Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us for the final event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. The event will focus on Approaches to Labor Rights and will feature: Mitchel Lasser Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell Law School    "Fundamentally Flawed: The CJEU’s Jurisprudence on Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" Kerry Rittich Professor, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto   "Fragmented Work and Multi-level Labor Market Governance: Labor Law in Crisis" The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place onMonday, April 21st, from 3:45-5:45pm in the Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) at the University of Texas School of Law. Light refreshments will be served. Mitchel Lasser is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies at Cornell Law School and co-directs the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris. He teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, and judicial process. He is author of numerous law review articles, as well as of Judicial Transformations: The Rights Revolution in the Courts of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy (Oxford University Press, 2004). Before joining Cornell in 2004, Lasser was the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. He has since been a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the European University Institute in Florence, NYU School of Law, and Yale Law School. He received a B.A. from Yale College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. in French literature and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University. Kerry Rittich is Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law and international institutions, law and development, human rights, labour law, and critical and feminist theory. Among her publications are Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2005),Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002)(with Joanne Conaghan, University of Kent), and numerous articles and book chapters. In 2004, she completed a report for the Law Commission of Canada entitled, Vulnerable Workers: Legal and Policy Issues in the New Economy. Rittich has been the Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard Law School and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, as well as a fellow at the European University Institute. Before entering academia, she served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Rittich obtained an LL.B. from the University of Alberta and an S.J.D. from Harvard University. More information on the colloquium can be found here. We hope to see you there! All Best, Karen Engle Daniel Brinks   Event Details Date: April 21, 2014 Time: 3:45-5:45pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111), UT School of Law

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