Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law Cases and Materials, Second Edition

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Authors

Roger Blanpain
Susan Bisom-Rapp

Series / Aspen Casebook Series

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Book length

1032 pages

Publication Date

2014-10-30

Edition

Second Edition

Description

The first casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law is characterized by its authorship by prolific, respected scholars, all of whom have taught law outside the United States. A solid conceptual framework compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights, including antidiscrimination law and privacy law, and considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law. A sweeping coverage of international labor law considers the International Labour Organization, NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards, and the European Union. In addition, The Global Workplace explores transnational corporations' self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct,) and the mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts. Comparisons are drawn among the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India. Exploring the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes, and helps them develop a normative approach to labor and employment law. National legal materials are presented within historical and cultural context.

Hallmark features of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law:

First casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law

Authorship

o prolific, respected scholars

o all of the authors have taught law outside the United States

Conceptual framework

o compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights

o including antidiscrimination law and privacy law

o considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law

Broad coverage of international labor law

o International Labour Organization

o NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards

o the European Union

o comparison of the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India

o transnational corporations' self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct)

o mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts

Explores the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship

o allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes

o helps develop a normative approach to labor and employment law

o national legal materials are contextualized with historical and cultural issues

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About the authors

Roger Blanpain

Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven, Belgium

Born in 1932, Roger Blanpain is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium, as well as a visiting professor at INSEAD, and director of the Institute for Industrial Relations at the University of Leuven. Among his numerous responsibilities, he is President of the Belgian Association of Industrial Relations and a member of the executive committee of the International Society of Labour Law and Social Security. A lawyer of international renown, he has been editor of International Corporate Labour Law and the Bulletin for Comparative Labour Law. He has published many texts in a variety of languages and is general editor of The International Encyclopaedia of Laws, published by Aspen Publishing.

Susan Bisom-Rapp

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Professor Bisom-Rapp is an expert on employment discrimination, occupational safety and health, and international and comparative workplace law, who writes and lectures internationally. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007), is the first law school text on the subject. She is presently at work on the second edition, which will be published in 2012.

A member of the Thomas Jefferson faculty since 1996, Professor Bisom-Rapp also serves on the international council of the Doctoral Research School in Labour and Industrial Relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena, Italy. She is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal's editorial board. She recently became a faculty affiliate of the University of California - San Diego's Center for Research on Gender in the Professions and a member of the Employee Rights Center's professional advisory committee.

Professor Bisom-Rapp served as Director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice from 2004-2008, was a Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2003, and has taught law in China and France. As a doctoral student at Columbia University, she was a Wien Fellow and received a dissertation grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Before beginning her academic career, Professor Bisom-Rapp practiced workplace law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City.

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Edition

Second Edition

Publication date

2014-10-30

Pages

1032

Digital Product

9781454822615

Subject

Employment Law , Labor Law , Employment Discrimination

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$345.00

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