As Queen’s Law continues to expand its faculty, it is proud to welcome a scholar with impeccable credentials in philosophy as well as law.

Professor Jacob Weinrib has a JD, as well as a PhD, MA and BA in Philosophy – all from the University of Toronto. He was previously the Dworkin-Balzan Fellow at the New York School of Law Center for Law and Philosophy. Prior to that, he was the Global Research Fellow at the New York University School of Law Center for Constitutional Transitions.

Weinrib is excited to continue his research into the intersection of legal philosophy and comparative constitutional law. He is looking to formulate an original theory to unite the dimensions of normative, institutional and doctrinal public law, exploring “the idea that public authority must answer to the demands of human dignity.”

His dissertation will be published in Dimensions of Dignity: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law, soon to be published by Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Constitutional Law Series.  His thesis is “a broad and principled framework for guiding the development of constitutional practice both in Canada and in jurisdictions around the world.”

He has been published in Law and Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Kantian Review, University of Toronto Law Journal, and Queen’s Law Journal.

Beyond an impressive publication record, Weinrib was also awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2013 and the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2010, both from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Returning to Ontario from New York, Weinrib is “particularly excited to be joining a faculty with so much expertise in legal theory and public law and I look forward to future conversations and collaboration…I can’t wait to step into the classroom and think about public law with the enthusiastic and talented students at Queen’s. There is a wonderful energy at Queen’s that I can’t wait to be a part of.”

Weinrib will be teaching two courses in the 2015-16 academic year: Constitutional Law and Administrative Law.