International

International Law

Patricia lectures internationally in the field of comparative law, with specific scholarship on Federal Indian Law in comparison to the laws of Brazil on the rights of indigenous peoples of Brazil (dos povos indigenous). Invited by anthropologists in Brazil, Patricia travels to conferences and universities around the world, to lecture as a Latin Americanist and as an Americanist. She presented on a panel in Aracaju, Brazil in 2008 for the Reuniao Equatorial de Antropologia e X Reuniao de Antropologos Norte-Nordeste in a Mesa Redonda: Autonomias Indigenas Contemporaneas: debates interculturais. She is invited in 2010 to lecture in a seminar class at the University of Washington School of Law.

Lummi Sovereignty Symposium, guest speaker/trainer on “International Indigenous Law as a Right to Tribal Self-Governance. April 4, 2007

A Walking Path to Understand the Roots of International Law and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

October 2006

Patricia Christine Aqamuk Paul, Esq.

http://patriciapauljd.com

This walking path provides as much original language as possible from the actual documents cited. This walking path is designed as a tool for developing strategies and understanding basic principles on indigenous peoples’ rights and international law.

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"INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES”

with Prof. Joel Ngugi, UW School of Law, and Attorney Patricia Paul

Attorney Patricia Paul and Professor Joel Ngugi are lawyers with expertise in international law

as it pertains to the rights of indigenous peoples. In this CLE they explored the ways indigenous peoples utilize international law to protect their rights to land, to subsistence lifestyles, to cultural maintenance, and to autonomy within the current nation-state political model.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - World Peace Through Law Section Brown Bag Mini-CLE: International Law and the Rights of Indigenous People. Noon - 1 p.m., Washington State Bar Association Offices,

2101 Fourth Ave., Ste. 400, Seattle

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