Menard on The Legal Within Folktales: Embedded Law in Indigenous and French Canadian Oral Stories @xavierfm3 @NLawGlobal

Xavier Foccroulle Menard, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, is publishing The Legal within Folktales: Embedded Law in Indigenous and French Canadian Oral Stories in volume 7 of ANAMORPHOSIS: International Journal of Law and Literature (2021). Here is the abstract.

This essay pertains to the discovery of legal concepts and principles within Indigenous and French Canadian oral folk stories to develop greater dialogue across legal traditions. This is done in two parts. The first part focuses on the literary study of Indigenous and French Canadian folklore. It is argued that oral folk stories are legitimate and relevant object of law in literature study as they constitute dense and potent source of legal principles, concepts and notions. The second part directly engages an archetype of Indigenous and French Canadian folktales. It looks to find legal principles, concepts and notions through the supernatural characters of windigo and werewolf[.]

Download the article from SSRN at the link.