Isabelle MARTIN - Associate Professor, School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montreal, Canada - Co-researcher, Inter-university Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Canada. - Research Associate, Chair in Governance and Business Law, (University of Montreal, Law Faculty. Lionel-Groulx Building, 3150 Jean-Brillant Street, room C-7022, Montreal, H3T 1N8 (514) 343-6111 ext. 1816 (office) isabelle.martin.9@umontreal.ca website : http://eri.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/vue/martin-isabelle/ Education - D.C.L. McGill University, 2012. - LL.M. Université de Montreal, 2000. - LL.B. Université de Montreal, 1995. - B.A. McGill University, 1991. Employment Associate Professor, School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montreal, 2018- present. Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montreal, 2012-2018. Assistant Researcher, Centre for Private and Comparative Law, McGill University, 2004. Lawyer, Melançon, Marceau, Grenier & Sciortino, 2001-2002. Clerk to the Hon. Jean-Louis Baudouin, Quebec Court of Appeal, Montreal, 1999-2000. Area of interest Labour and Employment Law, Human Rights Law, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance, Economic Sociology of Law. Current projects 1. Power imbalance between workers and employers and its impact on the mediation process (with Urwana Coiquaud). 2. The employer power to modify working conditions (with Guylaine Vallée, Urwana Coiquaud and Julie Bourgault) 3. Is corporate social responsibility useful for trade unions in the mining sector? A Canada-Peru comparison (with Mélanie Dufour-Poirier and Francisco Villanueva). 1
Publications Articles in academic journals 1. Isabelle Martin, The Use of Transnational Labour Law in Steering Socially Responsible Corporate Governance toward Increased Workers Protection, 2018 33 (2) Canadian Journal of Law & Society/Revue canadienne Droit et Société, 159-176. 2. Isabelle Martin et Maude Choko, Minimum Wage as a Matter of Tangible Human Dignity: a Comparative Constitutional Law Analysis, 2018 34(3) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 231-255. 3. Isabelle Martin (1st authorship) and Guylaine Vallée, Employment Protection Measures for Termination on Economic Grounds in Quebec and Canadian Federal Law", 2017/4 English Electronic Edition of Revue de Droit comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale 190-197, translation and re-issuing of "Les mesures de protection de l emploi du salarié licencié pour des motifs économiques en droit québécois et fédéral canadien", 2017/2 Revue de Droit comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale 88-93. 4. Urwana Coiquaud and Isabelle Martin (equal authorship): "La relation franchiseur-franchisé : un archétype des relations d emploi dans l entreprise réseau?" (The franchisor-franchisee relationship: an archetype of employment relations in the network firm?), (2017) 72 Relations industrielles/industrial Relations 479-500. 5. Urwana Coiquaud and Isabelle Martin (equal authorship), "The expression of religious convictions at work: freedom of religion and the duty to accommodate in Canada", 2016/3 English Electronic Edition of Revue de Droit comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale 92-104, translation and re-issuing of "L expression des convictions religieuses au travail : liberté de religion et obligation d accommodement au Canada", 2016/2 Revue de Droit comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale 78-89. 6. Isabelle Martin, "Prendre la puissance économique au sérieux : jalons pour une appréhension relationnelle des contrats au sein des réseaux de production" (Taking economic power seriously: markers for a relational understanding of contracts within production networks), (2016) 57 Cahiers de droit 55-97. 7. Isabelle Martin, "Corporate Social Responsibility as Work Law? A Critical Assessment in the Light of the Principle of Human Dignity", (2015) 19 Canadian Journal of Employment and Labour Law 255-286. This article was awarded a special commendation at the 2014 Marco Biagi Award of the International Association of Labour Law Journals in July 2014. 8. Isabelle Martin, "Tying it all Together: the Potential of Legal, Social and Marketbased Control Mechanisms to Enforce Integrated and Sustainable Decision- Making", (2014-2015) 44 Revue générale de droit 353-389. 2
Chapters 1. Guylaine Vallée and Isabelle Martin, update of "Fourniture du travail convenu: détermination, modification et suspension de la prestation de travail" (Performance of the work agreed upon: determining, modifying or suspending the work), in JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit du travail," Rapports individuels et collectifs du travail, fasc. 22, Montréal, Lexis Nexis Canada, updated on June 1, 2017 (published in September 2017). 2. Isabelle Martin, "Corporate Governance Structures and Practices: From Ordeal to Opportunities and Challenges for Transnational Labour Law, in Adelle Blackett & Anne Trebilcock, eds., Handbook on Transnational Labour Law, Edward Elgar Research Handbook Series, Cheltenham (UK), 2015, pp. 51-64. 3. Isabelle Martin, "L'efficience ou la quête de neutralité normative au cœur de l'analyse économique du droit" (Efficiency or the quest for normative neutrality as the focus of law and economics analysis) in Stéphane Rousseau and Jean-Guy Belley, ed., Juriste au-delà des frontières (Lawyers across borders), Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2015, pp. 19-48. Conferences, seminars, academic or professional events Refereed papers 2016-2017 1. I. Martin et M. Choko, speakers, «A Comparative Perspective on the Right to Human Dignity: a Key to Address Poor Working Conditions?», Labour Law Research Network 3 rd conference, 26 juin 2017, Toronto. 2. I. Martin et U. Coiquaud, speakers, «Alternative Dispute Resolution and Labour Law: Glossing over the Power Imbalance between Workers and Employers?», Labour Law Research Network 3 ème conference, 26 juin 2017, Toronto. 2015-2016 3. I. Martin, speaker, "The Use of Transnational Labour Law in Steering Socially Responsible Corporate Governance toward Increased Worker Protection in Transnational Businesses", seminar entitled: Theorizing Transnational Business Governance Interactions: Designs, Structures, Mechanisms and Impacts, 17 May 2016, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. 4. I. Martin, speaker, Canadian Council of International Law, 44 th Annual Conference, speaker, "Corporate Governance Structures and Practices: From Ordeal to Opportunities and Challenges for Transnational Labor Law", 7 November 2015, Ottawa. 2014-2015 5. I. Martin, speaker, 2 nd Labour Law Research Network Conference, "The Many Uses of Labour Law in Navigating the Troubled Waters of Socially Responsible Corporate Governance", 26 June 2015, Amsterdam. 3
6. I. Martin, speaker, CRIMT 2015 International Conference, "Prendre l inégalité de pouvoir au sérieux : jalons pour l analyse du pouvoir économique dans le contrat de travail" (Taking power imbalance seriously: markers for analyzing economic power in the work contract), 21 May 2015, Montréal. 2013-2014 7. I. Martin, speaker, Law and Society Annual Meeting 2014, "Corporate Social Responsibility as Work Law? A Critical Assessment using the Principle of Human Dignity", 31 May 2014, Minneapolis. 2012-2013 8. I. Martin, speaker, Labour Law Research Network Inaugural Conference, "Back to Basics: Critically Assessing CSR as Work Law in Network Firms through the Principle of Human Dignity", 13 June 2013, Barcelona. 9. I. Martin, speaker, Canadian Law and Economics Association, "The Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility at the function of Judicial, Social and Market Control", 29 September 2012, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto. Non-referred papers 1. Isabelle Martin (co-auteure) and Gilles Trudeau, (speaker), «Conflict Resolution on Rights Disputes in Collective Settings», Joint Canada-China Labour Mediator and Arbitrator Capacity Building Project, Nanjing Pilot Training Program, November 17 th 2017, Nanjing, China. 2. Isabelle Martin (co-auteure) and Gilles Trudeau (speaker), «Conflict Resolution on Rights Disputes in Collective Settings», Nanjing University Law Scool, November 16 th 2017, Nanjing, China. 3. Urwana Coiquaud, Isabelle Martin (co-auteure) and Gilles Trudeau (speaker), «Dealing with Disparities of Power in the Mediation Process», Joint Canada- China Labour Mediator and Arbitrator Capacity Building Project, Joint Canada- China Labour Mediator and Arbitrator Capacity Building Project, Nanjing Pilot Training Program, November 15 th 2017, Nanjing, China. 4. Isabelle Martin and Gilles Trudeau, speakers, «Conflict Resolution on Rights Disputes in Collective Settings», Joint Canada-China Labour Mediator and Arbitrator Capacity Building Project, Visit of a delegation from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People s Republic of China, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail, October 17 th 2017 Montreal, Canada. 5. Urwana Coiquaud and Isabelle Martin (speaker), «Dealing with Disparities of Power in the Mediation Process», Joint Canada-China Labour Mediator and Arbitrator Capacity Building Project, Visit of a delegation from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People s Republic of China, 4
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail, Montréal, October 16 th 2017, Montreal, Canada. Course load 1. REI 3345-Arbitrage des griefs (Grievance arbitration), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Industrial Relations, Undergraduate level. 2. REI 2305A Aspects juridiques du lien d emploi (Legal aspects of the employment relationship), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Industrial Relations, Undergraduate level. 3. DRI 6115- Protection de l emploi (Employment protection), Faculty of Law/School of Industrial Relations (Joint microprogram in labour law), Graduate level. 5