Grégoire Webber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grégoire Webber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grégoire |
| FAMILY NAME | Webber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBBER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8101-7159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19
Notwithstanding rights, review, or remedy? On the notwithstanding clause and the operation of legislation
The Charter’s notwithstanding clause makes exception to something, but what is that something? Received readings of the notwithstanding clause err in assuming that the clause makes exception to rights or to judicial review. It is argued, instead, that the clause makes exception to the remedy that follows from a finding that legislation is inconsistent with targeted rights and freedoms. That remedy is the one outlined in the Constitution’s suprema…
Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions
The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-1939
This book, first published in 1986, examines the activities and beliefs of right-wing Conservatives and overt Fascists in inter-war Britain. It analyses the role that ideology played in the various struggles between leaders and dissidents within the Conservative Party, traces the development of central themes in right-wing thought and seeks to show how the complexity of these beliefs established ideological barriers to the growth of Fascism in Br…
Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning
To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality provides a common analytical framework for resolving th…
Rationalism in Public Law
Rationalism is ‘the stylistic criterion of all respectable politics’. So lamented political philosopher M ichael O akeshott in a series of essays published in the 1940s and 1950s. Rationalism, for O akeshott, is shorthand for a propensity to prioritise the universal over the local, the uniform over the particular and, ultimately, principle over practice. It culminates in the triumph of abstract principles over practical knowledge in a manner that…
Machiavellian Democracy by John P McCormick
The Unfulfilled Potential of the Court and Legislature Dialogue
Constitutional scholarship has been exploring the idea that the court and the legislature engage in a dialogue over the meaning of the constitution. Yet, despite many contributions to the idea of dialogue over the last decade, its potential remains unfulfilled. The epistemological potential of dialogue remains understudied, in part because the court continues to be viewed as the supreme, if not also the sole, expounder of the constitution. For di…
A Confused Court: Equivocations on Recognising Same‐Sex Relationships in South Africa
Same-Sex Marriage in Canada: Contributions from the Courts, the Executive and Parliament
The same-sex marriage debate in Canada has involved all three branches of government, including judgments from several provincial courts of appeal ruling the traditional definition of marriage to be contrary to the equality provision of the Canadian Charter. However, the Supreme Court has recently reversed this trend in declining to answer the question at the heart of the debate; namely, whether equality between same-sex couples and opposite-sex …
Patterns of Membership and Support for the British Union of Fascists
There are two questions about the British Union of Fascists (BUF) which nobody has so far been able to answer with confidence, namely: how many people joined the fascist movement in Britain and what sort of people were they? In answer to the first question, scholars have agreed that the BUF attracted about 40,000 members in 1934 (most of whom were quickly lost), but have then differed about the fate of the movement after 1935. Some have argued th…
Patterns of Membership and Support for the British Union of Fascists
There are two questions about the British Union of Fascists (BUF) which nobody has so far been able to answer with confidence, namely: how many people joined the fascist movement in Britain and what sort of people were they? In answer to the first question, scholars have agreed that the BUF attracted about 40,000 members in 1934 (most of whom were quickly lost), but have then differed about the fate of the movement after 1935. Some have argued th…
Notwithstanding rights, review, or remedy? On the notwithstanding clause and the operation of legislation
The Charter’s notwithstanding clause makes exception to something, but what is that something? Received readings of the notwithstanding clause err in assuming that the clause makes exception to rights or to judicial review. It is argued, instead, that the clause makes exception to the remedy that follows from a finding that legislation is inconsistent with targeted rights and freedoms. That remedy is the one outlined in the Constitution’s suprema…
The Unfulfilled Potential of the Court and Legislature Dialogue
Constitutional scholarship has been exploring the idea that the court and the legislature engage in a dialogue over the meaning of the constitution. Yet, despite many contributions to the idea of dialogue over the last decade, its potential remains unfulfilled. The epistemological potential of dialogue remains understudied, in part because the court continues to be viewed as the supreme, if not also the sole, expounder of the constitution. For di…
Patterns of Membership and Support for the British Union of Fascists
There are two questions about the British Union of Fascists (BUF) which nobody has so far been able to answer with confidence, namely: how many people joined the fascist movement in Britain and what sort of people were they? In answer to the first question, scholars have agreed that the BUF attracted about 40,000 members in 1934 (most of whom were quickly lost), but have then differed about the fate of the movement after 1935. Some have argued th…
Same-Sex Marriage in Canada: Contributions from the Courts, the Executive and Parliament
The same-sex marriage debate in Canada has involved all three branches of government, including judgments from several provincial courts of appeal ruling the traditional definition of marriage to be contrary to the equality provision of the Canadian Charter. However, the Supreme Court has recently reversed this trend in declining to answer the question at the heart of the debate; namely, whether equality between same-sex couples and opposite-sex …
A Confused Court: Equivocations on Recognising Same‐Sex Relationships in South Africa
The Unfulfilled Potential of the Court and Legislature Dialogue
Constitutional scholarship has been exploring the idea that the court and the legislature engage in a dialogue over the meaning of the constitution. Yet, despite many contributions to the idea of dialogue over the last decade, its potential remains unfulfilled. The epistemological potential of dialogue remains understudied, in part because the court continues to be viewed as the supreme, if not also the sole, expounder of the constitution. For di…
Machiavellian Democracy by John P McCormick
Rationalism in Public Law
Rationalism is ‘the stylistic criterion of all respectable politics’. So lamented political philosopher M ichael O akeshott in a series of essays published in the 1940s and 1950s. Rationalism, for O akeshott, is shorthand for a propensity to prioritise the universal over the local, the uniform over the particular and, ultimately, principle over practice. It culminates in the triumph of abstract principles over practical knowledge in a manner that…
Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning
To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality provides a common analytical framework for resolving th…
The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-1939
This book, first published in 1986, examines the activities and beliefs of right-wing Conservatives and overt Fascists in inter-war Britain. It analyses the role that ideology played in the various struggles between leaders and dissidents within the Conservative Party, traces the development of central themes in right-wing thought and seeks to show how the complexity of these beliefs established ideological barriers to the growth of Fascism in Br…
Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19
Notwithstanding rights, review, or remedy? On the notwithstanding clause and the operation of legislation
The Charter’s notwithstanding clause makes exception to something, but what is that something? Received readings of the notwithstanding clause err in assuming that the clause makes exception to rights or to judicial review. It is argued, instead, that the clause makes exception to the remedy that follows from a finding that legislation is inconsistent with targeted rights and freedoms. That remedy is the one outlined in the Constitution’s suprema…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Constitution (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Citation (2 works)