Constance Backhouse

Constance Backhouse is a professor of law, distinguished university professor, and university research chair at the University of Ottawa. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Manitoba (1972), her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall (1975), and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1979). She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1978. She teaches feminist law, criminal law, human rights, and labour law. She is the author of many award-winning legal history books, including Petticoats & Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1991), Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canadian Law, 1900–1950 (1999) and The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice (2004). She received the Law Society Medal in 1998 and an Honorary Doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2002. She has served as an elected bencher of the Law Society from 2002. She became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004.

Books by Constance Backhouse

Reckoning with Racism

Royally Wronged

Deux grandes dames: Bertha Wilson et Claire L’Heureux-Dubé à la Cour suprême du Canada

Two Firsts

Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

The Heiress vs the Establishment

People and Place

De la couleur des lois

Carnal Crimes

The Promise and Perils of Law

The Laskin Legacy

Colour-Coded

Challenging Times

Petticoats and Prejudice