For the nature of law generally, Indigenous legal orders, and the work of Lon Fuller: Webber, “The Grammar of Customary Law” (2009) 54 McGill L.J.He was appointed a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2009 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2016. He surrendered the chair to serve as Dean of Law. Before coming to UVic, Professor Webber was Dean of Law at the University of Sydney, Australia (1998-2002) and Professor of Law at McGill University (1987-1998). Prior to becoming Dean, Professor Webber held the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at UVic from 2002 to 2014. Professor Webber was UVic’s Dean of Law from 2013 to 2018.
See “Selected Publications” below for a selection of his principal publications, or click on the link to his curriculum vitae. He also seeks to restore to his work a concern with the law of property and especially economic inequality, in particular the latter’s corrosive effects upon democratic constitutional orders. His current writing continues these themes, now focusing in particular on exploring the principal features of a truly democratic, agonistic, constitutionalism. He is the author of Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution (1994), The Constitution of Canada: A Contextual Analysis (second edition: 2021), and Las gramáticas de la ley: Derecho, pluralismo y justicia (2017). He has written widely in legal theory, constitutional theory, Indigenous rights, federalism, cultural diversity, and constitutional law in Canada and in relation to other countries (especially Australia). Jeremy Webber is Professor of Law at the University of Victoria. Faculty of Law University of Victoria PO Box 1700, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Map