Legal Empowerment

On Castles and Commerce: Zoning Law and the Home-Business Dilemma

Discusses how zoning laws can prevent or enable the development of home-based businesses in the United States.

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Introduction: Labor Law and Development-Perspectives on Labor Regulation in Africa and the African DiasporaComparative Labor Law and Policy Journal

Global Wage Report 2012/13 Wages and equitable growth (Executive Summary)

The Global Wage Report 2012/13 addresses wage disparities worldwide and how these have been affected by the economic crisis. The report includes...

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