JOHN BORROWS
Adress
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 2400, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 3H7
Canada
Contact
Email: jborrows@uvic.ca
Tel: 250-721-8167
Fax: 250-721-8146
Brief Biography
B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall), F.R.S.C.
Professor Borrows holds the Law Foundation Professorship of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Previously, he was: Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto; Associate Professor and Director of First Nations Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law at UBC; and Associate Professor and Director of the Intensive Programme in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Professor Borrows has also served as: Visiting Professor and Acting Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visitor at Waikato University; Visiting Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School; and Visiting Professor at J. Rueben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. He teaches in the areas of Canadian and U.S. Constitutional Law, Indigenous Law, and U.S. Federal Indian Law.
His book, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law, received the Donald Smiley Award as the best book in Canadian political science. His two most recent books are Canada’s Indigenous Constitution and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide, both from the University of Toronto Press. Professor Borrows is a recipient of an Aboriginal Achievement Award in Law and Justice, a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, and a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC) — Canada's highest academic award. He is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
