Kerry Rittich

Kerry Rittich is Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law and international institutions, law and development, human rights, labour law, and critical and feminist theory. Among her publications are Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2005), Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform(The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002)(with Joanne Conaghan, University of Kent), and numerous articles and book chapters. In 2004, she completed a report for the Law Commission of Canada entitled, Vulnerable Workers: Legal and Policy Issues in the New Economy. Rittich has been the Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard Law School and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, as well as a fellow at the European University Institute. Before entering academia, she served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Rittich obtained an LL.B. from the University of Alberta and an S.J.D. from Harvard University.