Do corporations increase inequality? Rising inequality of income and wealth has recently been linked to corporate governance, but closer analysis is still developing. This article provides a conceptual grammar to understand the problem. Which ‘significantly distributive rules' affect the...

The likelihood of appealing against the decision of a court of first instance is no doubt an acceptable culture in every judicial system. In fact, it is implicit in every adjudicatory process that a court cannot mostly be a court of first approach as well as that of last resort. Right of appeal...

This paper examines the extent to which firms in selected MENA countries reported being constrained by the business environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance. The results suggest that small firms in MENA faced...

Since the decision of the House of Lords in Malik v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in liq), Australian courts have been grappling with claims from employees that an employer has breached a duty not to destroy ‘mutual trust and confidence' in the employment relationship. Rarely...

This paper critically reviews the way in which English judicial decisions have developed the labour law concept of ‘mutuality of obligations'. The paper suggests that the primary purpose of this concept, as originally developed by Mark Freedland, was intended to be that of bringing to the fore...

Although Canada and the US have both adopted labor relations legal frameworks based on the Wagner model, labor relations has played out very differently in the two countries. This is particularly evident in the countries' divergent trajectories of changing union density. In recent decades the US...

Labour laws are designed in part to provide workers with adequate minimum labour standards, including access to collective voice and representation in establishing working conditions. They generally focus on ‘employees' but an increasing number of workers are not employees. As Judy Fudge has...

The process used to select the hosts of the Olympic Games is under increased scrutiny due to the withdrawal of many cities from the 2022 Winter Olympic Games host selection process, and the selection of hosts with questionable human rights records. Scholarship, particularly legal scholarship,...

In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to welcome a future opportunity to reconsider the 1977 landmark Abood decision in which public sector closed shop employees were not required to join a union but could be subject to fees that cover...