Professor of Law, President Emeritus and former Dean
Osgoode Hall Law School

Email: harthurs@osgoode.yorku.ca
Website: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/harrywarthurs.html

Biography

OC, OO, BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard), Hon LLD (Brock, Law Society of Upper Canada, McGill, Montreal, Sherbrooke and Toronto), Hon DLitt (Lethbridge), Hon. DCL (Windsor), FRSC, FBA of the Bar of Ontario, President Emeritus, University Professor of Law and Political Science

Professor Arthurs joined Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty in 1961. He has written extensively on labour law, administrative law, law and globalization, legal ethics, and governance of the legal profession. Professor Arthurs is currently involved in a major research project on Canadian constitutionalism in the perspective of globalization, neo-liberalism, populism, decentralization and juridification. Former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School and former President of York University, Professor Arthurs has provided significant leadership in higher education. Widely known and honoured for his academic achievements, he was awarded the first-ever Killam Prize in the Social Sciences in 2002 and in 2003, the first-ever Bora Laskin Prize for contributions to Labour Law. His many publications include his book Without the Law: Administrative Justice and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth Century England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).


Selected Publications

"The Administrative State Goes to Market - And cries wee, wee, wee all the way home" University of
Toronto Law Journal (special issue in honour of John Willis) (forthcoming)

"Madly Off In One Direction: McGill's New Integrated, Poly-Jural, Trans-systemic, Law Program" 50
McGill Law Journal (forthcoming)

"What Immortal Hand or Eye? - Who Will Redraw the Boundaries of Labour Law?" in G. Davidov and B. Langille, Redrawing the Boundaries of Protection (forthcoming)

"Vox Populi: Populism, The Constitution and the Legislative Process in an Age of Globalization and
Neo-Liberalism" in T. Kahane (ed.) The Role of Legislatures in a Constitutional State (forthcoming)

"Does the Charter Matter?" - (forthcoming) (with Brent Arnold) - Journal of Constitutional Studies -
"Corporate Self-regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour Law" in T.
Wilthagen and R. Rogowski (eds.) Reflexive Labour Law: Studies in International and European
Employment Law and Labour Market Policy (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming)

"Corporate Codes of Conduct: Profit, Power and Law in the Global Economy" in W. Cragg (ed.)
Corporate Codes: The Regulatory Norms of the Global Economy? (Elgar Press, forthcoming)

"Constitutional Courage" 49 McGill Law Journal 1

"The Constitutionalization o f Labour Rights" University of Cape Town Centre for Development and
Labour Monograph Series, Occasional Paper 1/2004

"Governing the Canadian State: The Constitution in an Era of Globalization, Neo-Liberalism, Populism,
Decentralization and Judicial Activism" 13 Constitutional Forum 60-68

"Governance after the Washington Consensus: The Public Domain, The State and the Microphysics of Power" 29 Man and Development 85-112

"Labor Law Scholarship: The Canadian Case" 23 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 645-678

"The State We're In: Legal Education in Canada's New Political Economy" 27 Windsor Yearbook of
Access to Justice 35-54

"Woe unto You, Judges: or How Reading Frankfurter and Greene, The Labor Injunction , Ruined Me as a Labour Lawyer and Made Me as an Academic" 29 Journal of Law and Society 657-666

"The Re-constitution of the Public Domain" in D. Drache and R. Higgott (eds.), The Market or the Public Domain: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power (London: Routledge) 85-110

"Poor Canadian Legal Education: So Near to Wall Street, So Far from God" (2001) 38 Osgoode Hall
Law Journal 381-408

"Private Ordering and Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation" in J. Conaghan, K.Klare, M. Fischl (eds.) Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Oxford: Oxford University Press) republished in in W. Cragg (ed.) Corporate Codes: The Regulatory Norms of the Global Economy? (Elgar Press, forthcoming)

"The Role of Global Law Firms in Constructing or Obstructing a Transnational Regime of Labour Law" in R. Appelbaum, W. Felstiner, V. Gessner (eds.) Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions (Oxford: Hart Publishing) 273-299.

"Where Have You Gone, John R. Commons, Now That We Need You So?" (Review Of Daniel T.
Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics In A Progressive Age) 21 Comparative Labor Law and
Policy Journal 373-390

"Reinventing Labor Law For The Global Economy", 22 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 271-294 reprinted in Andrew Morriss and Samuel Estreicher (eds.) Cross-Border Human Resources and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54th Annual Conference on Labor (The Hague/London/Boston: Kluwer: 2004).

"The Hollowing out of Corporate Canada?" in J. Jenson and B. Santos (eds.) Globalizing Institutions:
Case Studies in Social Regulation and Innovation (London: Ashgate Press) 29-51

"The World Turned Upside Down: Are Changes in Political Economy and Legal Practice Transforming Legal Education and Scholarship? Or Vice Versa?" 8 International Journal of the Legal Profession 11-21