Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory - LLDRL

02/19/2024

Do come out for this exceptional evening with M. NourbeSe Philip, reading and discussing her hauntingly essential work, Zong! - Reception to follow. Please RSVP at

Abstract Organised by the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory and as part of the Slavery and the Law course, join us for a special reading and discussion of the work of legal poetry Zong! with acclaimed poet, writer, and lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip. Zong! is a book length poem composed enti...

01/25/2024

EVENT: 26 January 2024 - Enabling Workers to Govern their Work, Isabelle Ferreras (moderator), Antoine Bonnemain, Denise Kasparian, and Michelle Miller
Event Description

While some proposals for democratizing work focus on representative forms of democracy, e.g., board members elected by employees, others focus on the direct involvement of workers on the ground. Skeptics often hold, however, that this is only feasible - if at all - for highly skilled employees. But is this really so, or is it a prejudice based on misguided ideas about meritocracy? What does it take to enable workers to truly participate in the governance of their own work? What frictions must be expected, and how can they be overcome? And what role can other actors (activists, unionists, researchers, etc.) play in enabling work governance by workers? https://wageindicator.org/about/events/2024/webinar-enabling-workers-to-govern-their-work

Register here: https://wageindicator.org/about/events/2024/webinar-enabling-workers-to-govern-their-work

Webinar: Enabling Workers to Govern Their Work https://wageindicator.org/about/events/2024/webinar-enabling-workers-to-govern-their-work https://wageindicator.org/@-logo/wageindicator-orbs-blue.svg Register on Eventbrite Event summary While some proposals for democratizing work focus on represe...

07/02/2023

TORONTO, June 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a historic move, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Ministry of the Solicitor General have...

07/07/2022

Congratulations to Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine who has recently been appointed the Principal of the University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago!

Professor Antoine established the International Human Rights Clinic, an innovative legal education model twinning academia with activism and practitioners.

She is currently focused on the injustice meted out to remand prisoners incarcerated for inordinately lengthy periods, including female murder-accused who were victims of domestic violence, under an EU-funded UWI project. Under her leadership, she visited the prisons with students and a historic constitutional motion was filed challenging the constitutionality of the remand phenomenon. Her pro-bono representation includes another landmark case before the Equal Opportunities Tribunal, on mental disability discrimination. Bravo!
https://mcgill.ca/x/34w

05/23/2022

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

African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic

This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity producer, supplying the world with both mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, coltan, manganese as well as bauxite and agricultural exports such as coffee, tea and cocoa. The prices of primary commodities are very volatile (Ocran and Biekpe, 2007) leading to cyclical economic crises on the continent. Since the 1980s as well, the neoliberal project undertaken on the continent with instructions from the international financial institutions has led to state withdrawal from the market and privatisation of social services such as education and health.

This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity producer,...

05/10/2022

Due to technical difficulties the Application Material Workshop has been rescheduled for Monday, May 16, 2022 at 12:30PM. This workshop with go over CVs, Cover Letters, followed by a Q&A period. Please register via 12Twenty.

05/09/2022

“Democratize Work” Global Book Launch

Please join us on May 16 for our global book launch, we will hear from an outstanding panel, reflecting on the diversity of perspectives and actors engaged with Show editorially warning :

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and former President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions

Jayati Ghosh, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, member ofUnited Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, and former Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Nicolás Grau, Minister of Economy, Development and Reconstruction of Chile

Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics-EHESS, France, and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Moderator, Sharon Block, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of theLabor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and former Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for the Biden Administration.

The panel will be followed by a 30 minute-discussion between the audience and us, the 13 authors of the book. This discussion will be chaired by Adelle Blackett of McGill University. We hope to see you then!
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After introducing the book, we will hear from an outstanding panel, reflecting on the diversity of perspectives and actors engaged with  :

03/12/2022

Two years ago, on 29 February 2020, the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory and McGill Faculty of Law had the privilege to co-sponsor Eighty Years after Christie v. York: A Symposium on Racism and the Law with the Center for Research and Action on Race Relations (CRARR) and Union United Church. The following day, 1 March 2020, Mr. Christie’s grandson, Mr. Terry Brazill. You can follow the recording of the symposium:

February 29, 2020

08/04/2021

𝐍𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐬 pour jusqu’à deux postes de professeur.e adjoint.e! Le droit privé fondamental; le règlement des différends, la procédure civile & la déontologie; & le droit pénal sont des domaines prioritaires. Pour postuler: mcgill.ca/x/oFr

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠! We invite applications for up to 2 tenure-track positions. Fundamental private law; dispute resolution, civil procedure, and ethics; and criminal law are priority areas. To apply: mcgill.ca/x/oFD

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07/14/2021

The Faculty congratulates Professor Blackett on this nomination!

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 Emp...