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Books
Atleson, Compa, Rittich, Sharpe and Weiss, Cases and Materials on International Labor Law: Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy (ThomsonWest Publishing, 2008)
Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (with Joanne Conaghan, Oxford University Press, 2005)
Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002).
Encyclopedia Entries
“Law and Development Movement”, The New Oxford Companion to Law, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Human Rights and Development”, The New Oxford Companion to Law, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Book chapters
"Representing, Counting, Valuing: Managing Definitional Uncertainty in the Law of Trafficking", P. Kotiswaran, ed., Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Trafficking, (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2017)
"Formality and Informality in the Law of Work", S. Archer, D. Drache and P. Zumbansen, eds., The Daunting Enterprise of Law: Essays in Honour of Harry W Arthurs, (Montreal and Kingston: MeGill-Queen's University Press, 2017)
"Theorizing International Law and Development", F. Hoffman and A. Orford, Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (OUP, 2016)
"Out in the World: Multilevel Governance for Gender Equality", Ashleigh Barnes, ed., Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations (OUP, 2015)
(with Guy Mundlak) "The Challenge to comparative labor law in a globalized era", M. Finkin and G. Mundlak, eds., Comparative Labor Law (Cheltenham UK: Elgar, 2015)
"The Right to Work and Labour Market Flexibility: Labour Market Governance Norms in the International Order", V. Mantouvalou, ed., The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart, 2015)
"Governing by Measuring: The Millenium Development Goals in Global
Governance", Ruth Buchanan and Peer Zumbansen, eds., Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart, 2014)
"Fragmented Work and Multi-Level Labour Market Governance: Informality, Crisis Policy and an Expanded 'Law of Work'," G. de Burca, C. Kilpatrick and J. Scott, Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance (Hart 2014).
"Governing by Measuring: The Millenium Development Goals in Global Governance", Helene Ruiz, Rudiger Wolfrum and Jana Gogolin, eds., Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, Vol. II, 2008 (Hart Publishing, 2010).
"The Evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania: Structural Constrains and Alternative Pathways in the Struggle over Land", Lucie White and Jeremy Perelman, eds., Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty, 91 (Stanford University Press, 2010) (with Ruth Buchanan and Helen Kijo-Bisimba).
"Social Rights and Social Policy", Daphne Barak-Erez and Aeyal Gross, ed., Exploring Social Rights: Between Theory and Practice (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart, 2007).
"The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social", David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos eds., The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 203. (download paper)
"Rights, Risk and Reward: Governance Norms in the International Order and the Problem of Precarious Work", Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens, eds., Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2006), 31.
"The Properties of Gender Equality", Philip Alston and Mary Robinson, eds., Human Rights and Development: Toward Mutual Reinforcement (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Equity or Efficiency: International Institutions and the Work/Family Nexus", Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich eds., Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Core Labour Rights and Labour Market Flexibility: Two Paths Entwined?", Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, Labor Law Beyond Borders: ADR and the Internationalization of Labor Dispute Resolution, (Kluwer Law International, 2003) (download paper)
"Feminization and Contingency: Regulating the stakes of work for women", Joanne Conaghan, Richard M. Fischl and Karl Klare, eds., Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2002)
"Distributive Justice and the World Bank: The Pursuit of Gender Equity in the Context of Market Reform", Veijo Heiskanen and Jean-Marc Coicaud, eds., The Legitimacy of International Organizations, (United Nations University Press, 2001)
"Feminism After the State: The Rise of the Market and the Future of Women's Rights", Isfahan Merali and Valerie Oosterveld, eds., Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
Law Review Articles
"Making Natural Markets: Flexibility as labour market truth", Symposium: Economic Sociology of Law, 65 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 323 (2014)
"Criticla Directions in Comparative Family Law: Genealogies and Contemporary Studies of Family Law Exceptionalism", (Introduction to the Special Issue on Comparative Family Law) (with Janet Halley) 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 753 (2010). (download paper)
"Black Sites: Locating the Family and Family Law in Development", 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 1023 (2010). (download paper)
"Families on the Edge: Governing Home and Work in a Globalized Economy", 88 North Carolina Law Review 101 (2010).
"Between Workers' Rights and Flexibility: Labor Law in an Uncertain World", 54 St. Louis University Law Review 567 (2010)
"Transnationalizing the Values of American Labor Law", 57 Buffalo Law Review 803 (2009)
"Global Labour Policy as Global Social Policy", 14:2 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 227 (2008) (download paper)
"A View from the Left: International Economic Law", 31 NYU Review of Law and Social Change 671 (2007)
"Functionalism and Formalism: Their Latest Incarnations in Contemporary Development and Governance Debates", (2005) 55 University of Toronto Law Journal 853
"The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social", 26 Michigan Journal of International Law 199 (2004)
"Engendering Development/Marketing Equality", 67 Albany Law Review 101 (2003)
"Enchantments of Law/Coercions of Reason", 57 Miami Law Review 727 (2003)
"Economies of Desire/Desires of Economies: Remaking Women for the New World of Markets", Hague Yearbook of International Law 75 (2000)
"Who's Afraid of the Critique of Adjudication? Tracing the Discourse of Law in Development", symposium issue on Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication (fin de siecle), 22 Cardozo Law Review 2-3, (2000) (download paper)
"Transformed Pursuits: The Quest for Equality in Globalized Markets", 13 Harvard Human Rights Journal 231 (2000) (download paper)
Commissioned Reports
(with David Kennedy and Arnulf Becker Lorca) White Paper: Toward A Comprehensive Financial Inclusion Policy, Commissioned by Visa Inc., September 2013.
Vulnerability at Work: Legal and Policy Issues in the New Economy, (Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 2004)
Reviews and review essays
"The ILO: Challenges in Times of Crisis", Book Review Symposium: The Future of the International labour Organization in the Global Economy, by Francis Maupain, 154 International Labour Review 85 (2015)
Book Review, The Boundaries of International Law: A feminist analysis, Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin (14 Leiden Journal of International Law 935 (2001)
Review Essay: Marilyn Waring, Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work and Human Rights, (1999) 24 Queen's Law Journal 675
Book Review, R. St. J. Walker, "Race", Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (The University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 68:1 (Winter 1998/99)
Book Review; Martha Minow, Making All the Difference: Inclusion and Exclusion in American Law (1991), 30 Alberta Law Review 1044 (1992)
Conference Proceedings
Remarks, Forum: "Is Legal Empowerment Good for the Poor?", American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting, International Law as Law (ASIL, 2010)
Comment: “Democracy, Gender and Governance”, American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting, The Future of International Law (Washington, D.C.: ASIL, 2007), 383
“The State of Law and Development: Challenges after the Second Generation Reforms”, American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 100th Annual Meeting, A Just World Under Law (Washington, D.C.: ASIL, 2006), 427.
“Issues of Women’s Poverty, Economic Justice and Development since Beijing”, American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting, International Law in Ferment: A New Vision for Theory and Practice, (Washington D.C.: ASIL, 2000), 288.
“The Gender of International Law”, American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting, On Violence, Money, Power and Culture: Reviewing the Internationalist Legacy, (Washington, D.C.: ASIL, 2000), 206.
Theses
“Recharacterizing Restructuring: Gender and Distribution in the Legal Structure of Market Reform”, S.J.D. dissertation, Harvard Law School, 1998, on file, Harvard Law School library
"Identity, Imagination and Restructuring: New Elements in the Stream of Human Rights for Women", LL.M thesis, 1994, manuscript on file in the Harvard Law School Library
Popular Articles
"Why Transnational Legal Education", Georgetown School of Law News, 2009.
(with Joanne Conaghan) "Labour Law, Work and Family", Nexus, Spring/Summer 2006, 25.
"Development Old and New", Nexus, "Law and the Developing World", Spring/Summer, 2003, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
"Law and Social Justice", UNESCO Courier, vol. 52, no. 11, November, 1999, p. 36.
Reviews of Work
Claire Kilpatrick, Review: Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich (eds.) Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, 45 British Journal of Industrial Relations 644-645 (2007)
Diamond Ashiagbor, Review: Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich (eds.) Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, 15 Feminist Legal Studies 121-123 (2007)
Judy Fudge, Review: Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform, 15 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 428 (2003)
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