Books by Constance Backhouse

Going beyond jurisprudential legacy to provide rich sociocultural context, Claire L'Heureux-Dube is an exploration of the controversial and historically transformative career of the first Quebec woman on Canada's Supreme Court.

A rare first-person account of Canada's early twentieth century legal system, this books retells the Mrs. Campbell fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment to claim her mother's estate.

A richly textured narrative that seeks to capture the role played by the law in the definition of race and shoring up of racial repression in Canada.