The editors bring together leading international specialists willing to move beyond textual analyses of regional agreements to offer alternative accounts of regional integration. The work emphasizes that institutional context and social actors at multiple governance levels are integral to the progressive construction and regulation of regional space. It further contributes to the literature by combining insights from overlooked regional entities in transition and developing countries with original analyses from the European Union and the NAFTA. These aims will be achieved by combining original research that is empirically grounded with theoretically informed analysis.
Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law at McGill University, Canada. She holds a doctorate in law from Columbia University where she taught as an Associate in Law for two years. She is a research coordinator for the Inter-university Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), the convener of the Labour Law and Development Research Network (LLDRN) and the recent recipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation award to construct a Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL).
Christian Lévesque is Professor of Human Resource Management at HEC Montréal, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from Laval University and did post-doctoral work at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He is an AIM visiting international fellow (Advanced Institute of Management). He is Co-director for the Inter-university Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and leads a research team on the evolution of employment relations within multinational firms in the global era.