Professor John Borrows is Anishinabe and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash first Nation. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law as Professor and Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Justice and Governance in 2001. Prior to joining the Faculty he taught at: the University of Toronto; the University of British Colombia as the Director of the First Nations Law Program; Osgoode Hall Law School as the Director of the Intensive Program in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments; and, was a visiting professor at Arizona State University and Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program. His research interests are in aboriginal law, constitutional law and natural resources/environmental law and has several publications. He obtained his LLB in 1991 from U of T; LLM from U of T and D.Jur from Osgoode in 1994.