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Zusatztext This book, of twenty-five chapters by thirty authors, is packed with information, insight, argument, and angst. These chapters variously cry grief and despair, call for fundamental reformulation, suggest a less radical range for adaptation and growth, or express sobering cautions even as they echo the last suggestion. Informationen zum Autor Guy Davidov is Vice-Dean and Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied at Tel-Aviv University (LLB) and the University of Toronto (LLM, SJD) and has previously been a faculty member at the University of Haifa, before joining the Hebrew University in 2007. He is co-editor of the Israeli journal Labour, Society and Law, and a member of the executive board of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He has published widely on labour law issues, especially dealing with the normative justifications for different labour regulations.Brian Langille is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has twice served as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), served as Acting Dean in 2003-04, and as Interim Dean in 2005. A native of Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. from Acadia, his LL.B from Dalhousie Law school, and the B.C.L. from Oxford. He taught at Dalhousie Law School prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1983. His numerous publications are concerned with labour law and legal theory. Professor Langille was a member of Canadian delegations to both the Governing Body and the International Labour Conference of the ILO (International Labour Organization), a consultant to the Federal and various provincial governments on domestic and international labour issues, a consultant to the ILO, and a Rapporteur to the OECD, and a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He is an editor of the International Labour Law Reports, and a member of the Labour Law Casebook Group. Klappentext There is growing interest in trying to understand and rethink the goals of labour law in light of changing realities in the labour market and regulation. Responding to such fundamental questions as: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And on what should reforms be based? this book challenges the way we think about labour law. Zusammenfassung There is growing interest in trying to understand and rethink the goals of labour law in light of changing realities in the labour market and regulation. Responding to such fundamental questions as: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And on what should reforms be based? this book challenges the way we think about labour law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? The Idea of Labour Law in Historical Context 1: Harry Arthurs: Labour Law After Labour 2: Bob Hepple: Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe 3: Manfred Weiss: Re-Inventing Labour Law? 4: Ruth Dukes: Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law 5: Adrián Goldin: Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law 6: Alan Hyde: The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable Normative Foundations of the Idea of Labour Law 7: Brian Langille: Labour Law's Theory of Justice 8: Judy Fudge: Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law 9: Hugh Collins: Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law 10: Simon Deakin: The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development Normative Foundations and Legal Ideas: Rethinking Existing Structures 11: Guy Davidov: Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose 12: Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris: The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law 13: Paul Benjamin: Ideas of Labour Law - Views From the South 1...
