Val Napoleon

Val Napoleon is Cree from Saulteau First Nation, and she is adopted into Gitanyow [northern Gitxsan]. She is the co-founder of Juris Doctor and Juris Indigenarum Doctor (dual law degree program in Indigenous and Canadian law), and the founding director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit. She is the academic lead for the major national Next Steps Rebuilding Indigenous legal orders initiative. Napoleon researches and publishes on Indigenous legal traditions and methodologies, legal theories, intersocietal legalities, feminisms, legal pluralism, democracies and civil societies, and intellectual property. She is a professor and former acting dean of law, and she teaches Canadian and Gitxsan property.