{"id":12080,"date":"2024-02-28T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12080"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:06","slug":"constance-backhouse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/constance-backhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Constance Backhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Constance Backhouse\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Constance-Backhouse-160x203.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Constance-Backhouse-160x203.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Constance-Backhouse-200x253.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Constance-Backhouse.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Constance Backhouse was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 12, \u201cin recognition of outstanding contributions to the human rights advocacy and the advancement of social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constance Backhouse is a Distinguished University Professor and the University Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. She teaches in the areas of criminal law, human rights, legal history, and women and<br>\nthe law. She has published a number of books on legal history, the most recent being Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 which was awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize and shortlisted for the Harold Adams Innis Prize. Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950, was republished in French as <em>De la couleur des lois: Une histoire juridique du racisme au Canada<\/em> entre 1900 et 1950 and won the Joseph Brant Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada won the Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History. She is a co-founder of the Feminist History Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the writing and publication of a series of books on the history of second-wave Canadian feminism. She holds&nbsp;three honorary doctorate degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Il Diamond Jubilee Medal. Her many awards include the Killam Prizes, the Trudeau Fellowship, and the Social Science ; a and Humanities Research Council of Canada Geld Medal. She is also a member of the Order of Canada, as well as the Order of Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1BBViP3jG0Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Constance Backhouse<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constance Backhouse was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 12, \u201cin recognition of outstanding contributions to the human rights advocacy and the advancement of social justice.\u201d Constance Backhouse is a Distinguished University Professor and the University Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. 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