Within the gig economy workers are retained for single gigs and not in secure on-going positions. Workers in precarious work are regarded as workers vulnerable to exploitation. Why then does the leading disability human rights convention, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

This paper will address Article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, 2006 (CRPD). International co-operation, as a treaty mandated obligation is one of the path breaking provisions of the CRPD and it does not have an equivalent in any other international human rights...

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

The favored federal policy to address climate change is a domestic cap-and-trade system. However, a vocal minority of political leaders have begun arguing in favor of a carbon tax. Carbon taxes seem particularly attractive both for fiscal reasons and because they provide certainty over the price...