Stanford Law School presents International Labor Standards, Rights and Beyond, on August 14th-15th, 2009Â This conference will focus on the development of international labor standards and rights and the use of foreign law by national court systems. The range of topics will include transnational labor citizenship, country-specific labor programs
linking trade and labor rights, and the role of the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.
The conference will provide a forum in which to examine freedom of association, the right to strike under the aforementioned organization policies, and the impact of the ILO upon regional trade agreements and national policies. There will be extensive discussion of private codes of conduct established by corporations and negotiated by NGOs. The conference will end with a specific focus on labor standards in the United States and Asia.
Featured speakers include Honorable Donald Johnston, former Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Judge Rosemary Barkett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit;Professor Harry Arthurs of Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Robert Flanagan of Stanford Graduate School of Business; Professor Risa Lieberwitz of Cornell University; and Dan Henkle, Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at Gap, Inc.
