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About the Speaker

John Borrows
Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School

Professor John Borrows, BA, MA, JD, LLM (Toronto), PhD (Osgoode Hall Law School), LLD (Hons.)(Dalhousie) FRSC, is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School.

Prior to joining the Faculty, he was Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School. He has also been a full time Law Faculty member at the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.

His publications include Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002), Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide, all 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 honor, and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Peoples Counsel (IPC) from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honor and integrity in service to Indigenous communities.

He is Anishinaabe and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.

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