Duty to Consult in Aboriginal Law

Professor Larry Chartrand has been an active faculty member in the Common Law Section since 1994, assuming the role of Associate Professor in 2007. From 2006 to 2009, he also served as an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. He served as the Director of the Aboriginal Self-Government Program at the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2007. In 1998, he served as the Métis Advisor to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. From 1991 to 1994, he was the Director of the Indigenous Law Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta.

Prof. Chartrand holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta (1986), where he focused on elementary education and community development of Aboriginal communities. He earned his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1989), where he was the Division Leader for the Advocacy Division of the Community Legal Aid Services Program and a caseworker for the Criminal Division. He earned his LL.M. from Queen's University in 2001 with a thesis entitled, "The Political Dimensions of Aboriginal Rights."