Bruce Granville Miller

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals

How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

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Produktbeschreibung

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Abmessung: 153mm x 230mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780774867764
• ISBN-10: 0774867760
• Artikelnr.: 68463080

Autorenporträt

Bruce Granville Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Sharon Venne-Manyfingers
Introduction
Part 1: Anthropology and Law
1 My Life in Anthropology and Law
2 Symbolic Violence, Trauma, and Human Rights
3 Thinning the Evidence, Discrediting the Expert Witness
4 Entering Evidence in an Adversarial System
5 Anthropologists versus Lawyers
Part 2: The Tribunal
6 The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
7 McCue v. University of British Columbia
8 Menzies v. Vancouver Police Department
Conclusion
Caselaw and Legal Materials; References; Index