Faculty directory

Courses

• The Constitutional Law Process - 100
  
• Democratic Constitutionalism - 343
• Civil Liberties and the Charter - 359
• Law, Constitutionalism and Cultural Difference - 375

Research

Books:

1. Editor (with Hamar Foster and Heather Raven) Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007).
   
   
2. Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994).
   
   
3. Co-author (as member of Labour Law Casebook Group), Labour Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary 5th ed. (Kingston, Ont: Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University, 1991). (Responsible for the chapter on Industrial Conflict, 178 pages, and made contributions to other chapters, especially regarding Quebec labour law.)

Articles:

• “The Grammar of Customary Law” (2009) 54 McGill Law Journal/Revue de Droit de McGill 579-626

• "Naturalism and Agency in the Living Law"  in Marc Hertogh, ed., Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich   (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009)  201-221

• "Understanding the religion in freedom of religion" in Peter Cane, Carolyn Evans and Zöe Robinson, eds., Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) 26-43

• "The Separation of Church from State" in Leslie A. Kenny, Clashing Fundamentalisms:  When Rival Truth Claims Meet Head-On (Victoria: Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2008) 58-86. 

• "National Sovereignty, Migration, and the Tenuous Hold of International Legality: The Resurfacing (and Resubmersion?) of Carl Schmitt" in Oliver Schmidtke and Saime Ozcurumez, eds., Of States, Rights, and Social Closure:  Governing Migration and Citizenship (New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 61-90. 

• (with Christina Godlewska) "The Calder Decision, Aboriginal Title, Treaties, and the Nisga'a" in Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, and Jeremy Webber, eds., Let Right Be Done:  Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007) 1-33. 

• "A Judicial Ethic for a Pluralistic Age" in Omid Payrow Shabani, ed., Multiculturalism and Law:  A Critical Debate (Cardiff:  University of Wales Press, 2007) 67-100. 

• "The Past and Foreign Countries" (2006) 10 Australian Journal of Legal History 1-11. 

• "Legal Pluralism and Human Agency" (2006) 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 167-198. 

• "A Modest (but Robust) Defence of Statutory Bills of Rights" in Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy and Adrienne Stone, eds., Human Rights Without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) 263-287. 

• "Democratic Decision Making as the First Principle of Contemporary Constitutionalism" in Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana, eds., The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2006) 411-430. 

• "The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion" in Avigail Eisenberg, ed., Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006) 178-200. 

• "Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and their Modes of Redress" in David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran, eds., Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) 165-195. 

•   "Legal Research, the Law Schools and the Profession" (2004) 26 Sydney Law Review 565-586. 

•   "Culture, Legal Culture, and Legal Reasoning: A Comment on Nelken" (2004) 29 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 27-36. 

• "Commentary:  Indigenous Dispute Settlement, Self-Governance, and the Second Generation of Indigenous Rights" in Catherine Bell and David Kahane, eds., Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004) 149-157. 

• "Supreme Courts, Independence and Democratic Agency" (2004) 24 Legal Studies 55-72. 

• "The Foundation of the Rule of Law in the Public Justification of Governmental Action" published in Chinese in (2002) 18 Nanjing University Law Review (Nanjing Daxue Falu Pinlun) 1-13. 

• "Institutional Dialogue between Courts and Legislatures in the Definition of Fundamental Rights: Lessons from Canada (and elsewhere)" in Wojciech Sadurski, ed., Constitutional Justice, East and West: Democratic Legitimacy and Constitutional Courts in Post-Communist Europe in a Comparative Perspective (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002) 61-99; adapted version published in (2003) 9 Australian Journal of Human Rights 135-182. 

•  "Conflicts between Cree Hunting and Sport Hunting: Co-Management Decision Making at James Bay" (with Colin H Scott) in Colin H Scott, ed., Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001) 149-174. 

• "Multiculturalism and the Australian Constitution" (2001) 24 University of New South Wales Law Journal 882-893. 

•  "Constitutional Reticence" (2000) 25 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 125-155. 

• "Beyond Regret: Mabo's Implications for Australian Constitutionalism" in Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, and Will Sanders, eds., Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 60-88. 

• "Die Legalität einer einseitigen Unabhängigkeitserklärung nach kanadischem Recht" (2000) 48 (Neue folge) Jahrbuch des Öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 421-469 [German version of "The Legality of a Unilateral Declaration of Independence", below]. 

• "Constitutional Poetry: The Tension Between Symbolic and Functional Aims in Constitutional Reform" (1999) 21 Sydney Law Review 260-277. 

• "Just How Civic is Civic Nationalism in Quebec" in Alan C. Cairns et al., eds., Citizenship, Diversity and Pluralism: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999) 87-107. 

• "Una constitución asimétrica" in Enric Fossas and Ferran Requejo, eds., Asimetría Federal y Estado Plurinacional: El debate sobre la acomodación de la diversidad en Canadá, Bélgica y España (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1999) 99-139 [Spanish translation of chapter 7 of Reimagining Canada].  

• "Native Title as Self-Government" (1999) 5(2) University of New South Wales LJ Forum 5-7. 

• "Commitment and Community in the Inter-Referendum Period" (1997) 9 Constitutional Forum 1-8. 

• "The Legality of a Unilateral Declaration of Independence under Canadian Law" (1997) 42 McGill Law Journal 281-318. 

• "The Rule of Law Reconceived" in Kálmán Kulcsár and Denis Szabo, eds., Dual Images: Multiculturalism on Two Sides of the Atlantic (Budapest: Royal Society of Canada and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1996) 197-207. 

• "Multiculturalism and the Limits to Toleration" in André Lapierre, Patricia Smart and Pierre Savard, eds., Language, Culture and Values in Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Ottawa: International Council for Canadian Studies and Carleton University Press, 1996) 269-279. 

•  "Rapports de force, rapports de justice: la genèse d'une communauté normative entre colonisateurs et colonisés" in Jean-Guy Belley, éd., Le droit soluble: Contributions québécoises à l'étude de l'internormativité (Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1996) 113-149. 

• "Relations of Force and Relations of Justice: the emergence of normative community between colonists and Aboriginal peoples" [English version of above article] (1995) 33 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 623-660. 

• "Labour and the Law" in Paul Craven, ed., Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in 19th Century Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press/Ontario Historical Studies Series, 1995) 105-201. 

• "La référendum et l'avenir des anglophones du Québec/The Referendum and the Future of Anglophones in Quebec" (1995) 1(9) [I.R.P.P.] Choices: Québec-Canada series 16-27. 

• "The Jurisprudence of Regret: The Search for Standards of Justice in Mabo" (1995) 17 Sydney Law Review 5-28. 

• "Tales of the Unexpected: Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" (1993) 5 Canterbury Law Review 207-234. 

• Contributor to a collaborative volume under the general editorship of John E.C. Brierley and Roderick A. Macdonald, Quebec Civil Law: An Introduction to Quebec Private Law (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery, 1993) (responsible for the sections on moveables/immoveables, ownership, occupation, prescription, accession, and registration). 

• "Individuality, Equality and Difference: Justifications for a Parallel System of Aboriginal Justice" in Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, ed., Aboriginal Peoples and the Justice System: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Justice Issues (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1993) 133-160. 

• "The Adjudication of Contested Social Values: Implications of Attitudinal Bias for the Appointment of Judges" in Appointing Judges: Philosophy, Politics and Practice: Papers Prepared for the Ontario Law Reform Commission (Toronto: OLRC, 1991) 3-29. 

• "Compelling Compromise: Canada Chooses Conciliation over Arbitration, 1900-1907" (1991) 28 Labour/Le Travail 15-57; republished in Laurel Sefton MacDowell and Ian Radforth, eds., Canadian Working Class History 2nd ed. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000). 

• "The Mediation of Ideology: How Conciliation Boards, Through the Mediation of Particular Disputes, Fashioned a Vision of Labour's Place within Canadian Society" (1989) 7(2) Law in Context (Melbourne) 1-23. 

• "Living Wage and Living Profit: Wage Determination by Conciliation Boards under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907-1925" in W. Wesley Pue and Barry Wright, eds., Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Issues in Legal History (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988) 207-242. 

•  "Evidence in Charter Interpretation: A Comment on B.C. Teachers' Federation v. A.G. B.C." (1988) 23 Carswell Practice Cases (2d) 245-268. 

• "The Malaise of Compulsory Conciliation: Strike Prevention in Canada During World War II" (1985) 15 Labour/Le Travail 57-88; abridged version republished in Bryan D. Palmer, ed., The Character of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History, 1850-1985 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986). 

• "The Limits to Judges' Free Speech: A Comment on the Report of the Committee of Investigation into the Conduct of the Honourable Mr. Justice Berger" (1984) 29 McGill Law Journal 370-406.

Notes, Comments and Reviews: 

• Interview, "Frank Calder and Thomas Berger:  A Conversation" in Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, and Jeremy Webber, eds., Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver:  University of British Columbia Press, 2007) 37-53. 

• "The Inauguration of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence" (2000) 25 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 123-124. 

• "Constitutional Poetry" (1999) 74 Reform: A Journal of National and International Law Reform 17-23. 

• "Normative Autonomy and the Judicialisation of Tribunals" (1998) 19 Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum 22-27. 

• "Commentaire sur la nature sociale du droit et le rôle du pouvoir" in Andrée Lajoie et al., eds., Théories et émergence du droit: pluralisme, surdétermination et effectivité (Montreal: Thémis, 1998) 191-197. 

• "Why they protest" (1998) 3(6) [Council for Canadian Unity] Direction 1-2. 

• "Nota Bene... National Unity Bills" (1996) 5(1) Literary Review of Canada 5.  

• "The Response to Parizeau's ‘Ethnic Vote'" (1995) 4 Canada Watch 34-35. 

• "Constitutional Exhaustion? A Response to Ramsay Cook" (1995) 4(2) Literary Review of Canada 23. 

• "Réponse à Ramsay Cook" (1994) 22(6) Cité Libre 10-2 [French version of above article, translated by Pierre Joncas].  

• "Understanding the Recent Developments in Canadian Constitutional Reform: A Contextual Overview" (1993) 16 [A.B.A.] Canadian Law Newsletter 33-40.  

• Book review of: Philip Resnick, Letters to a Québécois Friend, with a reply by Daniel Latouche Canadian Forum, May 1990, 28-29. 

• Book review of: John Stanton, Never Say Die!: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Labour Lawyer (1989) 96 Queens' Quarterly 538-539.  

• Book review of: Paul Craven, "An Impartial Umpire": Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911 (1983) 16 Canadian Journal of Political Science 179-180.

 

Newspaper Articles:  

• "Canadian Muslims are fellow citizens" [Victoria] Times Colonist (24 November 2006) A19.

• "The frustration of international law in current conflict" [Victoria] Times Colonist (7 April 2003) A9.

• "Missing: a positive political morality" The Australian Financial Review (26 March 2002) 63.

• "The value of adaptability is more than symbolic" The Australian (2 November 1998).

• "Kirim Tatarlari Yardimi hak Ediyor" Emel, online Journal of Crimean Tartars, [www.euronet.nl/users/sota/emel2304.html] (Tatar version of article below).

• "Crimea's Tatars deserve help" Kyiv Post (9 October 1997).

• "Caging Quebec is the wrong strategy" The Montreal Gazette (4 March 1996). 

• Article on the content and strategy of constitutional renewal, following the referendum, published under various titles in the Montreal Gazette, the Toronto Star, the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, and perhaps other papers, November 1995.

• "Difficile avenir pour la communauté anglophone dans un Québec souverain" La Presse (18 mars 1992). 

• "Repression is not the solution to unity crisis" The Montreal Gazette (4 December 1991). 

• "Choosing our judges: Canada's courts need diversity, openness" The Ottawa Citizen (5 September 1990). 

• With Ron Watts and Peter Russell, "On Meech, all sides must now show generosity" The Toronto Star (25 May 1990).
  
  

• "Myth about Meech Lake" The Winnipeg Free Press (23 March 1990).

• Article regarding distinct society clause, co-authored with Wade MacLauchlan, translated by Daniel Jutras, signed by several colleagues, and published under various titles in English and French in The [Montreal] Gazette, La Presse, The Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, the Kingston Whig-Standard, the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the McGill Reporter, and I believe others, in November and December 1989.

CV

Professor Webber's CV (January 2009)