June McCue

Assistant Professor

B.A. (Hons.) Carleton 1993; LL.B. Ottawa 1994; LL.M. UBC 1998

Tel: 604.822.5559
E-mail: mccue@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: Allard Hall, room 462

Personal Web Page: http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/mccue

Profile

Professor June McCue is a member of the Ned'u'ten People located along Lake Babine in northern British Columbia. Professor McCue graduated from the UBC Graduate Law Program in 1998. Professor McCue has been the Acting Director of First Nations Legal Studies since 1998 and joins the Faculty as an Assistant Professor and Director of First Nations Legal Studies on July 1, 2000.

Professor McCue has directed the development of a First Nations Legal Studies Academic Plan and supervised the process to create the conceptual development for the Centre for International Indigenous Legal Studies.  From 1999-2005, Professor McCue was the founding Chair of Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship Through Law and Education (EAGLE). Professor McCue's current efforts are focussed on research, writing and teaching in the Indigenous law field.

Courses

• Indigenous Legal Issues - Perspectives
• First Nations Self-Government
• First Nations and Canadian Law
• Colonialism and the Law
• Indigenous Peoples and Comparative International Law
• Real Property
• Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot
• Aboriginal Content Module Development

Research Interests

• Treaty-making
• International Law
• Indigenous Legal Theory
• Critical Race Theory
• Peacemaking and the Indigenous Powers of Security
• Comparative Indigenous Law
• Principal Investigator for the Centre for International Indigenous Legal Studies Community Legal Needs Assessment
• Current research efforts are focussed on "Indigenous Powers of Security" and the Consultation Law

Representative Published Works

• “New Modalities of Sovereignty: an Indigenous Perspective” 2 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 19-29 (2007).
• " Afterward: Box of Treasures or Empty Box ?" in A. Walkem and H. Bruce, eds. Box of Treasures or Empty Box: s. 35 Twenty Years After (Penticton: Theytus Books, 2003) at 365.

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database