LAW594 Gladue Principles Seminar

This 3 credit course is designed to provide upper year law students with a deeper critical understanding of the legal, social, cultural and economic contexts for implementing Gladue principles. It will feature various guest speakers who are experts in the jurisprudence and application of Gladue factors in sentencing. This includes the relevance of individual social and historic factors, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report, and the relationship of Gladue principles to Indigenous laws, Indigenous healing and ceremonial processes and restorative justice practices. Students will attend weekly classes and have interactions with Gladue report writers including how they interview, gather and provide information for justices of the Court of Queen’s Bench and Provincial Court of Alberta in Edmonton. Students will also have the opportunity for visits to the Edmonton Indigenous Court.