One of the most contentious issues in the debate over trade liberalization concerns whether, and how, labor rights provisions should be incorporated into free trade agreements (FTAs). The predominant approach to crafting these provisions has been what might be termed a State Action-State...

Labor standards with transnational application may be modeled as agreements among developing countries to overcome collective action problems, although this has not previously been done. Specifically, many labor standards arise in Stag Hunt games, in which there is a Pareto-optimal solution if,...

States employ people in a wide range of positions in their embassies and consulates abroad with such persons often performing highly similar tasks to those employed in industry or the local civil service. Yet the UK, almost alone among developed countries, continues to deny such employees the...

The problem of trafficking has received enormous attentions since the late 1990s, driven in particular by the United States initiatives under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and its subsequent reauthorizations in 2003 and 2005 (the TVPA) and the United Nations Protocol to...

Economic and labor rights belong to the core of business action, since they constitute the institutional framework for actors involved in business, employers and workers. Since the European integration is progressing, we may speak of a European environment for business, a common market in...

The authors have understood to make a brief analysis concerning the right to free movement on the territory of the European Union’s member states. The citizenship of the European Union gives every citizen of the Union a fundamental right, under the reserves and conditions stipulated by the...

Présentation des principes de John Ruggie définis dans le cadre des Nations Unies

Das deutsche System der industriellen Beziehungen weist im internationalen Vergleich gemeinhin ein hohes Mass an Verrechtlichung auf. Umso ueberraschender ist der Umstand, dass das Recht und seine Akteure, Institutionen und Verfahren in der Forschung ueber Arbeitsbeziehungen seit Jahrzehnten...

Spaetestens seit den Urteilen des EuGH in den Faellen Laval (C-341/05), Viking (C-438/05), Rueffert (C-346/06) und Kommission gegen Luxemburg (C-319/06) ist deutlich geworden, dass die Rechtsprechung des Gerichtshofes erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die nationalen Systeme industrieller Beziehungen...