070 | Brenda Gunn

Brenda L. Gunn, is a Professor at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of  Law. She has a B.A. from the University of Manitoba and a J.D. from the  University of Toronto.  She completed her LL.M. in Indigenous Peoples  Law & Policy at the University of Arizona. She articled with Sierra  Legal Defence Fund (now Ecojustice Canada). She was called to the bars  of Law Society of Upper Canada and Manitoba. Brenda also worked at a  community legal clinic in Rabinal, Guatemala on a case of genocide  submitted to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. She has also  worked with First Nations on Aboriginal and treaty rights issues in  Manitoba. As a proud Metis woman, she continues to combine her academic  research with her activism pushing for greater recognition of Indigenous  peoples’ inherent rights as determined by Indigenous peoples’ own legal  traditions. Her current research focuses on promoting greater  conformity between international law on the rights of Indigenous peoples  and domestic law. Let me know what you think, please tweet any thoughts or takeaways to @gomaluku.