Legal Empowerment

Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor: Progress Report

Progress report on WIEGO grant activities concerning law and the working poor in Thailand for the second half of 2012

Localizing Global Rules: Public Participation in Lawmaking in Vietnam

As the pace of legal harmonization in developing East Asian states increases to comply with international trading treaties, a disjunction...

The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Beyond Standard Setting: A Study of ILO Technical Cooperation on Regional Labor Law Reform in West and Central AfricaComparative Labor Law and Policy Journal

Informal Employment and Challenges for Labour Law

From the book, The Idea of Labour Law. The book articulates a new way of conceptualizing labor law and its future by some of the world’s...

Human Rights for Precarious Workers: The Legislative Precariousness of Domestic Labor

Varieties of Legal Dualism: Making Sense of the Role of Law in Contemporary Russia

Explores dual (formal/informal) systems of political use of the courts and informal social/business networks in Russia.

Law and Globalization from Below

Analyzes the role of law in the global social justice movement, with case studies from scholars from the Global North and Global South.

Ratification as International Solidarity – Reflections on Switzerland and Decent Work for Domestic WorkersConnecticut Journal of International Law

Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...