John Borrows
Professor Borrows holds the Law Foundation Professorship of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law and the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School. 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 in New Zealand; Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School; and Visiting Professor at J. Rueben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.
He teaches in the area 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. 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 (Source: http://www.law.uvic.ca/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/borrows.php )