Australian historicity is built on the absence of the Aboriginal subjective experience. The Right to Dream explores the temporal consequence of the imposition of the homogenous Aborigine, a social and political construction that effectively annihilated the right to exist as individual bodies within the earth space and its consequence on the well being of Indigenous peoples upon whom it was imposed. The Right to Dream is especially an attempt to understand my own subjective experience as an Aborigine in the land now known as Australia, and process that would in the words of Dr. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, propel me from being the known to the knower. The assimilation of the Indigenous body by western language has had devastating affects on the body as well as the land, and it is in this context that this thesis explores the notion of destruction of Indigenous peoples, their cultures and physical, spiritual, and emotional well being as being synonymous to the consequent destruction of their lands, marked by the loss of Indigenous languages throughout the country now known as Australia. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Cette thèse en histoire du droit et des idées politiques s'intéresse à un juriste républicain de la fin du XIX° siècle, qui a connu les débuts de la III° République parlementaire. Son oeuvre juridique est passionnante, érudite, minutieuse. Il démontre que le droit peut être renouvelé par la méthode empirique de l'histoire. L'histoire est le reflet de la vie des peuples et donc de la société. Du point de vue des sources du droit, il rehausse quelque peu la coutume et la jurisprudence afin d'adapter la loi, prise au sens formel. / This thesis in story of the law and the political ideas is interested in a republican jurist of the end of XIX °century, which knew the beginning of III ° parliamentary Republic. His legal work is fascinating, erudite, and meticulous. He demonstrates that the law can be renewed by the empirical method of the story. The story is the reflection of the life of the peoples and thus the society. From the point of view of the sources of the law, he enhances a little the custom and the decisions of the Court to adapt the law, taken in the formal sense.