada's Fiduciary Obligation to Aboriginal Peoples in the Context of Accession to Sovereignty by Quebec, Vol. 2, Domestic Dimensions, with Renée Dupuis. Ottawa: Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1995“Aboriginal, Treaty and Riparian Rights in the Moose River Basin: The Potential Impact of the Ontario Hydraulic Plan”, with Patrick Macklem, a research report prepared for the Moose River/James Bay Coalition, October, 1992, 143 pp.Full Text (PDF)Indian Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Rights in the Prairie Provinces of Canada. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1983Full Text (PDF)Native Rights and the Boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1982Full Text (PDF)Native Claims in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory: Canada's Constitutional Obligations. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1982

Monographs & Reports

Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, edited with Benjamin J. Richardson and Shin Imai. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009

Books Edited

University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre Legal Information Service Reports: “Indian Child Welfare - Whose Responsibility?”, 1981 “Constitutional Entrenchment of Native Rights”, 1980 “Trespass on Indian Reserves”, 1980 “Native People and the Canadian Constitution”, 1980

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