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Introductory Remarks by Adelle Blackett

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Adelle Blackett*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law, McGill University

Abstract

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Type
The Future of International Labor Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

1 José Alvarez & David Lachman, International Law: 50 Ways it Harms Our Lives (2007), available at <http://www.ASIL.org/ilpost/president/50_ways.pdf>.

2 Id. at para. 5 (“Undermining your government’s efforts to protect your rights as a worker.”).

3 Id. at para. 46 (“Promoting free trade at the expense of fair trade.”).

4 See Aase Lionaes, Presentation Speech, Nobel Peace Prize 1969, available at <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_arizes/peace/laureates/1969/press.html>.

5 The state of crisis of social protection centered around the worker is the subject of leading discussion in labor law in developed countries, and is epitomized by a report commissioned by the European Union and published in English as Alain Supiot, Beyond Employment: Changes in Work and the Future of Labour Law in Europe (2001).

6 It should be noted, however, that the examples provided in 50 Ways focus on the minimum wage and price dumping. For a discussion of the implications of this focus, see Blackett, Adelle, Whither Social Clause: Human Rights, Trade Theory and Treaty Interpretation, 31 Colum. Hm. Rts. L. Rev. 1, 11-56 (1999)Google Scholar.

7 U.S. Department of State, Pub. No. 3117, Commercial Policy Series 113, Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization, Art. 7, at 7 (1948).

8 For a discussion, see Yong-Shik Lee, Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System (2006) 134-^10. See also Moving People to Deliver Services (Aaditya Matteo & Antonia Carzaniga eds., 2003).

9 See Maupain, Francis, Persuasion et contrainte aux fins de la mise en oeuvre des normes et objectifs de І’ОҐГ, in Les Normes Internationales Du Travail: UN Patrimoine Pour L’Avenir : Melanges En L’Honneur De Nicolas Valticos 687 (Javillier, Jean-Claude & Gernigon, Bemard eds., 2004)Google Scholar.

10 Si vas pacem cole justitiam, inscription on the founding stone of the ILO’s first building, which now houses the WTO.