Borrows, John

John Borrows is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Law and Justice at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Prior to joining the Faculty, he was Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, Associate Professor and First Nations Legal Studies Director at the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia and Associate Professor and Director of the Intensive Programme in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.

John Borrow’s expertise is in Indigenous law, environmental law, and constitutional law. His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (2002), Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (2016), and most recently, Resurgence and Reconciliation(with Michael Asch, Jim Tully, eds.).

Research Interests: Indigenous law; Environmental law; Constitutional law