BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Law in World Affairs program at the Moynihan Institute of G lobal Affairs presents a virtual talk with Filiz Kahraman\, associate prof essor of political science\, University of Toronto.Filiz Kahraman will pre sent her new book\, Labor in Hard Times: Workers’ Legal Mobilization at th e European Court of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press\, 2026)\, whi ch examines how organized labor in Turkey and the United Kingdom turned to international human rights law in response to domestic repression and neo liberal restructuring. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and an original data base of labor rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights\, the book analyzes how workers used international litigation not just to win l egal victories\, but to build political pressure\, assert legitimacy and r eclaim space for collective action. Focusing on public sector unionists in Turkey and blacklisted construction workers in the UK\, it explores how g rassroots activists and lawyers mobilized international law as a tactical resource: Workers engaged rights discourse strategically to pursue concret e goals\, while remaining rooted in class-based solidarity. The lecture wi ll reflect on these findings to discuss the changing strategies of labor m ovements in an era of democratic backsliding and backlash against internat ional institutions. \;This even is cosponsored by the Center for Europ ean Studies.Filiz Kahraman is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. She received a Ph.D. at the University of Washi ngton and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mortara Center for Interna tional Studies at Georgetown University. Her research on law and politics has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, awarded the ISA’s Best Dissertation in Human Rights prize\, and received an article award fr om the Law and Society Association. Her work has appeared in \;Annual Review of Law and Social Science\, \;Law and Society Review\, \;La w &\; Social Inquiry\, and the \;European Journal of International Relations\, and \;Perspectives on Politics. DTEND:20261026T213000Z DTSTAMP:20261006T013303Z DTSTART:20261026T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Kahraman | Labor in Hard Times: Workers’ Legal Mobilization at the European Court of Human Rights UID:RFCALITEM639268327837688223 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Law in World Affairs program at the Moy nihan Institute of Global Affairs presents a virtual talk with Filiz Kahra man\, associate professor of political science\, University of Toronto.

Filiz Kahraman will present her new book\, Labor in Hard Times: Wo rkers’ Legal Mobilization at the European Court of Human Rights (Camb ridge University Press\, 2026)\, which examines how organized labor in Tur key and the United Kingdom turned to international human rights law in res ponse to domestic repression and neoliberal restructuring.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and an original database of labor rights cases befo re the European Court of Human Rights\, the book analyzes how workers used international litigation not just to win legal victories\, but to build p olitical pressure\, assert legitimacy and reclaim space for collective act ion. Focusing on public sector unionists in Turkey and blacklisted constru ction workers in the UK\, it explores how grassroots activists and lawyers mobilized international law as a tactical resource: Workers engaged right s discourse strategically to pursue concrete goals\, while remaining roote d in class-based solidarity. The lecture will reflect on these findings to discuss the changing strategies of labor movements in an era of democrati c backsliding and backlash against international institutions. \;

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This even is cosponsored by the Center for European Studies.

Filiz Kahraman is associate professor of political science at the Universi ty of Toronto. She received a Ph.D. at the University of Washington and he ld a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mortara Center for International Studi es at Georgetown University. Her research on law and politics has been sup ported by the National Science Foundation\, awarded the ISA’s Best Dissert ation in Human Rights prize\, and received an article award from the Law a nd Society Association. Her work has appeared in \;Annual Review o f Law and Social Science\, \;Law and Society Review\,&nb sp\;Law &\; Social Inquiry\, and the \;European Journa l of International Relations\, and \;Perspectives on Politics .

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