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  • History of the International Labour Organization

    History of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Origins of the ILO An important part of the scheme for a League of Nations embodied in the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919 involved the creation of a new International Labour Organization. The Labour part of the Treaty (Part XIII.) rested on the principle laid down in…

  • History of Citation Indexing

    History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…

  • History of Trade Unions

    History of Trade Unions Trade Unions was defined as “combinations for regulating the relations between workmen and masters, workmen and workmen, or masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any industry or business.” Trade Unions until 1911 Modern trade unionism has had its chief development in English-speaking countries, and especially…

  • History of Yugoslavia

    Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The country Also called “Jugoslavia”. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). The country came into being in the closing months of 1918…

  • U.S. Labor law and movement history 2

    U.S. Labor law and movement history 2 See U.S. Labor law and movement history World War I During World War I Gompers and the AFL were strong supporters of the war effort. They minimized strikes as wages soared and full employment was reached. The AFL unions strongly encouraged their young men to enlist in the…

  • U.S. Labor law and movement history

    Labor law and organized labor history of the United States See U.S. Labor law and movement history 2 Labor law history is an effectoffspring of the social and political action of the working class movement. While this movement started its first revolts in seventeenth-century Europe, it was only capable of organizing itself in the nineteenth…

  • United States Constitution timeline

    1142 Iroquois Confederacy formed 1215 King John forced by English nobles to signthe Magna Carta at Runnymede 1620 May?ower Compact signed 1692 Salem Witch Trials 1735 Peter Zenger acquitted in a jury trial; foundnot guilty of engaging in seditious libel 1765 The British adopt the Stamp Act 1767 The British adopt the Townsend Act 1770…

  • Lawyer’s history

    Lawyer’s history Ancient Greece The earliest people who could be described as “lawyers”were probably the orators of ancient Athens (see History of Athens). However, Athenian orators faced serious structural obstacles. First, there was a rule that individuals were supposed to plead their own cases, which was soon bypassed by the increasing tendency of individuals to…

  • Settlement of Disputes

      PART XV SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 279 Obligation to settle disputes by peaceful means States Parties shall settle any dispute between them concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention by peaceful means in accordance with Article 2, […]

  • Settlement of Disputes

      PART XV SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 279 Obligation to settle disputes by peaceful means States Parties shall settle any dispute between them concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention by peaceful means in accordance with Article 2, […]

  • Common Topics

    Common Topics Arbitration Arms Control Bill of Exchange Cemeteries Church Church Properties Common Law Competition law Contracts Conventions Courts Criminal Procedure Customs Law Cybercrime Definitions Dictionaries Disarmament Elections Europe European Union Export Controls Export Law Exports Featured Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy France GATT History Human Development Human rights Immunities Import Law Information Retrieval…

  • Labor law

    Labor law Early Labor Law In England, Parliament was averse to legislating on subjects relating to workers because of the prevailing policy of laissez-faire. The earliest factory law (1802) dealt with the health, safety, and morals of children employed in textile mills, and subsequent laws […]

  • League of Nations Summary

    League of Nations Summary Introduction The Covenant of the League of Nations was incorporated in the Peace Treaty in 1919. After the World War I, the demand for an international organization to prevent war has often been made in the last four centuries after any great European conflict. The League proved incapable of effective action…

  • Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment

    Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment   Article 1. Each Member for which this Convention is in force undertakes to pursue a national policy designed to ensure the effective abolition of child labour and to raise progressively the minimum age for admission to employment or work to a level consistent with the fullest…

  • Convention Concerning Forced Labor

    Convention Concerning Forced Labor   Article 1 1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress the use of forced or compulsory labour in all its forms within the shortest possible period. 2. With a view to this complete suppression, recourse to forced or compulsory labour may be had,…