Dr Grégoire Webber

Grégoire Webber is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Queen's University (Canada). His research is in the areas of human rights, public law, and philosophy of law. Professor Webber is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and professeur invité at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). He was previously Villey Fellow at the Institut Michel Villey, Paris II, and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.

A graduate of McGill University with bachelors of civil law and common law and of the University of Oxford with a doctorate in law, Professor Webber clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada, worked as a senior policy advisor with the Privy Council Office, and was Legal Affairs Advisor to the Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice. He is currently legal agent of the Department of Justice (Canada) and Executive Director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, which provides free advocacy advice to counsel appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada.