In the winter of 2023, Professor Blackett is teaching an advanced Transnational Labour Law seminar, in collaboration with teaching fellow Julia Selman-Ayetey. The seminar centres the corpus of international labour standards emanating primarily from the organization that survived the League of Nations to become a United Nations specialized agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO).
In a focused initiative to foster links with the Institute for Air and Space Law (IASL) and in recognition of the importance of transportation to transnational labour governance, the first half of the course includes dedicated attention to the transnational dimensions of airline labour law.
The topics aim to enable an understanding of transnational labour law and offer the seminar’s participants a thorough overview of transnational labour law’s core sites, including corporate social responsibility for labour conditions, the pluralist legal challenges of labour market informality and the interpretation of labour norms.
The 12-week lecture series reunites experts in the field, from the academia to core institutions. Recordings of selected lectures were made available to the public.
Tuesday, January 10 | 13 – 16 (EST)
Inaugural Class
Welcomes:
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Mr. Gilbert Houngbo, Director-General of the ILO (pre-recorded)
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Professor Ram Jakhu, IASL
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Mr. Michael Gill, Director of the Legal Office, ICAO
Tuesday, January 17 | 13 – 16 (EST)
Overview: the ILO and ICAO
Welcomes:
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Dr. Anne Trebilcock, former Director of the Legal Office, ILO
Overview of the basic framework of international labour law with a focus on international standard setting and supervisory bodies
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Dr. Yaw Nyampong, ICAO & Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University
Overview of the basic framework of air law and the decentralized approach to labour law
Tuesday, January 24 | 13 – 16 (EST)
Cases and Challenges in Transnational Airline Labour Law
Welcomes:
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Professor Pablo Arellano, Labour Law Specialist, ILO
National regulatory challenges and case studies on Aviance (Colombia) and Lan (Chile)
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Ruwan Subasinghe, International Federation of Transport Workers
Tuesday, January 31 | 13 – 16 (EST)
Spotlight on Europe
Welcomes:
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Professor Peter Turnbull
The challenge of low-cost carriers in airline labour law
Tuesday, February 7 | 13 – 16 (EST)
Learning from Other Transporation Sectors
Welcomes:
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Professor Désirée LeClercq
Regulating maritime labour law transnationally
Tuesday, February 14 | 13 – 16 (EST)
The Case of the Transnational Regulation of International Air Law
Welcomes:
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Dr. Andrea Trimarchi
