Constance Backhouse is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. She has published a number of prize-winning books: Petticoats & Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada; Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada; The Heiress vs the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice; Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada 1900–1975; and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Life. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2008.