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Indigenous Rights and Intrastate Multijuridicalism

This chapter examines the rising assertion that Indigenous rights imply a necessary multijuridicalism within states that contain Indigenous peoples. Those who put this assertion call for the recognition of Indigenous legal systems alongside dominant state legal systems. One basis for these claims is found in Article 5 of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which states that “Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions…” Considered against backgrounds of colonial encounters between European imperial powers and Indigenous peoples, there are no doubt strong normative arguments for moves toward reopening space for Indigenous legal traditions. At the same time, however, such moves raise complex questions of jurisprudential theory that warrant close analysis. This chapter engages in some of that analysis in the context of various theories of legal pluralism.