This paper tests the hypothesis that a “California Effect” serves to transmit superior labor standards from importing to exporting countries in a manner similar to the transmission of environmental standards. Our dependent variables measure the extent to which collective labor rights are violated, both in law and in practice. Our main independent variable, the bilateral trade context, measures ...

In this article we will analyze how work is described by some of the most classic utopias, including utopian socialism. We believe that authors such as More, Campanella, Bacon, Andrae, Saint-Simon, Owen, and Fourier, inter alia, when building their utopias must have necessarily referred to in those non-existent worlds. Accordingly, dreams can help illustrate scope perspectives current labor law...

In Movies on Trial [1], I examine ways in which popular legal culture (especially television, fiction, and film) helps shape American attitudes toward different aspects of legal process and legal system. Among the topics I consider are criminal law, tort law, international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. I am now writing a second book on this subject, Movies on Appeal, and I will ...