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The Future of the International Labour Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Laurence R. Helfer
Laurence R. Helfer*
Affiliation:
International Legal Studies Program, Vanderbilt University Law School
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The Future of International Labor Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 101 , 2007 , pp. 391 - 394
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

1 Is there an Emerging Transnational Regime for Labor Standards? 93 ASIL Proc. 380 (1999)Google Scholar.

2 The Challenge of Non-State Actors, 92 ASIL Proc. 20, 35 (1998)Google Scholar (statement of Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

3 For an analysis of the ILO’s rich and varied history, see Heifer, Laurence R. Understanding Change in International Organizations: Globalization and Innovation in the ILO, 59 Vand. L. Rev. 649 (2006)Google Scholar.

4 For a more detailed discussion of these issues, see id. at 704-17.

5 Inťl Lab. Org., Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work ¶ 2 (June 1998).

6 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Bipartisan Agreement on Trade Policy: Labor (May 2007), available at <http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Fact_Sheets/2007/asset_upload_file627_l 1284.pdf> (setting forth an agreement between the Congress and the President to include in future trade treaties “enforceable reciprocal obligation^] ... to adopt and maintain” the international labor principles contained in the 1998 Declaration).

7 Heifer, supra, at 708-09.

8 International Labour Organization, Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, 17 ILM 422 (1978)Google Scholar.

9 Leary, Virginia A. Nonbinding Accords in the Field of Labor, in International Compliance With Nonbinding Accords 247, 250 (Weiss, Edith Brown ed., 1997)Google Scholar.

10 Inťl Lab. Off., Developments Concerning the Question of the Observance by the Government of Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), GB.297/8/2 (Geneva, Nov. 2006).

11 On February 26, 2007, Myanmar agreed to the appointment of an ILO Liaison Officer who will receive and review complaints of forced labor in the country. Int’l Lab. Off., Developments Concerning the Question of the Observance by the Government of Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), GB 298/5/1 (Geneva, Mar. 2007). It remains to be seen whether Myanmar will honor these new commitments.