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John Borrows receives 2024 Guthrie Award from Law Foundation of Ontario

John Borrows, professor and inaugural Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law at the Faculty of Law, has received the , which recognizes exceptional champions of access to justice.

Borrows was recognized for his transformative impact on how the academic and legal sectors understand and intersect with Indigenous law and for his innovations in teaching that have been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Borrows is Anishinaabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewas of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario. He teaches a course to first-year law students that addresses the intersection of Indigenous Peoples鈥 laws with Canada's laws. Over the past decade, he has taught an intensive course in Anishinaabe law and legal tradition, often bringing students to his People's Neyaashiinigmiing reserve to meet with Elders, Chiefs, colleagues and teachers and experience Indigenous law in context.

鈥淛ohn has integrated Indigenous law rooted in Indigenous Peoples鈥 natural and social environment into the very heart of legal education,鈥 says  Jutta Brunn茅e, dean of the Faculty of Law and James Marshall Tory Dean鈥檚 Chair. 鈥淗is extraordinary work revivifying Indigenous law has also contributed to a re-envisioning of the potential of law and participatory democracy."

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