Douglas Harris Homepage: Publications

Publications

See the Faculty of Law Library Research Publications Database for a list of publications and links to electronic sources. Additional information on publications, including links to reviews, provided below.

Books

Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 (Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming May 2008).

published reviews of Landing Native Fisheries

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)

published reviews of Fish, Law, and Colonialism

Articles and Book Chapters

"The Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific" in Alexandra Harmon, ed., The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008) 128-153.

"Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-1882," in J. McLaren, editor, Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005).

"Aboriginal Rights to Fish in British Columbia" commissioned by The Scow Institute (2007).

"Indigenous Territoriality in Canadian Courts" in A. Walkem and H. Bruce, editors, Box of Treasures or Empty Box?: Twenty Years of Section 35 (Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 2003).

“Territoriality, Aboriginal Rights, and the Heiltsuk Spawn-on-Kelp Fishery,” University of British Columbia Law Review 34 (2000): 195-238.

“The Nlha7kapmx Meeting at Lytton, 1879, and the Rule of Law”, B.C. Studies 108 (1995-96): 5-25.

Co-Authored Articles

“Webbing the Pacific--Teaching an Intercontinental Legal History Course: Ozcan,” co-authored with Wes Pue, John McLaren, Ian Holloway and Simon Bonitt, Law and History Review 18 (2000): 445.

Book Reviews and Review Essays

M.P. Shepard and A.W. Argue, The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty: Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits, International Journal of Maritime History 18.1 (2006): 447 - 448.

"Historians and Courts, R. v. Marshall and Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: A Review Essay," Canadian Journal of Law & Society 18 (2003): 123-131.

Roy Vogt, Whose Property? The Deepening Conflict between Private Property and Democracy in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), Left History 8 (Spring 2002): 132-4.

Eve Darian-Smith and Peter Fitzpatrick, editors, Laws of the Postcolonial (An Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), Law, Social Justice and Global Development 1 (2000)

Sidney Harring, White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Legal History, 1998), Canadian Historical Review 81 (2000): 305-307.

Carol Wilton, ed., Inside the Law: Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective, (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1996), Dalhousie Law Journal 20 (1997): 295-307.

Rolf Knight, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930 (Vancouver: New Star Press, 1996), Native Studies Review 11 (1996): 147-151.