Following a successful conference in 2023, the Labour Law History from a Global Perspective network will meet for the second time, this year focusing on the law of labour from a biographical perspective. The focus will be on well-known labour lawyers, but also on people who have had an influence on labour law or the regulation of the world of work in other contexts. Interest lies in what influence they had in their respective national contexts, as well as beyond – may that be transnational, transregional or translocal.

The conference will be hybrid. If you are interested in participating (in person or online), please send an email to wolf@lhlt.mpg.de until 25 August 2024.

Tuesday, 03.09.2024
09:30–10:00 Arrival and Registration

INTRODUCTION 10:00–10:45
Thesis Paper on the State of the Art
Johanna Wolf (MPILHLT) / Rebecca Zahn (Strathclyde University)

Comment:
Christian G. De Vito (University of Vienna)

PANEL I / THE AMERICAS 10:45–12:00
Chair: Raquel R. Sirotti (MPILHLT)
Bora Laskin and the Shaping of Canadian Labour Law
Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Slavery and Free Labour Under the Same Quill: Joze Thomaz Nabuco de Araujo and the Making of the Law of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Marjorie Carvalho de Souza (Università del Salento)

12:00–13:00 Lunch break

PANEL II / AUSTRALIASIA 13:00–14:30
Chair: Prakhar Ganguly (MPILHLT)
The Eight Hour Day Movement and the Development of Australian Labour Law
John Howe (Melbourne Law School)

Transnational Legal Lives and Fiji's First General Strike 1920: Manilal Maganlal Shah
Jasmine Ali (Melbourne Law School)

Mediating Justice: Jurisprudence in India
Megha Sharma (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)

14:30–15:00 Coffee break

PANEL III / LAWYERS IN EXILE 15:00–16:30
Chair: Magdalena Gebhart (MPILHLT)
German Labour Lawyers in the British Exile
Rebecca Zahn (Strathclyde University)

Hugo Sinzheimer’s Influence in the Netherlands
Robert Knegt (University of Amsterdam, Hugo Sinzheimer Institute Amsterdam)

The Impact of German Exiles on Labour Law in Argentina: The Case of Ernesto Karz and Ernesto Krotoschin
Leticia Vita and Julieta Lobato (University of Buenos Aires)

17:00–18:00 Dinner

FIRESIDE CHAT: HOW DO WE REMEMBER LABOUR LAWYERS. THE ARCHIVING OF LEGACIES 18:00–19:00
Chair: Rebecca Zahn
Pascal Annerfelt (Hugo Sinzheimer Institute)
Anja Kruke (Archive of Social Democracy)
Paul Smith (Wedderburn Legacy)

Wednesday, 04.09.2024
PANEL IV / EUROPEAN NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 10:00–11:30
Chair: Nina Cozzi (MPILHLT)
Paal Berg and Norwegian Labour Law
Alexander Sønderland Skjønberg (BI Norwegian Business School)

Gino Giugni
Irene Stolzi (University of Florence)

Eugenia Pragier and the Quest for Women's Labour Protection in Poland
Natalia Jarska (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences)

PODCAST ON AFRICAN LEGAL HISTORY – HISTORY OF THE INVISIBLE 11:30–12:15
Chair: Johanna Wolf (MPILHLT)
Raquel R. Sirotti (MPILHLT)

12:15–13:15 Lunch break

PANEL V / EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES 13:15–14:45
Chair: Manfred Weiss (Goethe University)
Eliane Vogel-Polsky
Anna Quadflieg (MPILHLT)

Between Paris, Geneva and Beyond: Albert Thomas, From National to International Labour Legislation
Adeline Blaskiewicz (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Paul Pic and the Others. The Transnational Insight of European Legal Culture on Labour at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Virginia Amorosi (University of Naples “Frederico II”)

14:45–15:00 Coffee break

FINAL COMMENT 15:00–15:45
Thorsten Keiser (Justus Liebig University)
Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements)

Contact: wolf@lhlt.mpg.de


Source: Founders and Shapers of Labour Law. National and Transnational Perspectives., In: H-Soz-Kult, 04.07.2024, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145191>.