On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
Jeremy Webber
Jeremy Webber is professor of law at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was professor of law at McGill University from 1987 to 1998 and Dean of Law at the University of Sydney from 1998 to 2002, when he moved to Victoria to take up the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society. He surrendered that chair to become dean at the University of Victoria, a position he held from 2013 to 2018. Professor Webber has published widely in the fields of legal and political theory, comparative constitutional law, and indigenous rights (in both the Canadian and Australian contexts), including Las gramáticas de la ley: Derecho, pluralismo y justicia (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2017), trans Francisco Beltrán Adell and Álvaro R. Córdova Flores; Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community, and the Canadian Constitution (McGill-Queen’s University Press 1994); and The Constitution of Canada: A Contextual Analysis (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015). He was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016.
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