Brian Langille
78 Queen's Park
Education
Overview
A native of Nova Scotia, Professor Langille joined the faculty at Dalhousie Law School in 1978 and moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1983, becoming Full Professor in 1989. He is the former Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (1999-2002) and former Acting (2003-04) and Interim Dean (2005) of the Law Faculty. He was Director of the Law Faculty’s Legal Theory Workshop from 1986-1999. He has been a Visiting Professor at a number of Law Schools around the world as well as a Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Nantes, France.
Professor Langille has lectured in many parts of the world on matters of globalization and social justice and also acted as advisor on constitutional and international labour law to the governments of several Canadian provinces, the Canadian Federal Government (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Human Resources and Social Development Canada), and international labour law to the North American Commission on Labour Cooperation, the International Labour Organization, and the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. He has been a member of several Canadian government delegations to the ILO, acted as a Rapporteur for the OECD, is an Editor of the International Labour Law Reports, a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Labour Review, and was a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law from 1996 to 2006. Professor Langille completed a nine-year term as a Governor of the University of Toronto in 2003. He is also an experienced labour arbitrator.
Areas of Interest
- Contract Law
- International Law & Policy
- Law of Work
- Legal Theory
Teaching
Winter Session
Research
Selected Publications
“Hard Law Makes Bad Cases” (2016), 32 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 407-423.
“Labour” in Cogan, Hurd and Johnstone (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (OUP, 2016) 472-490.
“The Condescending Constitution” (2016), 19 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 335-364.
“The Narrative of Global Justice and the Grammar of Law” in Dahan, Lerner, and Milman (eds) Global Justice and International Labour Rights (2016, Cambridge University Press).
“Law Firm Partners and the Scope of labour Laws” (2015), 4 Canadian Journal for Human Rights 211-236 (with Alon-Shenker)
“The Curious Incident of Forced Labour, the ILO, and Myanmar” in Blackette and Trebilcock (eds), Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law (Edward Elgar, 2015).
“‘Take These Chains from My Heart and Set Me Free’: How Standard Labour Law Theory Drives Unnecessary Segmentation of Worker Rights”, (2015), 36 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.
The Idea of Labour Law, (Davidov and Langille, eds.) Oxford University Press, 2011. (Paperback 2013).
Is There a Constitutional Right to Strike in Canada? (Langille, ed) Special Symposium Issue of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal (2010).
“Imagining Post Geneva Consensus Labour Law for Post Washington Consensus Development” (2010), 31 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 523-552.
"The Freedom of Association Mess: How we got into it and how we can get out of it.” (2009), 54 McGill Law Journal 177-215.
“What is International Labour Law For?” (2009), 3 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 47-82.
See also Professor Langille's SSRN page.