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Adelle Blackett holds a doctorate in law from Columbia University. She is an associate professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. A former official of the International Labour Organization (ILO), she has recently been an academic expert on ILO standard setting for decent work for domestic workers. Blackett is currently a member of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec, a research coordinator for the Inter-university Research Centre on Globalization and Work, and director of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory. She was awarded the 2010 Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research.

Rosemary Cairns Way is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa. She teaches primarily in the first-year program and specializes in constitutional and criminal law. She is the mother of three grown children and keeps her life balanced by performing regularly with Opera Lyra Ottawa.

Catharina Calleman is an assistant professor in the Department of Law at the University of Umea°, Sweden. She teaches and does research in labour law. Recently, her work has concerned the regulation of domestic work and care work performed in private homes. Her next project will concern labour migration in the Nordic countries.

Martha Alter Chen is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and international coordinator of the global network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). An experienced development practitioner and scholar, her areas of specialization are employment, gender, and poverty. Chen received a Ph.D. in South Asia regional studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Anne-Marie Delagrave is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in law at the University of Victoria and is a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship. Her thesis examines the regulation of physical appearance in the workplace in Canada. Her research interests include human rights, employment and labour law, and feminist approaches to law.

Judy Fudge is a professor and Lansdowne Chair in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria and member of the Inter-University Research Centre on [End Page 393] Globalization and Work (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail).

Jonnette Watson Hamilton is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She joined the faculty in 1992 after thirteen years of private practice in rural Alberta. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of legal theory, equality, discourse analysis, property law and theory, and commercial arbitration.

Jennifer Koshan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She formerly practised for several years in the Northwest Territories as Crown counsel and worked as the legal director of the BC branch of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, equality and human rights, violence against women, and public interest advocacy.

Maria Luz Vega est spécialiste principale du programme d'administration et d'inspection du travail, Organisation internationale du travail, Genève.

Mary Jane Mossman is a professor of law in Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She teaches family law and property law and engages in research in these areas and in relation to access to justice and the history of women lawyers. In addition to a number of recent articles and presentations about women lawyers, she has published The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing 2006) and is currently writing a history of women in law in Ontario.

Guy Mundlak is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University and chair of the Department of Labor Studies. His research is focused on labour and welfare law, industrial relations, and migration. His method seeks to assess the relationship between substantive legal norms and modes of interests representation.

Neetha N. holds a Ph.D. (Economics) from the Centre for Development Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Currently, she is senior fellow at the...

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