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T R A N S N A T I O N A L L A B O R L A W R E V I E W

A R e c o r d o f A s i a n C o m p a r a t i v e L a b o r L a w

The format of the journal would be as follows: • Initially bi-annual; • In hardcopy (with abstracts online); • Publishes articles, essays and conference proceedings on comparative labor law with a focus on China and the Asia-Pacific;

• Focus on articles which offer empirical or doctrinal comparisons of labor and employment regulation issues common to two or more Asia-Pacific countries, or compares international labor law standards with those in place in Asia-Pacific nation states or offers analysis of regulatory developments in a single nation state which is of relevance to international debate about labor and employment policy;

• All submissions are subject to double blind peer review of the highest standard; • Article length limited to 6, 000 words to encourage scholarly and specific work on recent developments; and • Footnotes to conform to the Uniform System of Citations commonly used in U.S. schools of law.

E d i t o r i a l B o a r d

A group of active labor law scholars and practitioners with international standing in the US, PRC, Canada and Australia will be approached to form the editorial board of the TLLR. It is important not only to have people on the board who are active in comparative labor law but also to have colleagues who can act as rapporteurs on the developments of international consequence in their own jurisdiction. U.S. Ronald Brown (Professor, University of Hawai’i) Clyde Summers (Professor, University of Pennsylvania) Kenneth Dau-Schmidt (Professor, Indiana University) PRC Bjorn Ahl (Visiting Professor, China-EU School of Law) Frank He (Associate Professor, CityU of Hong Kong) Guobin Zhu (Associate Professor CityU of Hong Kong) Canada Judy Fudge (Professor, University of Victoria) Australia Ron Baragry (Senior Counsel, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) Arthur Moses, SC (Barrister, Sydney) Rohan Price (Research Fellow, University of Tasmania) Andrew Stewart (Professor, University of Adelaide)

“active labor law scholars & practitioners with

international standing”

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D a y - t o - d a y M a n a g e m e n t

Each issue will rely on a group of six STL students from the JD program will have the opportunity to manage the refereeing and editing process and receive course credit for doing so. The students will receive submissions, handle correspondence, administer the refereeing process under the guidance of the Managing Editor and proofread accepted articles.

M a n a g i n g E d i t o r , T L L R

Rohan Price BA, LLB, LLM is a research fellow of the University of Tasmania and a legal consultant to labor and industry. He has returned recently to Australia from Hong Kong where he spent two years as an Assistant Professor of the City University of Hong Kong. He is author of numerous journal articles on labor history and employment law published in ranking Australian and international law journals and has taught employment law for 15 years. His recent book, The Employment Laws of Hong Kong and China (Hong Kong: Lexis Nexis, 2009) was praised by international jurist and retired Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby AO as “trailblazing”, “prescient and important” and “bearing the marks of academic scholarship”. Hong Kong Lawyer, published by the Law Society of Hong Kong, reviewed the book calling it an “excellent work” which is “well-presented and well written” with “an attention to detail”. Rohan’s most recent research has been in the areas of shipowners’ liability for mesothelioma (Asian Journal of Comparative Law) and an international comparison of common law strategies used by executives in termination situations (Journal of Comparative Labor Law and Policy). After an inaugural general issue of the TLLR, Rohan plans a special issue on corporate, provincial and national wage setting policies in the PRC.