Brian Langille

Professor

Flavelle House
Room 417
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

Tel.: 416-978-4907
Email: brian.langille@utoronto.ca

Curriculum Vitae
Research interests
Charter of Rights
Contracts
International Human Rights Law
Labour Law
Law and Globalization
Legal Theory

Courses

Publications

All Publications
See also Professor Langille's SSRN page.

A native of Nova, Scotia Professor Langille joined the faculty at Dalhousie Law School in 1978 and moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1983, becoming Full Professor in 1989. He is the former Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (1999-2002) and former Acting (2003-04) and Interim Dean (2005) of the Law Faculty. He was Director of the Law Faculty’s Legal Theory Workshop from 1986-1999. Professor Langille has lectured in many parts of the world on matters of globalization and social justice and also acted as advisor on constitutional and international labour law to the governments of several Canadian provinces, the Canadian Federal Government (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Human Resources and Social Development Canada), and international labour law to the North American Commission on Labour Cooperation, the International Labour Organization, and the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization.  He has been a member of several Canadian government delegations to the ILO, acted as a Rapporteur for the OECD, is an Editor of the International Labour Law Reports, a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Labour Review, and was a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law from 1996 to 2006. Professor Langille completed a nine year term as a Governor of the University of Toronto in 2003.  He is also an experienced labour arbitrator.

Education
B.A. (Philosophy) - Acadia (1972)
LL.B. - Dalhousie (1975)
B.C.L. - Oxford (1977)
Academic appointments
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Nantes, France (Jan-Jun 2012)
Innis Christie Visiting Professor in Labour and Employment Law, Dalhousie University (Nov 2011)
Professor, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London (Autumn 2010)
Visiting Professor, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Dec 2010)
Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (Autumn 2006)
Cross Appointment to the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (2006)
Visiting Scholar, International Institute for Labour Studies (ILO), Geneva (2004-2005)
Program for the Study of International Institutions Fellow, Graduate Institute for International Studies, University of Geneva (2004-2005)
Cross Appointment to the Graduate Faculty, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto (1998)
Cross Appointment to the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto (1983)
Other service
Member, Board of Advisors, International Labour Review (2007- )
Canadian Reporter, International Labour Law Reports (ILLR) (1996- )
Member, Labour Law Casebook Group (Canada) (1980- )
Member, Labour Law Trust (U.S.) (1989- )
Executive Committee, International Association for Labour and Social Security Law (1996- 2007)
Selected Publications

The Idea of Labour Law, (Davidov and Langille, eds.) Oxford University Press, 2011.

Is There a Constitutional Right to Strike in Canada? (Langille, ed) Special Symposium Issue of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal (2010).

“Imagining Post Geneva Consensus Labour Law for Post Washington Consensus Development” (2010), 31 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 523-552.

The Freedom of Association Mess: How we got into it and how we can get out of it.” (2009), 54 McGill Law Journal 177-215.

“What is International Labour Law For?” (2009), 3 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 47-82.