The Idea of Labour Law

Edited by Guy Davidov, Vice-Dean and Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Brian Langille, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto

Guy Davidov is Vice-Dean and Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied at Tel-Aviv University (LLB) and the University of Toronto (LLM, SJD) and has previously been a faculty member at the University of Haifa, before joining the Hebrew University in 2007. He is co-editor of the Israeli journal Labour, Society and Law, and a member of the executive board of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He has published widely on labour law issues, especially dealing with the normative justifications for different labour regulations.

Brian Langille is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has twice served as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), served as Acting Dean in 2003-04, and as Interim Dean in 2005. A native of Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. from Acadia, his LL.B from Dalhousie Law school, and the B.C.L. from Oxford. He taught at Dalhousie Law School prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1983. His numerous publications are concerned with labour law and legal theory. Professor Langille was a member of Canadian delegations to both the Governing Body and the International Labour Conference of the ILO (International Labour Organization), a consultant to the Federal and various provincial governments on domestic and international labour issues, a consultant to the ILO, and a Rapporteur to the OECD, and a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He is an editor of the International Labour Law Reports, and a member of the Labour Law Casebook Group.<

Contributors: 

Harry Arthurs, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge
Paul Benjamin, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Adelle Blackett, McGill University, Canada
César G. Cantón, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Consuelo Charcartegui, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Hugh Collins, London School of Economics, UK
Scott L. Cummings, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, USA
Guy Davidov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK
Ruth Dukes, University of Glasgow, UK
Mark Freedland, University of Oxford, UK
Judy Fudge, University of Victoria, Canada
Adrián Goldin, University of San Andrés, Argentina
Bob Hepple, University of Cambridge
John Howe, Melbourne Law School, Australia
Nicola Kountouris, Lecturer in Law at University College London, UK
Alan Hyde, Rutgers University, USA
Brian Langille, University of Toronto, Canada
Gillian Lester, University of California Berkeley, USA
Julia López, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Michael Piore, Department of Economics, MIT, USA
Kamala Sankaran, University of Delhi, India
Silvana Sciarra, University of Florence, Italy
Katherine Stone, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Leah Vosko, School of Social Sciences, York University, Canada
Manfred Weiss, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Noah Zatz, University of California Los Angeles, USA