Carlos Hernandez
Born in October 23, 1967 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Professor at Pontifical Catholic University Madre & Maestra (PCUMM) School of Law (www.pucmm.edu.do); General Manager of The Institute of Labor Studies – Dominican Republic (www.institutoestudiosdeltrabajo.org.do) Attorney and Founder Partner of Law Firm Hernandez Contreras, Herrera & Associates (www.hernandezcontreras.com.do); ISLSSL Regional Vice-president for North America & the Caribbean

Education: Master of Laws (LL.M) in Labor & Social Security Laws, University of Paris 1 – Pantheon-sorbonne (2005); Master in Direction & Management of Social Security Systems, University of Alcala, Spain (2004), and J. D. from National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Santo Domingo (1991).

Publications: Labor & Employment Law in the Dominican Republic Constitution (1995), Social Security in Santo Domingo, written in collaboration with Prof. Lupo Hernandez-Rueda (1996), The Collective Bargaining in Dominican Republic (1998), Labor Law & Economic Globalization (1998), Basics Notions about the Dominican Social Security System (2002), Necessary Reforms for the Dominican Social Security System (2004), The NAFTA Labor Side Agreement (2005)

Languages: Spanish, English and French

Antoine Jeammaud
Doctor of Laws (Lyon, 1975). Bachelor of Private Law and Criminology (Paris 1975). Professor at Université de Saint-Étienne (St Stephens) from 1976-1998;
Professor at Université de Lumière Lyon 2 (Institute of Labour Studies of Lyon (IETL-Lyon 2), since 1998;
Founding (now former) director of Centre for Critical Research in Law2 of Université de Saint-Étienne (Associate Unit of National Centre of Scientific Research). Director of the Centre of research in social sciences of IETL-Lyon 2;
President of the French Association in labour Law and Social Security since 2004 (re-elected in 2007);
Invited professor and conference presenter for various Canadian and Latin American universities or European institutions;

Author of works and numerous studies in the areas of labour law, European social security law and legal theory;

Principal works: The Capitalist Law of Work (Editor); Critical Collection of Law. Grenoble, 1980; Labour Law, Democracy in Crisis in Europe and America (Co-edited with Antoine Lyon-Caen), Paris-Arles, Actes sud, 1986; Labour Law (with Jean Pélisseir and Alain Supiot), Paris, Dalloz, 23rd Edition, 2006; Great Achievements in Labour Law (with J Pélissier, A Lyon-Caen and E Dockès), Dalloz, 2004; Labour Law Confronting the (New?) Economy (Editor), Paris, Dalloz, Collection of Essays and Commentaries, 2005.

Gillian Lester
Gillian Lester is a Professor of Law at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law .

She obtained her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia, and in 1990 graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. While at the University of Toronto, she was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review.

Following graduation, she clerked in the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and later obtained her J.S.M. and J.S.D. degrees at Stanford Law School. Between 1994 and 2006, she was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Law. In 2000, she was Sloan Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School. She is currently an Advisor to the American Law Institute Restatement of Employment Law.

Publications include A Defense of Paid Family Leave, 28 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & GENDER 1 (2005), Unemployment Insurance and Wealth Redistribution, 49 UCLA LAW REVIEW 335 (2001), Restrictive Covenants, Employee Training, and the Limits of Transaction Cost Analysis, 76, INDIANA LAW JOURNAL (2001), Careers and Contingency, 51 STANFORD LAW REVIEW (1998), and JUMPING THE QUEUE: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LEGAL TREATMENT OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES (Harvard University Press, 1997, with Mark Kelman). She is also a co-author of WILLBORN, SCHWAB, BURTON & LESTER, EMPLOYMENT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (2007) and ESTREICHER AND LESTER, EMPLOYMENT LAW STORIES (2007). She teaches Contracts and Employment Law.

Rosemary Owens
Rosemary Owens is a Professor at The University of Adelaide and is the Acting Dean of Law and Head of School.
Professor Owens teaches and researches in the areas of the law of work (including employment, labour and industrial relations law, and anti-discrimination law), as well as constitutional law, and feminist- and sociolegal theory.

She has published widely in the areas of her particular scholarly interests, which include the legal regulation of new or “non-standard” forms of work; women’s work; the construction of work in both the public and private spheres by international and national legal systems; and social and economic rights.

Principal Publications: Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (Hart  Publishing, Oxford UK and Portland Oregon, 2006 – co-edited with  Prof Judy Fudge), and The Law of Work (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007 – co-authored with Dr Joellen Riley), which is a reappraisal of the regulation of work in Australia in the global era.

Professor Rosemary Owens was also the Chair of the Management Committee of the Working Women’s Centre of South Australian  (Inc) from 2003-2006.