Readership: Scholars, students, practitioners, historians, and policy-makers involved or interested in aboriginal rights and the development of aboriginal title to land
P.G. McHugh, Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
P.G. McHugh is a New Zealander whose pioneering work has been at the forefront of this field. After graduating LLB (Hons, first class) from Victoria University of Wellington he completed an LLM at the University of Saskatchewan (1981) and a PhD at the University of Cambridge (winner of Yorke Prize 1988) for his dissertation <"The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law.>" His work has been cited in court judgments and has been influential in policy-setting and resolution of land claims in several jurisdictions where he has acted as occasional independent advisor to governments and tribal bodies. He is known not only as a legal scholar but a legal historian, especially in the field of historiography and the disciplinary interplay of law and history.
"McHugh's new book is beyond doubt a rich and fascinating contribution to the field. Its full implications will take some time to absorb." - Richard Boast, Maori Law Review
"McHugh...does a fine job of examining the answers that the law has come up with in less than 350 pages." - Eleanor Healy Birt, Journal of the Liberal International British Group
1: Profile of a modern jurisprudence: an idea whose time had come 2: Common Law Aboriginal Title and its pipers at the gate of dawn - gestation (1970s) and breakthrough (1980s) 3: Doctrinal pathways in Canada and Australia - the devil in the detail of a maturing jurisprudence 4: Aboriginal title in the new century and new contexts: fraternal impact, international influence 5: Aboriginal title within and across disciplinary boundaries - anthropologists, historians and political philosophers 6: Aboriginal title - diagnosis and prognosis
