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Judy Fudge

Lansdowne Chair in Law
B.A. Honours (McGill), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Osgoode), D.Phil. (Oxford)

Judy Fudge joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in January 2007 as the Lansdowne Chair in Law, after beginning her academic career at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1987. Her research interests are employment and labour law, feminist approaches to law, and the political economy of law. She has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute, McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, the London School of Economics, the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford, and she has held visiting chairs at the University of British Columbia and the University of Saskatchewan. In 2009, she received the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights for her research project "Labour Rights as Human Rights: Unions, Women, and Migrants".

Judy Fudge has been widely published in law, history, and industrial relations journals, and she has co-authored and co-edited several books. She has held editorial positions with a number of journals in different disciplines, including editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2000 to 2003). She is a member of the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work. Her publications include Labour Before the Law: The Legal Regulation of Workers' Collective Action (with Eric Tucker, 2001), Privatization, Law and the Challenge to Feminism (with Brenda Cossman, 2002), Self-employed Workers Organize: Unions, Law, and Policy (with Cynthia Cranford, Eric Tucker, and Leah Vosko, 2005), Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (with Rosemary Owens, 2006), and Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles (with Eric Tucker, 2010).

Currently, Judy Fudge is working on projects relating to migrant workers, constitutionalizing labour rights in Canada and the European union, and the legal regulation of precarious and informal work.

SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=437883

Judy Fudge
Lansdowne Chair in Law
F aculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada

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