Paul C. Weiler

Weiler was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He completed a bachelor and master of Arts at the University of Toronto in 1960 and 1961, before completing an LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1964 and an LL.M. at Harvard Law School in 1965. In 1973 he was a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School, called upon by the British Columbia government to assist in drafting legislation which brought their Labour Relations Board into existence.Alan R.F.J. Artibise, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180415002504/http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/1138/1182 '"A Worthy, if Unlikely Enterprise:" The Labour Relations Board and the Evolution of Labour Policy and Practice in British Columbia, 1973-1980'], BC Studies, Number 56, Winter 1982-3, p.10 Then, he "was chairman of the British Columbia Labour Relations Board from 1973 to 1978."Alan R.F.J. Artibise, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180415002504/http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/1138/1182 '"A Worthy, if Unlikely Enterprise:" The Labour Relations Board and the Evolution of Labour Policy and Practice in British Columbia, 1973-1980'], BC Studies, Number 56, Winter 1982-3, p.10, Footnote He subsequently became the MacKenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University in 1978Alan R.F.J. Artibise, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180415002504/http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/1138/1182 '"A Worthy, if Unlikely Enterprise:" The Labour Relations Board and the Evolution of Labour Policy and Practice in British Columbia, 1973-1980'], BC Studies, Number 56, Winter 1982-3, p.10, Footnote and the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law from 1993, until taking an Emeritus position in 2008.

Weiler had an influence on the formation of the 1982 Canadian constitution. An article Weiler wrote in 1980 for the Dalhousie Law Journal recommended inserting a non obstante (or notwithstanding) clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.{{cite web |last1=Mickleburgh |first1=Rod |title=Paul Weiler, influential Canadian-born Harvard law professor, dies at 82 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-paul-weiler-influential-canadian-born-harvard-law-professor-dies-at-82/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=9 Aug 2022 |date=26 July 2021 |quote=none of the remarkably eclectic accomplishments he chalked up had quite the impact of his advocacy of a notwithstanding clause in a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.}}Paul Weiler, [http://www.lancasterhouse.com/conferences/toronto/lb/paul_weiler2005.asp "Acceptance speech of the Bora Laskin Award..."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928114044/http://www.lancasterhouse.com/conferences/toronto/lb/paul_weiler2005.asp |date=28 September 2011 }}, Lancaster House Labour Law On-line (website), 5 May 2005, accessed 2 April 2011 This would allow an individual province to pass a law in violation of some charter provisions. This concept was shared with Jim Matkin, British Columbia deputy minister of inter governmental affairs, who shared this with other provinces in a no-author text during interprovincial negotiations toward constitutional change in Canada.Bob Plecas, Bill Bennett, A Mandarin's View, p. 161 During the Kitchen Accord this concept reappeared and became one of the compromises that led to a patriated Canadian constitution.

;Articles

• 'Promises To Keep: Securing Workers' Rights to Self-Organization Under the NLRA' (1983) [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1340809 96(8) Harvard Law Review 1770]

;Books

• Entertainment, Media and the Law (West 3rd ed. 2006)
• Sports and the Law (West 3rd ed. 2004) (with G Roberts)
• Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans (Harvard University Press 2000)
• "Reconcilable Differences: New Directions in Canadian Labour Law" (Carswell 1980)

• US labor law
• US tort law
• Canadian labour law

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• [http://paul-weiler.blogspot.com/ Prof Weiler's blogspot]
• [http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=84 Prof Weiler's homepage at Harvard Law]

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