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89 Neb. L. Rev. 819 (2010-2011)
The International Law of Discovery, Indigenous Peoples, and Chile

handle is hein.journals/nebklr89 and id is 826 raw text is: Robert J. Miller,* Lisa LeSage, and Sebastiln L6pez Escarcena'
The International Law of Discovery,
Indigenous Peoples, and Chile
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction   .................................. 820
II. The Doctrine of Discovery    ........................ 822
A. European and Church Formulation of the Doctrine. 826
B. Spanish and Portuguese Development of the
Doctrine   ................................... 830
1. Spain takes Discovery to the New World ....... 835
2. The Philosophical Debates in the Spanish
Empire    ................................. 838
C. Other European Countries and Discovery .......... 846
III. The Doctrine of Discovery in Chilean Law and History. 850
A. First Discovery .    ............................. 850
B. Actual Occupancy and Current Possession ......... 853
C. Preemption/European Title    ..................... 857
D. Native Title ................     ................ 861
E. Native Limited Sovereign and Commercial Rights.. 863
F. Contiguity        ................................. 867
G. Terra Nullius   ............................... 869
H. Christianity       ................................ 871
I. Civilization  ............................... 873
J. Conquest ...     .................................. 876
K. Rapa Nui (Easter Island)    ...................... 878
* Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon; Chief Justice, Court of
Appeals, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community; Citizen, Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
SAssociate Dean and Director, Business Law Programs, Lewis & Clark Law
School, Portland, Oregon; Fulbright Lecturer in Law, 2010, Pontificia Univer-
sidad Cat6lica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Assistant Professor of Law and full time Researcher, Pontificia Universidad
Cat6lica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Faculty of Law, Santiago, Chile; PhD (Edin-
burgh), LLM (Leiden), Abogado (Chile), LLB, BA, Pontificia Universidad Cat6lica
de Chile.
The authors thank Milos Bosanac, J.D. 2010, Lewis & Clark Law School, and
Sarah Elisabeth Freeman, J.D. 2010, Lewis & Clark Law School, for their re-
search and translation assistance, and Shanelle Honda, J.D. expected 2013, for
her assistance with citation checking.

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