Labour studies professor Judy Fudge has been awarded the 2019 Bora Laskin Award, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to Canadian labour law. (Photo by Georgia Kirko, McMaster University)
Over the course of her career, Fudge has studied and shaped policy on gender equity, employment standards and labour rights in Canada and abroad.
Before joining McMaster in 2018, Fudge taught at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Victoria, and the University of Kent, and has held visiting professorships and fellowships at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University in Sweden, the NORMA research environment at the University of Lund in Sweden, the European University Institute in Florence, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, France, and the Re:Work: IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
She is the LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Professor in Global Labour Issues, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Fudge has written widely in the broad area of labour law, most recently focusing on the labour/migration law nexus, citizenship at work, and feminist approaches to labour law. She has worked with women's groups, legal clinics, trade unions and the International Labour Organization. Her most recent work focuses on labour exploitation, modern slavery and unfree labour in the context of labour migration, and she is working on a book on that topic.
The Bora Laskin Award is named after the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. It recognizes Fudge's "commitment to social progress and her development of labour law theory have drawn international attention, shining a light on Canadian legal research and scholarship."
