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LPE Collective Workshop at ��ɫֱ��: Between Authoritarianism and Freedom

LLDRL — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:01:08 +0000

On Tuesday July 8 2025 (3PM), scholars of political economy will gather in Montreal just prior to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference. In the spirit of fostering community and generating interdisciplinary discussion, the LPE Collective invites scholars to network, share their research, and receive feedback over an afternoon workshop to be held at ��ɫֱ��’s Faculty of Law.

Workshop leaders will include Leanna Katz, Eric George, and Martha McCluskey.

May 16, 2025: 5th Anniversary of the #Democratizing Work Manifesto

LLDRL — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:31:54 +0000

Five years ago, in the midst of the global pandemic, thousands of us came together to recognize workers’ existential investment in their work.

Critical Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Slavery: On the Presence of the Past

LLDRL — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:38:10 +0000

The Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL) is proud to announce the publication of Critical Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Slavery: On the Presence of the Past (Brill, 2025), a ground-breaking edited volume that brings critical, historical, comparative, and transnational perspectives to bear on the law of contemporary forms of slavery.

A Transformative Framework to Achieve and Sustain Employment Equity - Report of the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force

Professor Adelle Blackett, FRSC, Ad E, Task Force Chair — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:27:36 +0000

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Ottawa backs listing Black and LGBTQ workers under Canada's workplace equity laws

LLDRL — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:24:31 +0000

The federal government says it supports listing Black and LGBTQ people among groups facing systemic workplace barriers under the Employment Equity Act, CBC News has learned.

The Liberal government is backing the legislative change after a task force report recommended the move.

A source told CBC News earlier on Monday that Ottawa "broadly supports" that recommendation and others from a task force that reviewed the legislation. The government made an initial commitment Monday to modernize the act, the source said.

The LLDRL in the classroom: Property and Slavery: Citing Slavery Project, with Professor Justin Simard

aminata.mboup@mcgill.ca — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:57:52 +0000

1 December 2022

Feminist Africa, Volume 3, Issue 1 has been published

LLRDL — Sun, 22 May 2022 23:43:50 +0000

We are excited to announce that Feminist Africa (April), Volume 3, Issue 1 has been published!

Professor Adelle Blackett to chair Employment Equity Act Review Task Force

LLDRL — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:08:06 +0000

On 14 July 2021, Professor Adelle Blackett, Ad. E., F.R.S.C., BCL'94, LLB'94, was appointed chair of Canada’s new Employment Equity Act Review Task Force by Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi.

The task force will study, consult, and advise the Minister of Labour on the ways in which the federal Employment Equity Act, initially adopted in 1986, can be modernized. It will also help ensure that Canada’s economic recovery from the pandemic is equitable and inclusive.

Call for papers on ‘Racialisation and Racism: Pillars or Perversions of the Law?’

LLDRL — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:23:00 +0000

Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Barbados - Call for papers for The Caribbean Law Review, Volume 20: Issue 1 (2022) Theme: ‘Racialisation and Racism: Pillars or Perversions of the Law?’ 1. Concept

Call for papers from the International Labour Review: COVID-19 and the world of work

LLDRL — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:54:43 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic is deeply affecting the world of work across the globe and has created an unprecedented scenario that raises many questions for labour and employment studies.

In this context, the International Labour Review is calling for the submission of papers related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the world of work with a view to the publication of a special multidisciplinary issue in English, French and Spanish.

Deadline: 30 June 2020

Applications for the ILO's Internship Program now accepted

emily.painter@mail.mcgill.ca — Thu, 02 May 2019 14:11:41 +0000

Applications for the ILO's internship program are now open. Applications should be submitted on the ILO Jobs online platform by May 10th, 2019 (23:59 CET).

"Everyday Transgressions" by Prof. Adelle Blackett is out now

Emily Ann Painter — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:54:41 +0000

Professor Adelle Blackett's book tells the story behind the ILO's Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201. As the principal legal architect, Blackett takes us behind the scenes to show readers how Convention No. 189 transgresses the everyday law of the household workplace to embrace domestic worker's human rights claim to be workers like any other - and like no other.

The Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law is accepting applications

Emily Ann Painter — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:55:22 +0000

Duke University Law School is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law to be held in June and July 2019.

Call for Participants - Continuing the Struggle: The ILO Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights

emily.painter@mail.mcgill.ca — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:21:16 +0000

Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor invites you to submit papers, presentations, or panel proposals by February 1st 2019.

Transnational Futures of International Labour Law to start on January 10, 2019

lysanne.larose@mcgill.ca — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:18:06 +0000

To mark the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Professor Adelle Blackett is bringing a new course to ��ɫֱ��’s Faculty of Law entitled Transnational Futures of International Labour Law. We share the program and more information.