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Research and Publications

What we research

Our research reflects upon and shapes the direction of the emerging and听contested field of Transnational Labour Law.听 Over the years, our research has听introduced听key considerations into current debates on the direction of transnational labour law as a field and offered critical engagement with the following themes:听

The relationship between labour law and development, both in the global South and in the global North
Hegemonic transplantation of labour regulatory frameworks in labour law, from the global North to the global South
The transnational regulation of decent work for domestic workers, including the intersection of multiple grounds of discrimination (race, gender, nationality) and regulatory innovation in the global South
Social regionalism as counter-hegemonic, multilevel governance of the relationship of the social in the economic, and听engaging international solidarity
Labour market informality in its relationship to legal pluralism, and regulatory transformation
Labour migration, the 鈥楽outh of听the North鈥�, and the decent work complement to reasonable labour market access
Emancipation in the idea of labour law, including labour law as development.

In addition to the research undertaken by the Labour Law and Development Research Network (LLDRN),听the LLDRL also supports听graduate and postdoctoral fellows听interested in completing research on the themes listed above.听Many of our fellows visit the LLDRL through the O'Brien Fellowship program of the 黑料不打烊 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Graduate fellows have benefitted from other sources of postdoctoral support, including under the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development (2016-2017), a SSCHR Banting Fellowship (2011-2013), as well as CRIMT-LLDRL Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010).

What we publish

Working papers series

The LLDRL periodically publishes commissioned working papers on labour law and development, focusing in particular on historical analyses and discussions of pluralist sources of labour law.听

	Dzodzi Tsikata Promoting Change in Domestic Work Conditions from Outside the State in a Context of Regulatory Inertia: The Case of Ghana LLDRL Working Paper Series #9, July 2018
	Louise Boivin Ch猫que service, normes du travail et libert茅 d'association: Le cas du Qu茅bec LLDRL Working Paper Series #8, July 2017
	Adelle Blackett and Thierry Galani Tiemeni Regulatory Innovation in The Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration听 LLDRL Working Paper Series #7, September 2016 (2nd edition: December 2016).
	Adelle Blackett with the collaboration of Assata Kon茅-Silu茅 Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in C么te d'Ivoire: Labour Administration and the Judiciary under a Generalist Labour听Code听 LLDRL Working Paper Series #6, March 2016.
	Lorena Poblete New Rights, Old Social Protection: The New Regulation for Domestic Workers in Argentina听 LLDRL Working Paper Series #5, May 2015.
	Assata Kon茅-Silu茅 La n茅gociation collective comme source de normativit茅 en droit du travail ivoirien听 LLDRL Working Paper Series #4, 2014.
	Moreira Gomes, Ana Virg铆nia and Martins Bertolin, Patr铆cia Tuma Regulatory Challenges of Domestic Work: The Case of Brazil听 LLDRL Working Paper #3, 2010.
	Jean-Marie Tchakoua Les tendances de la n茅gociation collective de l'猫re nouvelle au Cameroun听 LLDRL Working Paper #2, 2010.
鈥�	David Austin Pan-Africanism, Caribbean Exile, and Post-Colonial Africa听 LLDRL Working Paper #1, 2010.

Special publications on topics related to the LLDRL听

Transnational labour law

	鈥�鈥� (2025) edited by Adelle Blackett, Laura Dehaibi, M. Adedayo Odusanya, and Edward van Daalen
	"Decolonizing Labour Law: Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law," Vol. 33:2,听Revue听Canadienne Droit et Soci茅t茅 / Canadian Journal of Law and Society听(2018), with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor), as well as a range of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows from 黑料不打烊 University affiliated with the LLDRL and speakers who presented their work through the LLDRL, including Sabaa Khan (alumni of the LLDRL), Zobaida Khan (alumni),听Armel Brice Adanhounme (member of the LLDRL) et听Martin Galli茅 (member of the LLDRL).听
	"" (2015)听edited by Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock (Edward Elgar Publishing).听
	"," (2011) edited by Adelle Blackett and Christian L茅vesque (Routledge).

Labour law and development

	"," Vol. 32:2,听Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal听(2011), with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor), Dzodzi Tsikata, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Diamond Ashiagbor et Chantal Thomas (all members and alumni of the听LLDRL).听
	Adelle Blackett, ","听(2007) International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper No. 179.

Regulation of decent work for domestic workers

鈥�	"," Vol 34:2,听International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations,听(2018), a special section听on decent work for domestic workers, with contributions from Adelle Blackett (co-guest editor), Anne Trebilcock (co-guest editor), Lorena Poblete and Thierry Galani Tiemeni (all members of the LLDRL).听
	Elsa Galerand, Martin Galli茅 (member of the LLDRL) and听Jeanne Olivier Gobeil, "Domestic Labour and Exploitation: The Case of Live-In Caregiver in Canada (LCP)," (Janvier 2015), in collaboration with PINAY and the听Service aux collectivit茅s de l鈥橴QAM. This report is also available in french.
	"," Vol 23:1,听Revue听Femmes et Droit听/ Canadian Journal of Women and the Law听(2011), a special number on domestic workers, with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor) and听Dzodzi Tsikata (member of the听LLDRL).
	Dzodzi Tsikata,听"," (2009)听ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 23.听
	Adelle Blackett, "," (1998)听ILO, Labour Law and Labour Relations Programme.听

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