Constance Backhouse

Who is Constance Backhouse?

Constance Barbara Backhouse, CM OOnt FRSC is a Canadian legal scholar and historian, specializing in gender and race discrimination. She is a Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to her academic publications, Backhouse is the author of several books on feminist- and race-related legal rights topics. Backhouse is President of the American Society of Legal History, and is the first non-US scholar to hold this position.