On Cultural Rights : The Equality of Nations and the Minority Legal Tradition.

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Abbreviations -- Section I. The Minority Legal Tradition -- 1. On Cultural Rights: Introduction, Research Methodology, and Literature Review -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1a. What is a Cultural Right? -- 1.1b. State Responsibility for the Implementation of Minority Rights -- 1.2. Research Methodologies: The Jurisprudential Context -- 1.2a. The Contextual Approach -- 1.3. Literature Review: Multiculturalism -- 1.3a. Introduction -- 1.3b. Minority Rights and Liberal Theory -- 1.3c. Minority Rights Case Studies -- Section II. History of the Minority Regime -- 2. History of the Minority Question -- 2.1. Defi nitions -- 2.2. Minority Groups and the Nation-State -- 2.3. To End All Wars -- 2.4. The Equality of Nations -- 2.5. The League of Nations' Minority Protection Treaty System -- 2.6. The Permanent Court of International Justice and the Minority Schools in Albania Opinion -- 2.7. Decline of the Minority Protection Treaty System -- 3. Minority Protection in the Era of Human Rights -- 3.1. Minorities as the Nazis Human Dynamite -- 3.2. One People Nationalism -- 3.3. The Soviet Union, Minorities, and the Cold War -- 3.4. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 -- 3.5. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 -- 3.6. Article 27 of the ICCPR: The Rights of Minorities -- Section III. Minority Group Case Studies -- 4. The Minority Regime and the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada -- 4.1. The Aboriginal Peoples of Canada -- 4.2. The Repeal of the Indian Act -- 4.3. History of Canada's Indian [Aboriginal] Laws -- 4.4. The Basis for Canada's Aboriginal Legal Regime -- 4.5. The Forced Assimilation of Aboriginal-Canadians -- 4.6. Coercive Tutelage and the Residential School System -- 4.7. The Canada - HRC Relationship -- 4.8. Canadian Implementation of the Lovelace Decision.

4.9. Bill C-31 and the Indian Act -- 4.10. De-Colonisation and Aboriginal Legal Status -- 4.11. Restoring Aboriginal Sovereignty: Transition From Dependent to Independent Peoples -- 5. Minority Rights and the Roma of Europe -- 5.1. Summary of Europe's Minority regime -- 5.2. The Roma Peoples -- 5.3. Extra-judicial Execution of the Roma -- 5.4. The Roma-British Challenge to Persecution for Vagrancy -- 5.5. Great Britain's Margin of Appreciation -- 5.6. The Concept of Equality in the ECHR Roma Cases -- 5.7. Cultural Protection for the Roma Minority -- 5.8. The Roma and Minority Self-identifi cation -- 5.8a. Th e Cultural Basis for Persecution of the Roma -- 5.9. Conclusion -- Section IV. Conclusions -- 6. Conclusion -- 6a. Canada's Recognition of Aboriginal Nations -- 6b. State Recognition of the Roma Peoples -- 6c. Constitutionalisation of the Minority Regime -- 6.1. Consequences of the Minority Regime -- 6.1a. Balkanisation and The Minorit y Regime -- 6.1b. Human Rights and the Minorit y Regime -- 6.1c. Final Comments -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Author.