caa a22 4500 388073853 CHVBK 20180307125156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0829320100006062 doi S0829320100006062 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0829320100006062 Gallagher-Mackay Kelly Legal Counsel Government of Nunavut Affirmative Action and Aboriginal Government: The Case for Legal Education in Nunavut [Elektronische Daten] [Kelly Gallagher-Mackay] The Nunavut Land Claim Agreement commits federal and territorial governments to the recruitment and training of Inuit for positions throughout government. In the justice sector, there is currently a major shortage of Inuit lawyers or future judges. However, there also appears to be a fundamental mismatch between what existing law schools offer and what Inuit students are prepared to accept. A northern-based law school might remedy some of these problems. However, support for a law school requires un-thinking certain key tenets of legal education as we know it in Canada. In particular, it may require a step outside the university-based law school system. Universities appear to be accepted as the exclusive guardian of the concept of academic standards. Admission standards, in particular, serve as both a positivist technology of exclusion, and a political rationale for the persistence of majoritarian institutions as the major means of training members of disadvantaged communities. Distinctive institutions - eventually working with university-based law schools - have the potential to help bridge the education gap between Inuit and other Canadians. In so doing, they have the potential to train a critical mass of Inuit to meaningfully adapt the justice system to become a pillar of the public government in the Inuit homeland of Nunavut. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1999 Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 21-75 0829-3201 14:2<21 1999 14 CLS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gallagher-Mackay Kelly Legal Counsel Government of Nunavut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 21-75 0829-3201 14:2<21 1999 14 CLS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge