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Windsor law students and instructors explore issues of frontier justice in a seminar by Cornell University law professor Angela Cornell, entitled "International Labour Law and Cross-Border Issues of Economic Justice", on March 19, 2008.

Picture: Professor Angela Cornell (middle) with Dr. Paul Ocheje and Dr. Maureen Irish.
  

 

 

 

Recommendations guiding governments with respect to the numerous hazards faced by child workers exist merely as soft law, not necessarily binding on their conduct, a noted legal scholar told faculty and students at a luncheon hosted by the Centre for Transnational Law and Justice on March 11.

“There has been an expansion in the past decade of sanctions to prosecute the abuse of child labour in the areas of child prostitution, child soldiers, forced labour, use of children in illicit activities such as drug trades,” said Holly Cullen, a law professor from University of Durham in the United Kingdom, in a talk entitled “The Evolution of Child Labour Standards in International Law: From Sanctions to Prosecution to Protection.”

Picture: Professor Paul Ocheje (left) and Chris
Waters (right) with Dr. Holly Cullen.

 

She said numerous international law treaties recognize these types of victimization as criminal offenses.

“Mostly, the issue is whether states have adequate legislative frameworks and labour inspectors to ensure they are enforced, and that the right criminal law [is used] to prosecute people who use child labour,” she said.

 
  

 

 

Lecture by Dr. James Green titled "The Objective Nature of Self-Defence in International Law" on February 7, 2008. Dr. Green is from University of Reading, United Kingdom and his areas of interest include: Publice International Law, Use of Force, Internatinal Court of Justice, Theoretical Nature and Development of Internaitonal Law, Medical Law and Ethics.