When Workers Pierce the Corporate Veil: Brazil’s Forgotten Innovation

Ask any corporate law scholar about the origins of corporate group law, and you’ll likely hear about Germany. The German Konzernrecht, codified in 1965, is celebrated as the pioneering framework for …

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Deregulating Workers’ Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis

Europe’s industrial base is under enormous strain. From chemicals to metals to automotive components, companies are scaling back production or shutting down entirely as they grapple with the same structural …

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The Taliban’s New Criminal Regulation Legalizes Slavery, Violence, and Repression of Women

On January 7, 2026, the Taliban’s emir issued a two-point decree formally endorsing a new Criminal Procedural Regulations for Courts (119 articles, 3 chapters, 10 sections) and announcing that it would take effect …

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy

This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and …

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How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, …

EU Court Draws the Line on Regulating Minimum Wages — Balancing Member State and EU Competence

Nearly three years after Denmark challenged the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages (AMWD), last November 11th, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued a landmark judgment clarifying …

The Inconsistent Approach to Violence Against Women by the European Court of Human Rights

In two recent judgments involving similar fact patterns, the European Court of Human Rights reached opposing conclusions as to whether there had been a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights: B.A. …

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Europe Is Regulating AI Hiring. Why Isn’t America?

In 2018, Amazon unveiled a groundbreaking AI hiring tool. But what began as a promise to revolutionize how the company identified talent devolved into an algorithm that “did not like women.” …

The ‘Coldplay Incident’: Work and Private Life

Last summer, a woman and a man were embracing blissfully at a Coldplay concert when they were caught by a ‘kiss cam’, a camera that is used in concerts to …

Discrimination law, Section 3 Human Rights Act, and the Higgs Poser

Both human rights law and discrimination law share a concern to ensure respect for the dignity and autonomy of individuals.  Yet they pursue those shared values on parallel tracks through …