Ghislain Otis

 

Professor Ghislain Otis is a specialist of indigenous law, legal pluralism, constitutional law and human rights. In 2008, he joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa as the Canada Research Chair on Legal Diversity and Indigenous Peoples and has since then worked on issues related to indigenous governance and legal pluralism in Canada, the United States, Mayotte and the Pacific insular states among others. He is currently the director of an international team for the project “The State and Indigenous Legal Cultures: Law in Search of Legitimacy”.