In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well as anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the legal recognition of identity.

Sébastien Grammond est professeur à la Section de droit civil de l’Université d’Ottawa depuis 2004. Il a enseigné le droit des obligations, le droit des autochtones, la procédure civile et le droit des affaires. Il est devenu professeur titulaire en 2011. Il a été vice-doyen à la recherche de 2005 à 2008, doyen par intérim de 2008 à 2009, puis doyen de 2009 à 2014. Ses recherches portent sur le droit des peuples autochtones et, sur le traitement juridique des problématiques minoritaires.

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