Wednesday, October 21, 2009

For the Joint Session on imbalance btw Social and Economic Constitution

This article may be of some interests

Dukes, R., 2008, "Constitutionalizing Employment Relations: Sinzheimer, Kahn-Freund and the Role of Labour Law", Journal of Law and Society, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 341-363. to download here.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Countries with the Biggest Gaps Between Rich and Poor

Following the discussion we had this morning in the seminar, Business Week displays some elements that may be of some interests.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Social rights and Enlargement: the case of states in transition


The session will focus on the role of social rights in countries in political, social and economic transition.


Compulsory readings :


AM Swiatkowski, 'European Union Citizenship and the Rights of Access for Welfare State: a Comparison with Welfare Rights guaranteed by the Council of Europe as seen from the Perspective of a New Member State' in UB Neergaard, R Nielsen and LM Roseberry (eds), Integrating welfare functions into EU law : from Rome to Lisbon (DJØF Pub., Copenhagen 2009)


S Liebenberg, 'South Africa : Adjudicating Social Rights under a Transformative Constitution' in M Langford (ed) Social rights jurisprudence : emerging trends in international and comparative law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York 2008)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Might be of some interest after Demir

The European Court of Human Rights has pushed forward its interpretation of art. 11 since it has recognized that not only does it encompass the right to collective bargaining (Demir) but it also includes the right to strike (Enerji).
The link to the latter is here.

Sadly, the case is only in French yet.

Franck

Elements of Theory II

Dears Friends,

Here are a few links :

http://www.law.uiuc.edu/publications/cll&pj/archive/vol_29/issue_1/FudgeArticle29-1.pdf

The article of Judy Fudge 'The New Discourse of Labor Rights: From Social to Fundamental Rights?'

And a case of the ECJ on the distinction between individual and collective rights

Case C-12/08 Mono Car Styling [2009] ECR I‑0000

And the link to the Demir case :

http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=demir&sessionid=31285259&skin=hudoc-en

Ph.