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Zusatztext The Idea of Labour Law is something too important to be left to lawyers alone; so I hope this edited collection is read by a wide audience in employment relations. Informationen zum Autor Guy Davidov is 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 served as Vice-Dean from 2009 to 2011 and is currently head of the Graduate Programs. He is co-editor of the Israeli journal Labour, Society and Law, and chairs the Steering Committee of the recently founded Labour Law Research Network. 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. 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 has been appointed a Visiting Professor or Fellow at The International Institute for Labour Studies, the European University Institute, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Dalhousie Law School, University Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Nantes, and the University of Melbourne Law School. He has also been a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security and he is an editor of the International Labour Law Reports. 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 - A View From the South 14: Kamala Sankaran: Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law 15: Noah Zatz: The Impossibility of Work Law 16: Catherine Barnard: Using Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards 17: Katherin...
