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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Grégoire Webber\, BCL/LLB'03\, Lecturer\nin Law at the
  London School of Economics.\nPrior to joining the LSE\, Dr Webber was sen
 ior policy advisor\nwith the Privy Council Office\, where he advised the G
 overnment of\nCanada on matters of constitutional policy with a focus on\n
 electoral and parliamentary reform. Dr Webber is co-founder and\nExecutive
  Director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute\, which\nprovides free a
 dvocacy advice to counsel appearing before the\nSupreme Court of Canada. H
 e is a member of the Law Society of Upper\nCanada.\nAbout the book\nIn mat
 ters of rights\, constitutions tend to avoid settling\ncontroversies. With
  few exceptions\, rights are formulated in\nopen-ended language\, seeking 
 consensus on an abstraction without\npurporting to resolve the many moral-
 political questions implicated\nby rights. The resulting view has been tha
 t rights extend\neverywhere but are everywhere infringed by legislation se
 eking to\nresolve the very moral-political questions the constitution seek
 s\nto avoid. The Negotiable Constitution challenges this view. Arguing\nth
 at underspecified rights call for greater specification\, Grégoire\nC. N. 
 Webber draws on limitation clauses common to most bills of\nrights to deve
 lop a new understanding of the relationship between\nrights and legislatio
 n. The legislature is situated as a key\nconstitutional actor tasked with 
 completing the specification of\nconstitutional rights. In turn\, because 
 the constitutional project\nis incomplete with regards to rights\, it is o
 pen to being\nre-negotiated by legislation struggling with the very\nmoral
 -political questions left underdetermined at the\nconstitutional level.\n
DTSTART:20100512T160000Z
DTEND:20100512T180000Z
LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Legal Theory Workshop - The Negotiable Constitution
URL:/channels/event/legal-theory-workshop-negotiable-c
 onstitution-114717
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