Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Hybrid Guest Lecture: Transnationalizing Labour Law: A Chinese Perspective (5 September 2023 Finnish China Law Centre)


 

I am happy to pass along information about what looks to be an excellent event:  Hybrid Guest Lecture: Transnationalizing Labour Law: A Chinese Perspective, sponsored by the Finnish China Law Centre.

On 5 September 2023, Visiting Professor Yifeng Chen will give a hybrid guest lecture on ‘Transnationalizing Labour Law: A Chinese Perspective’. The event will be in hybrid (live & online) format.

Time: 5 September, 13:15 – 14:45 Finnish time. Venue: Zoom and Room P545, 5th floor of the Porthania Building (Faculty of Law), University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

The event is free and open to all audiences. You can attend the seminar via Zoom or in person at Room P545 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki. We kindly ask you to register by 4 September by completing the following electronic form:

https://www.lyyti.in/Transnationalizing_Labour_Law_A_Chinese_Perspective_9600

More information follows below.  

Background of the presentation

Transnationalizing Labour Law: A Chinese Perspective

Transnationalization has been a visible trend of development in the regulation of labour conditions over the past two decades. Labour provisions can be found increasingly in free trade agreements, labor standards of international financial institutions, documents of corporate social responsibilities and so on. The transnationalizing of labour regulations has brought imminent challenges to the presumption of territoriality underlying national as well as international labour laws. The challenges are particularly acute in China where labour regulations are seen as domestic and thus irrelevant to its international policies. The presentation examines the development of transnational labour law and its impact on China. It further explores the potential role China may play in positively addressing the South-North gap in the current project of transnational labour law.

About the speakers

Yifeng Chen is an Associate Professor at the Peking University Law School and Deputy Director of the Peking University Institute of International Law. Before joining the Peking University, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki from 2010-2013. His fields of interest include international law, international organizations, international and comparative labour law.

 

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