Indigenous Law in Context: Intensive

Note: This course does not meet the graduation requirement for students to complete an intensive course. 

Schedule: September 11 - September 14, 2025

Since 2016, U of T Law has offered the Indigenous Law in Context program, a three-day intensive. The program introduces participants to Indigenous law from a land-based perspective, and they receive teachings from elders and other members of the community on Anishinaabe law and legal traditions. This year the program is taking place on the Giiwedin Ki—Rama First Nation, on Lake Couchiching, outside of Orillia Ontario. Professor John Borrows (Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law) will lead the course, and there will be joint activities with law students from Osgoode Hall, Queen’s, University of Victoria, and Toronto Metropolitan University. The class requires a willingness to learn in an immersive setting, where weather is variable and accommodations are appropriate to camp-like conditions. Students will travel to the site together on Thursday, September 11, and camp as a group on the First Nation's lands, returning Sunday, September 14.