Assistant Professor
New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Room 520
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9
514-398-3192 [Office]
kerry.sloan [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Research interests
Professor Sloan鈥檚 primary research interest lies in the area of Metis laws and legal issues. She continues to participate in community-based collaborative research to develop what she calls 鈥淢etCrit鈥� 鈥� critical approaches to law tailored specifically to the concerns of Metis people 鈥� and to learn about the history and functioning of Metis law.
More broadly, Professor Sloan is interested in the historical development of Indigenous law-state law interactions, and how these lead to intersecting legal identities and intersocietal law. She鈥檚 also interested in the implications of Metis law revitalization for Metis governance. Other research interests include Indigenous legal education, legal writing pedaogies, law and literary theory, and law and the arts.
Current projects
Professor Sloan is currently researching Metis property interests in 鈥渓ong lots鈥� (rangs); modern Metis legal institutions; Metis spirituality in law and diplomacy; and expressions of law through Metis music/dance traditions.
She is also working with the 平特五不中 library, the 平特五不中 Law Journal, and interested colleagues to expand inclusion of Indigenous legal citation materials in 平特五不中鈥檚 Uniform Guide to Legal Citation.
Biography
Professor Sloan is a citizen and a long-time board (governing council) member of the Metis Nation of Greater Victoria. She is also affiliated with Metis communities in the southern British Columbia interior, particularly in Secwepemc and Syilx territories.
Before embarking on her academic career, she practised Aboriginal law and general litigation in Alberta and British Columbia.
Education
- PhD (Law and Society), University of Victoria
- LLB, University of Calgary
- MA (English Language Studies 鈥� Rhetoric/Critical Theory), University of British Columbia
- BA (English Literature), University of British Columbia
Employment
- Assistant Professor, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2019-
- Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, 2019
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, 2017-2019
- Researcher and writer, RELAW Project, West Coast Environmental Law, 2017-2019
- Boulton Postdoctoral Fellow, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2017-2018
- Visiting Researcher, University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, 2016-2017
- Researcher and writer, Camosun College, Ey膿蕯 Sq葍鈥檒ewen 鈥� The Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections, 2016
- Limited term part-time Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, 2014
- Barrister & solicitor, 1999-2017 (currently a non-practising member of the Law Society of BC)
Publications
- 鈥淩eference re R v Powley鈥� in Naoimi Metallic, Kent McNeil & Larry Chartrand, eds, Judicial Tales Retold: Reimagining Indigenous Rights [forthcoming from the Indigenous Law Centre, Saskatoon, in 2020]; 鈥渏udgment鈥� in the Indigenous Nations Court project, to be published as a special edition of the Canadian Native Law Reporter
- 鈥淲eaving Strands of Metis Law鈥� in Cathy Richardson & Jeannine Carri猫re, eds, Speaking the Wisdom of Our Time (Vernon, BC: J Charlton, 2020)
- 鈥淎boriginal Rights Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice among the Metis of BC: Community Perspectives on Creating Legal Change鈥� (2017) 6:2 aboriginal policy studies 48; essay in a collection on Metis reconciliation as part of the Metis Treaties Project, .
- 鈥淎lways Coming Home: A Story of Metis Legal Understandings of Community and Territory鈥� (2017) 33:1 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 125, .
- 鈥溾�楢 New German-Indian World鈥� in the Northwest: A Metis Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Immigration in Riel鈥檚 Speeches to the Court鈥� in Hans V. Hansen, ed., Riel鈥檚 Defence: Perspectives on His Speeches (Montreal, Kingston: 平特五不中-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2014)
- 鈥淎 Global Survey of Indigenous Legal Education and Research鈥� (2013), Indigenous Bar Association, Accessing Justice and Reconciliation Project, .
- 鈥溾�楲ost Okanagan鈥� No More: How I Discovered My BC Metis History鈥� (2013) 77 Okanagan History 8
- Contributing writer: Department of English, University of Victoria, Academic Writing Essentials, 2nd ed. (Boston, MA: Pearson, 2010)
