The Daunting Enterprise of the Law: Essays in Honour of Harry Arthurs

Harry Arthurs, professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and former president of York University, is one of the most widely respected scholars, educators, and policy makers in the world today. His enormous academic and institutional productivity has extended to administrative and labour law, legal pluralism and legal theory, legal education and institutional reform. This collection brings together essays, thought pieces, reminiscences and commentaries written in honour of Arthurs from scholars and colleagues from around the world whose work and thinking has been shaped by Arthurs' contributions over the years. --Publisher's description. Contents: Part 1. The pluralization, decentralization, and transnationalization of labour law. The singular pluralism of Harry Arthurs / Brian Langille -- A Yankee gets schooled in King Arthurs's court: Canadian labour law as a cautionary tale / Cynthia Estlund -- The once and future industrial citizen / Gregor Murray -- A tale of two Harrys: the life and demise of industrial pluralism in Canada / Eric Tucker. Part 2. Labour law's precarious infrastructures. Defining labour standards: Harry Arthurs's beau risque / Gilles Trudeau -- Formality and informality in the law of work / Kerry Rittich -- Mapping labour law with, within, and without the state / Mark Freedland -- Part 3. Legal ordering's narrow ledge. Dancing with Dicey : a tentative embrace of judicial review / David Dyzenhaus -- Administrative justice in Arthurs's court / Lorne Sossin -- Investor rights and the judicial denial of neo-liberal constitutionalism / David Schneiderman. Part 4. The tree of knowledge - The axe of power. "Imagination, determination and passion": a heroic agenda or legal education / Robert W. Gordon -- The state of legal scholarship and graduate legal education in Canada / Liora Salter -- "Globalization" as framing concept: some implications for legal education / William Twining. Part 5. Citizens and markets.  Workplace law without the state? / Kevin Banks -- Reform in small steps : the case of the dependent contractor / Guy Davidov -- Labour markets should be judged innocent until proven guilty / Morley Gunderson. Part 6. The frontier of labour law's uncertain future. Labour law and the political economy of inequality / Michael Lynk -- "A new thing: shall ye not know it?": on living metaphors in transnational labour law / Adelle Blackett -- Inequality, gender violence, human rights / Sally Engle Merry -- Labour law and its "last" generation / David Doorey and Ruth Dukes -- The daunting challenge: economic justice for subordinated groups / Katherine V.W. Stone. Part 7. Milestones, imperfect foresight, and formative beginnings: The making of a legal realist. Harry Arthurs : the law student years / Martin Friedland -- Confronting the dragon of globalization: Harry, St George, and me / David M. Trubek -- Reading landscape and power / Bruno Caruso -- An authoritative bibliography of Harry Arthurs’s academic and other writings.

OCLC: 959691731