Professor Jeremy Webber

Jeremy Webber is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Victoria (Canada). 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). 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).

His current writing continues these themes, now focusing both on his work in legal pluralism and Indigenous governance, and on exploring the principal features of a truly democratic, agonistic, constitutionalism. He especially 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.

Professor Webber was Professor of Law at the University of Victoria (“UVic”) from 2002 until his move to emeritus status in 2023. From 2002 to 2014, he held the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society (tier 1) at UVic, which he surrendered to serve as UVic’s Dean of Law (2013-2018). 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, Canada (1987-1998). He was appointed a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2009 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2016.