Law with Heart
Centring Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
Reimagining legal education.
Engaging with law, beautifully.
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Welcome to the virtual home of Law with Heart. My teaching, research, artistic, and professional practices centre anti-colonial and therapeutic approaches to engaging with law. The use of beadwork practice as a tool for legal knowledge production and mobilization in academic research is critical to my research ceremony (Wilson, 2008).
In my scholarly work, for example, I supplement written work with acts of persuasive legal aesthetics (D. Lindberg, 2019), beading a range of handwork from traditional garments such as shawls to pieces framed to hang on display. Used in this way, created in parallel with traditional academic writing, beadwork can serve to open conversations with Learners and colleagues and support the revitalization of Indigenous legal knowledge systems.
Beadwork, when created with intention…
Can allow us to build relationships to ideas in new ways that engage not only mind knowledge but also heart-knowledge in our study of law in a distinct but complementary way to the use of beading practice as a teaching or classroom-based pedagogy.
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As a pedagogical practice employed in the classroom or in the context of a Faculty community beading circle, beadwork carries possibilities for reimaging legal education, supporting whole-Learner education across the four spheres of learning (cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual), and incorporating therapeutic approaches into the classroom setting.
I invite you to explore this space to learn more about my vision for legal education that makes space for law with heart, for beadwork practice employed as a decolonial tool within the legal profession and the academy, and other efforts to recentre Indigenous Ways of Knowing in post-secondary education.
