IPCL Notes (HD grade, top performing student)

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I obtained 92% in the written assignment and in the final exam, making me the top performing student for the topic in 2020. These notes are comprehensive and laid out according to weekly topics covered and taught in this subject. They include: — Week 2: race as social construct; ‘whiteness’ — Week 3: The history of colonisation; legal and philosophical justifications — Week 4: Indigenous perspectives on law — Weeks 5 and 6: Historical relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state (different eras; constitutional recognition, Uluru Statement, treaties) — Week 7: Land rights and native title — Week 8: Dealing with historical injustice: stolen generations and stolen wages (including the apology) — Week 9: Indigenous peoples and the criminal justice system — Week 10: Protection of Indigenous heritage, knowledge, culture — Week 11: International law and Indigenous peoples