20 Facts About John Borrows

John Borrows is a full professor of law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law.

John Borrows is known as a leading authority on Canadian Indigenous law and constitutional law and has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.

John Borrows grew up near the Cape Croker reserve on Georgian Bay in Ontario.

John Borrows's mother ran away in order to escape being sent to a residential school.

John Borrows's uncle was a former chief, a great-grandfather was a long-serving councillor, and his great-great-grandfather was one of the signatories to a land treaty with the Crown.

John Borrows received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in politics and history.

John Borrows went on to earn his Doctor of Law and Master of Laws at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and his Doctor of Philosophy at Osgoode Hall Law School.

John Borrows taught at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1992 until 1998, where he was the first First Nations Legal Studies Director.

From 1998, until 2001, John Borrows taught law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he helped start the June Callwood program in Aboriginal law.

In 1999, John Borrows worked in the newly created northern territory of Nunavut to help develop its legal infrastructure.

John Borrows taught as part of the Akitsiraq Law School, which was a temporary branch of the University of Victoria Faculty of Law.

In 2001, John Borrows joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, teaching there for most of the next decade.

John Borrows has been involved in the Indigenous Law programs at Osgoode Hall, the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Western Law, and McGill University Faculty of Law.

John Borrows was a visiting professor at Arizona State University College of Law, University of New South Wales, Waikato University, Brigham Young University, University of Arizona, Princeton University, and McGill University.

John Borrows is known as a leading authority on Canadian indigenous law and constitutional law and has been cited multiple times by the Supreme Court of Canada.

John Borrows was awarded an National Aboriginal Achievement Award for his legal work.

John Borrows has been a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, and a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 2017, John Borrows won the Killam Prize for Social Science.

John Borrows has received several honorary degrees, including one from Dalhousie University.

John Borrows was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2021.