Constance Backhouse has been working for a decade on a massive biography of Supreme Court of Canada justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé. It's a declaredly feminist biography of a judge greatly admired by many -- sensationally criticized by others -- for developing a powerful feminist jurisprudence within Canadian law.
It's a full scale biography, from L'Heureux-Dubé's early years as the only woman lawyer practising in Quebec City, in association with almost the only Jewish lawyer practising there, to her post-retirement involvement in Quebec's reasonable accommodation debates. To complete the work, Backhouse not only conducted 200 interviews and looked at seemingly every possible document, but also mastered French, which seems fairly heroic.
An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936 is the book he was working on when he found and publicised the stash.
