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Past Events
The Douglas Cunningham Visitorship in Labour and Employment Law Webinar with Lynn Stout:
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The Unintended Consequences of Pay for Performance
On Monday, March 5th, the Centre hosted the Douglas Cunningham Visitorship in Labour and Employment Law webinar with Lynn Stout, Paul Hastings Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Securities Law, UCLA School of Law. Her webinar titled The Unintended Consequences of Pay for Performance can be viewed in the link provided below.
View the Webinar: https://qshare.queensu.ca/Groups/law/www/clcwStout.html |
Professor Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Professor Stout is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of corporate governance, securities regulation, financial derivatives, law and economics, and moral behavior. She is the author of numerous articles and books on these topics and lectures widely. Her most recent book is Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People (Princeton University Press, 2011).
The Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law Webinar with Wanjiru Njoya:
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On Friday, November 25th, the Centre hosted the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP distinguished Lecture in Business Law webinar with Wanjiru Njoya, Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics. Her webinar titled Workers on the Board of Director: Prospects for Codetermination in European Law can be viewed in the link provided below.
View the Webinar: https://qshare.queensu.ca/Groups/law/www/osler2011Njoya.html |
Wanjiru Njoya is a Lecturer in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. She is also a Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University. Dr. Njoya was previously CUF Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. Before that, she was a tutorial fellow at St John's College, Oxford and a university lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Dr. Njoya obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge (St Edmund's College). Her main research interest is in employee participation in corporate governance, on which she has published a number of articles in various journals and the book Property in Work: The Employment Relationship in the Anglo-American Firm (Ashgate, 2007). Dr. Njoya teaches Company Law, Administrative Law and Constitutional Law.
Workshop on Transnational Law:
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On Friday, October 28th and Saturday, October 29th, 2011, the CLCW hosted a Workshop titled "Freedom of Association in Private Transnational Law: How Enforceable are the Commitments of European companies in North America?" This workshop, organized by the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace in partnership with the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy at the University of Illinois, was designed to explore the enforceability of non-contractual instruments, such as corporate codes of conduct and international framework agreements between firms and international labour federations, as tools for protecting worker freedom of association. Participants who were included were scholars and practitioners from Canada, the United States and Europe as well as Canadian doctoral students, who consider the enforceabilty and efficacy of these tools from an interdisciplinary perspective. |
Douglas Cunningham Visitor in Labour and Employment Law Webinar with Alan Hyde:
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On Monday, October 31st, the Centre hosted the Douglas Cunningham Visitor in Labour and Employment Law Webinar which featured Alan Hyde, Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar.
His webinar titled Intellectual Property Justifications for Restricting Employee Mobility: A Critical Appraisal in Light of the Economic Evidence can be viewed in the link provided below. In this talk he advances a provocative critique of the justifications for enforcing non-compete clauses in employment contracts, a growing area of concern in today's knowledge-based economy. The time has come, he argues, for the law to refuse to enforce restrictive covenants, and to restrict employer claims that departing employees will disclose trade secrets.
View the Webinar: https://qshare.queensu.ca/Groups/law/www/clcw2.html |
Read the full text of Professor Hyde's paper at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1630536
Professor Hyde is internationally recognized as a leading theorist and analyst of a wide range of labour and employment law issues ranging from the fundamental conceptual foundations of the discipline to the unique features of regulating high-velocity labour markets in Silicon Valley.
Professor Hyde earned his A.B. from Stanford and his J.D. from Yale. Before coming to Rutgers, he was an instructor at New York University School of Law and represented the National Labor Relations Board in federal courts of appeals. He has been a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Cardozo, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto law schools.
His current research projects include bargaining structures for low-wage service workers, game theory analysis of transnational labor standards, and the design of a North American free labor market. He is a director of the Association for Union Democracy, and frequently writes briefs in labor and employment cases on behalf of the Association and other employee rights organizations.
Fraser Workshop:
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On Monday, June 13, 2011, the CLCW hosted a Workshop on the Implications of the Fraser Case. Leading academics and practitioners discussed the immediate and longer-term implications of the important recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada In Ontario (Attorney General) v. Fraser, 2011 SCC 20. Union and Management Lawyers squared off on what the Justices were saying and what the decision means for the understanding of the Freedom of Association under the Charter in the future. The Workshop hosted all speakers at Queen's Law in Macdonald Hall and also presented live via videoconference at four offices of Gowlings LLP across Canada. The offices included Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
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Please find attached a list of our distinguished speakers.
Presentations from the workshop are now available.
Lisa Kelly: Relevance, Judicial Disconnect and Implications for the Right to Strike
Paul Cavalluzzo: The Fog of Judicial Deference
Richard Chaykowski: Implications of Fraser for Industrial Relations Policy and the Wagner Model
Steven Barrett: Summary of the SCC Decision and Reasons in Fraser
The Canadian Lawyer Magazine: SCC 'ambivalent' on debate over labour rights as human rights
To purchase the DVD of this workshop, e-mail Natalie Moniz-Henne at natalie.henne@queensu.ca.
Workshop on Labour Arbitration as Access to Justice:
This program was accredited by the Law Society for 1 hour toward the annual Professionalism Requirement and for 4 hours toward the annual New Member Requirement.
- Canadian HR Reporter TV: Grievance arbitration: Current standards and how it can improve
- The Financial Post: Ontario's Chief Justice Warns Arbitrators to Pick Up Pace of Cases - May 2, 2011
- The Canadian Lawyer Magazine: Labour Arbitration Gone "Off Trajectory": Ontario Chief Justice
To purchase the DVD of this workshop, e-mail Natalie Moniz-Henne at natalie.henne@queensu.ca.
Centre Launch:
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November 5, 2010: CLCW Director, Co-Chairs and staff together with students and Queen's faculty attended to celebrate the Centre's formal launch at Queen's Law Faculty.
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Visiting Speakers:
Professor Ronald C. McCallum
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On Friday, November 5th, 2010, the Centre hosted a lecture by Professor Ronald C. McCallum, AO Chair, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Industrial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney. Professor McCallum discussed the U.N. Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and shared his experiences on the U.N. Committee. |
Chief Justice of Ontario Warren Winkler
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(l-r): Richard Chaykowski, Chief Justice Warren Winkler, Kevin Banks, Bernard Adell |
On Tuesday, November 30th, 2010, Faculty and students attended a CLCW-hosted discussion with the Honorary Chair of the CLCW, Chief Justice of Ontario Warren Winkler. Chief Justice Winkler is Queen's 2010 Don Wood Lecturer in Industrial Relations. |
