Raphaël Grenier-Benoit

DPhil candidate in constitutional theory @BalliolOxford | @fdnPETF Scholar | @SSHRC_CRSH Doctoral Fellow | Research Fellow @GUConstitution | 🇨🇦🌍

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#Breaking: Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court justice and UN war crimes prosecutor, will serve as Canada’s 31st governor general, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced. https://t.co/ReD1443aue

[nature @Nature]

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and quantum communications

https://t.co/ZIsjGpAfIQ

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

Devolution has gone too far

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

In a surprise move for a local authority, the Greater Lincolnshire Mayor can’t rule out UK boots on the ground in Iran.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

EXCLUSIVE: The EU and a 12-nation Indo-Pacific bloc are opening talks to explore forming one of the largest global economic alliances, multiple people with knowledge of the talks told POLITICO.

Canada's Mark Carney is spearheading the discussions.

🔗 https://t.co/govYQA0m9Y

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Thankfully, a world leader--of our closest friend and neighbor, Canada--is finally standing up to Trump. This is a historically important speech by Mark Carney, not only for Canada but for the United States and the world. Our friends and allies must stop indulging, enabling, and submitting to America's madman president. Only forthright resistance and tough love will get us out of our downward spiral.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Our war heroes recognized that Canada is good https://t.co/7L32itlyWq

[Constitution Center @GUConstitution]

Our Research Fellows Conference is now in session. Throughout the day, selected Fellows are sharing works in progress — from book proposals to law review articles — and receiving in-depth feedback from leading scholars in the field.

We’re gratified to see such vibrant discussions and to watch the next generation of constitutional thinkers refine their ideas in collaboration with senior experts.

@BottiniEleonora @RickPildes @RGrenierBenoit @lsolum @LaelWeinberger @mark_storslee @AnnikaBarkdull @charlesfcapps @tylerblindley
@RandyEBarnett @shbarclay

[Stephanie Hall Barclay @shbarclay]

Really looking forward to this Research Fellows conference tomorrow that our Georgetown Center for the Constitution is hosting. I get to catch up with some of my favorite scholars, and I'm looking forward to lots of engaging discussions.

Very grateful to our exceptional research fellows for participating, to our top-notch senior scholars for being willing to come and share their wisdom, and to my colleagues and friends, @RandyEBarnett and @lsolum, for their tremendous support of this program.

@GUConstitution @BottiniEleonora @RickPildes @RGrenierBenoit @LaelWeinberger @mark_storslee @AnnikaBarkdull @charlesfcapps @tylerblindley @shbarclay @asmauddinesq

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

Thrilled to be back in DC to present my paper 'Adjudication and the Justification of Constitutional Authority'! An immense thank you to everyone at @GUConstitution, and to @lsolum for kindly agreeing to comment on my work. Looking forward to tomorrow!

[Constitution Center @GUConstitution]

Launched in 2024 by Faculty Co-Director Professor Stephanie Barclay, our Center’s Research Fellows Program supports early-career academics to advance their work towards publication with feedback from senior scholars and a robust scholarly network.

This Friday, 6 of our 28 Research Fellows will present in-progress scholarship and receive dedicated commentary from leading experts:

At the Heart of Power: Supreme Courts as Guardians of the Right to Vote — Eleonora Bottini with commentary by Richard Pildes

Sentencing at the Founding — Samuel Merchant with commentary by Michael Klarman

Adjudication and the Justification of Constitutional Authority — Raphael Grenier-Benoit with commentary by Lawrence Solum

Religious Exceptions and the Art of Good Governance — Angela Wu Howard with commentary by Alexander Tsesis

Churches and the Transformation of Corporations as Nonstate Actors — Lael Weinberger with commentary by Kellen Funk

Establishment Clause Interpretation After Kennedy — Gabrielle Girgis with commentary by Mark Storslee

We’re looking forward to a great event and lots of substantive discussions tomorrow.

Link to website announcement: https://t.co/ojU2x2TIte

@BottiniEleonora @RickPildes @RGrenierBenoit @lsolum @LaelWeinberger @mark_storslee @AnnikaBarkdull @charlesfcapps @tylerblindley @RandyEBarnett @shbarclay @asmauddinesq

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

Does Amicus get new robes too?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

they also have a mascot named Amicus

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

The Government has announced where it wants to build its twelve new towns. Here is my review.

Short version: they've done quite a good job.

[Rosalind @rosalindmar19]

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The vicinity of St.Catherines Monastery in the Sinai, one of the world's most sacred places, is being turned into a luxury mega-resort
https://t.co/kDjZUvnd5Y

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey;
without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC

#poetry #cavafy

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'What you have by heart, the bastards cannot touch, they cannot take it from you ... What you don't know by heart, you really haven't loved deeply enough.'

George Steiner on the importance of learning by heart. I've seen this countless times, and it never ceases to move me.

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

@oxon_rambler Han Ru Zhou?

[Stephanie Hall Barclay @shbarclay]

My latest piece, Constructing Constitutional Rights, is now out. Thanks to the @HarvLRev for inviting me to write this response to Jud Campbell's important article, Determining Rights, and for the editors' superb work on multiple drafts. @SSRN link here: https://t.co/CpegJIt59g

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

In one sentence: "If an etiolated conception of the rule of law would be meaningless, an expanded one would dilute its essence"

[Raphaël Grenier-Benoit @RGrenierBenoit]

The evidence I submitted to the @HLConstitution's inquiry into the rule of law is now available online. I explain why I endorse Joseph Raz's conception of the rule of law - and why we should be cautious when it comes to 'thick' accounts of the ideal
https://t.co/vQT3BnNNza