This Article analyzes the potential impact of the European Commission’s proposed “European Green Deal” on labor rights, in particular the rights of workers in lower-income EU Member States. It focuses on environmental measures, already part of the EU’s existing environmental policies and further contemplated in the Green Deal, which prohibit or tax certain polluting production processes. Such measures, insofar as they apply uniformly to traded-good industries, are likely to make firms in lower-income EU Member States less competitive and harm their workers’ rights to work and to fair wages. Thus, even though these environmental measures are worth pursuing for the benefits they procure, the distribution of their costs is likely to run afoul of egalitarian norms. This Article puts forward an institutionalist approach to trade theory which recognizes that competitiveness is legally constructed. It argues on the basis of that theory that lower-income countries should be allowed to adopt ambitious industrial policies and subsidize their firms to insulate workers from the disruptions caused by added environmental regulatory costs. More broadly, this Article presents an agenda to pursue radical environmental transformation while remedying, or at least not worsening, inequalities between workers and citizens in the EU.

Au Canada, et dans plusieurs autres pays occidentaux, les crimes d'honneur ont récemment fait l'objet d'une prolifération de discours au coeur desquels se trouve souvent l'idée d'un Occident civilisé opposé à des droits orientaux figés, rétrogrades. Or, la violence au nom de l'honneur n'est pas étrangère aux droits occidentaux et au droit canadien. Dans cet article, nous retraçons les migrations des crimes d'honneur de l'Occident à l'Orient et vice versa pour établir une généalogie de ce phénomène. Ensuite, nous nous attardons à la « défense de provocation », une institution juridique occidentale qui fait parfois resurgir l'honneur comme motif d'homicide à l'occasion de crimes dits passionnels. À partir de cette analyse de l'hybridité juridique, nous en appelons à une fructueuse rencontre des théories postcoloniales et du droit comparé et à une compréhension plus fine de la violence faite aux femmes. Crimes d'honneur-Droit pénal-Postcolonialisme-Transplantations juridiques-Canada-Jordanie-Pakistan.  Summary Comparative Law and Gendered Violence: Journey to the Heart of Narration and Identity In Canada, as throughout most of the geopolitical West, honor crimes have recently been the object of proliferating discourses that reify the notion of "Oriental" law as inherently contrary, even antithetical, to "civilized" Canadian law. Yet honor is no foreign notion to Western (and Canadian) law. In this article, we outline how socio-legal hybridity manifests itself in the notion of honor crimes, a category which long existed in the West and often travelled to the East. Then, we explore the (Western) "provocation defense," an institution historically rooted in male honor and whose concrete impact in Canada has sometimes been to uphold bruised honor as a motive for homicide. We close our analysis of legal hybridity by calling for a fruitful encounter between comparative law and postcolonial theory and for a better understanding of gendered violence.

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