Professor Tony Posser
Tony Prosser’s interests are regulation, both economic and social. For example, his book 'The Regulatory Enterprise' had a chapter on the Health and Safety Executive, and he has also studied rail franchising as a form of regulation, and one which has been central to recent industrial action on the railways.

Professor Oliver Quick
Oliver Quick is interested in law and regulation within the health care workplace. He has a special interest in patient safety and how various legal mechanisms impact on the ability of professionals and organisations to deliver safer care. This includes the work of professional regulators (such as the General Medical Council) and the use of civil and criminal law as a response to failure of medical work. His recently published monograph 'Regulating Patient Safety: the End of Professional Dominance' (CUP, 2017) explores the experiences of healthcare professionals who have raised concerns about safety problems at work.

Dr Roseanne Russell
Roseanne Russell is a lecturer in law whose research focuses on labour law, corporate governance and gender equality. She is particularly interested in women’s treatment, progression and representation within the corporate workplace. Her latest publication explores corporate governance and transnational business feminism, to be published in Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (2018, Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on two research projects: the first explores unconscious bias and whether the law should provide a remedy for the harms it causes, the second examines multi-national companies and their engagement with gender empowerment projects.

Dr Gregory Schwartz
My research looks at a number of issues crosscutting the problem of work and global political economy, focussing specifically on social transformations in eastern Europe in the context of European integration. My current research project looks at the nexus between social reproduction and labour migration, examining a range of social problems concerning Polish and Ukrainian migrant workers in the UK and Germany employed in the food, housing and care sectors. . I have worked with Ukrainian and Polish trade unions, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in both countries as well as contribute to the ILO’s Regulating for DecentWork Network to share knowledge and better inform policy at national and transnational levels.

Professor Yana Stimutina
Yana Simutina is a Senior Research Fellow at Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Professor of Labour Law at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. Her research interests encompass labour law and social rights in the digital era, non-standard forms of working, and the scope of labour law in the gig economy. Since the 1st of September 2022, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Bristol Law School for two years under the Researches at Risk Fellowships Programme established by the UK National Academies with Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics). Her current project examines martial law’s impact on labour rights and relations, in particular, the experience of Ukraine after the russian invasion on the 24th of February 2022.

Professor Philip Syrpis
Phil Syrpis is an EU lawyer, interested in EU internal market law, and in particular in the relationship between 'the economic' and 'the social' in that context.

Dr Asma Vranaki
Asma Vranaki is law lecturer at the University of Bristol. She is an empirical scholar who interrogates the links between law, society and innovative digital technologies. In particular, she is interested in the legal and regulatory challenges raised by the Gig Economy including worker status, zero contract hours and the obligations of employers in the ‘on-demand’ economy.

Professor Charlotte Villiers
Professor Charlotte Villiers specialises in Company Law and Corporate Governance and she also has an interest in Labour and Employment Law. In her early career she qualified as a Solicitor, and specialised in Employment Law at Clifford Chance in London, having trained at Simmons & Simmons. She moved to the University of Sheffield for her first academic position and worked also at the University of Glasgow and as a visiting professor at the University of Oviedo before joining the University of Bristol Law School. Her research interests cover all aspects of company law and corporate governance, and she focuses also on the interactions between company law and labour law. She has been involved in several international research projects, including the Company Law and Sustainability research project which was led by the University of Oslo. She is a Member of the Daughters of Themis Women Business Scholars Network and is a founding Member of the Sustainability Law Research Group based at the University of Oslo.

Dr Yefan Xu
Yefan Xu is interested in Company Law and Corporate Governance, in particular, worker participation in company decision-making process by conducting doctrinal, social-legal and comparative research between different legal systems. Yefan completed PhD in Law and Master of International Commercial Law at the University of Bristol, and obtained her Bachelor of International Economic Law from the Dalian Maritime University. Recently, Yefan successfully presented a case study on Royal Mail at the SLS 2024 Conference. The case study shows how company law, corporate governance and labour law interact and the paper reflects on a liberal regulatory corporate governance framework which still, in practice, ensures that short-term shareholder value is the guiding force and the workforce and other stakeholders are given little more than tokenistic respect.

Student Members

Thomas Carr
Thomas is an ESRC-funded student undertaking socio-legal doctoral research as part of an SWDTP supported studentship. He holds an LLM in Labour Law and Corporate Governance and an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies, fr

Maggie Fannon
Maggie Fannon is a PhD student researching sex work and labour law through a Marxist-feminist lens. Her thesis looks into the potential for improving sex workers’ working conditions using the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. She has taught in the areas of employment law and contract law.

Lara Farrell
Lara is a socio-legal scholar whose doctoral research interests lie in the political economy of labour unfreedom, worker voice and participatory methodologies. Lara is currently working with Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), overseeing a Participatory Action Research project with workers in precarious employment across several sectors in the UK. The project aims to support and empower workers to gather evidence on exploitation and engage in policy advocacy.

Stuart Hurst
Stu completed his undergraduate studies in Law at Lancaster University in 2020, masters in Employment, Work, and Equality Law at the University of Bristol in 2022, and masters in Human Resources Management and Industrial Relations at the University of Manchester in 2024. His doctoral research looks at the rights of employees and the responsibilities of employers with regard to mental ill health and psychosocial risk in the workplace.

Maja Rogozik
Maja Rogozik is a European Union law teaching assistant and PhD student. She holds a Master of Laws from the National University of Singapore. Her doctorate research focuses on the comparative analysis of labour and migration laws in the UK and Singapore. Specifically, she focuses on gender related issues and women's rights.

Diego Villavicencio
Diego Villavicencio-Pinto is a lawyer and completed a Master in Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Talca (Chile, 2021). Prior to his arrival in Bristol, he worked as a lecturer in labour law in Chile (UCSH). His research interests are related to the labour phenomenon analysed from a multidisciplinary approach. He is currently conducting his doctoral research on the right to profit-sharing and its effects on the labour identity of workers.

Advisory Board

Professor Anne Davies
Anne Davies is the Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty and Professor of Law and Public Policy. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law. Her current research focuses on job security and issues surrounding casual work and working time.

Professor Keith Ewing
Professor Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London. He has written extensively on labour law including recognition procedures and international standards. He is also the President of the Institute of Employment Rights.

Professor Judy Fudge
Professor Judy Fudge is a Professor in the School for Labour Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 for her contribution to labour law scholarship. Her research interests include labour and employment law (Canadian, UK, European, and International), immigration and work, precarious work and human rights and citizenship at work. She is currently working on a project on unfree labour , modern slavery and labour exploitation that explores the relationship between legal characterization and jurisdiction and capitalist labour markets. Recent publications relating to this project include: ‘Why Labour Lawyers Should Care About the Modern Slavery Act 2015’, King'sLaw Journal, (2019) DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2018.1549699 ‘Illegal Working, Migrants and Labour Exploitation in the UK’ 38(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 557-584 (2018).

Julia Lopez
Julia Lopez is Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and researcher in the research group for labour and social security law GREDTiSS. She is also member of the steering committee of the Labour Law Research Network and has recently participated in research projects on precarious work and social rights led by the Working Lives Research Institute (London Metropolitan University).

Dr Jason Moyer-Lee
Jason Moyer-Lee currently works as a Visiting Professor at University College London. He has formerly worked as the Director of Labor Standards at the Maine Department of Labor. Before that, he has spent just under a decade in the trade union movement, including over seven years in elected leadership roles at the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), a leading trade union for precarious, “gig economy”, and migrant workers. During that time membership grew from a few hundred to over 5,400 (including cleaners, foster care workers, Uber drivers, couriers, video game workers, and others). Jason developed and oversaw the union's strategic litigation, which included bringing cases over (limb b) worker status as well as cases challenging the government on workers' rights. Jason Moyer-Lee is a Practitioner Fellow at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and he is writing a book on effective activism.

Hannah Reed
Hannah Reed is the Co-ordinator of Constitutional Affairs at Unite the Union. Before that she was the National Officer and Team Leader in the Employment Relations Department at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Before joining the RCN, Hannah worked at the TUC and was responsible for developing and promoting TUC policy on individual employment rights and trade union rights in the UK and the EU. Hannah served on the ILC Committee on the Application of Standards (2017-18) and is a former Member of the UK Gangmasters Licensing Authority Board. She is a member of the Executive Committee at the Institute of Employment Rights and has served on the Executive Committee Member of the Industrial Law Society.

Associate Members

Professor Alysia Blackham
Professor Alysia Blackham is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne and a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at Melbourne Law School. Alysia’s research interests centre on age discrimination law and the consequences of ageing for workplaces, using empirical evidence to cast new light on legal problems. Alysia’s current research considers the way technology might address or exacerbate inequality at work.

Ricardo Buendia-Esteban
Ricardo is currently a Lecturer and Course Director in Employment Law at the University of Manchester. Ricardo is also a trained Chilean lawyer in labour law (non-practising). He holds an LLM in Economic Law from the University of Chile School of Law and an LLM in International Law from the Universities of Chile and Heidelberg. Ricardo also holds a PhD from the University of Bristol Law School. His main research areas are UK and EU labour and competition law.

Serena Crawshay-Williams
Serena studied Law at the University of Bristol. She previously worked as a research assistant on domestic and comparative employment law for Alan Bogg. She is currently a barrister at Old Square Chambers where she has a particular focus on employment law.

Natalia Delgado
Dr. Natalia Delgado is a lecturer at the Law School, University of Southampton. Her research combines International Law, Labour Law, and Political Economy. Natalia obtained her LLB and qualified as a barrister in Argentina and graduated with a Master's in International and European Law from the University of Geneva. She has a background working with trade unions, union federations, and the International Labour Organization. She completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her dissertation analysed how the ILO, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund have conceptualised labour since the 1970s.

Franz Christian Ebert
Franz is a Research Officer in Labour Law at the Research Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. His research is located at the intersection of transnational labour law, economic governance, and human rights law. Previously, he worked for nine years as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and was a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Franz was also a visiting researcher at Columbia Law School and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He has advised several international organisations, governments, and civil society organizations and has appeared before committees of the European Parliament and the German Parliament.

Dr Gabrielle Golding
Dr Gabrielle Golding is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The University of Adelaide. She is an internationally recognised researcher and commentator on employment and contract law. Her latest work includes 'Shaping Contracts for Work: The Normative Influence of Terms Implied by Law' (Oxford University Press, 2023), which was shortlisted for the UK Society of Legal Scholars 2024 Peter Birks Prizes.

Ioannis Katsaroumpas
Ioannis is a Senior Researcher in European Social and Labour Law at the European Trade Union Institute and a Senior Lecturer in Employment Law at the University of Sussex. He holds an LL.B (First Class) from University of Athens and an M. Jur, M. Phil (Distinction) and D. Phil in Law from University of Oxford. Ioannis has undertaken research in the field of collective labour rights at national, comparative, European and international levels and has been the author (or co-author) of reports for the European Parliament, ILO and ETUI. His current research focuses on labour rights and authoritarianism and the EU acquis on information and consultation.

Polly Lord
Polly Lord is a socio-legal researcher and associate at Frederick Place Chambers, a specialist labour law chambers in Bristol. Her main research interests lie in agricultural labour and the application of statutory employment law rights in practice. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature and she uses a range of empirical and theoretical techniques drawn from the social sciences to evaluate the effectiveness of law and policy.

Jack Meakin
Jack is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. He was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol having completed his PhD in Law at the University of Glasgow. His research interests sit at the intersection between legal/constitutional theory, socio-legal studies, and labour law. His most recent work draws on legal theoretical and socio-legal insights to comprehend how labour movements use law strategically in the context of industrial relations. In August 2022, he will begin a two-year ESRC New Investigator Grant, undertaking research on the project: ‘TRACTION Trasnnational Labour Constitutionalism: Strategic Litigation and the Constitutional Protection of Work.’

Inga Thiemann
Inga Thiemann works as an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. She is a socio-legal scholar whose main research focus is in the areas of sex work and trafficking for sexual exploitation, as well as feminised labour, care work and domestic work, as well as the interplay of migration law and labour exploitation. Her work uses a combination of theoretical, empirical and doctrinal methods. She is currently running a qualitative pilot study for her new project, in which she explores avenues of reconciling sex workers’ regulatory needs and preferences with existing legal concepts in employment and self-employment regulation. In the pilot, she addresses this issue in the Israeli context, as part of a visiting fellowship at TraffLab, Tel Aviv University.

Darcy du Toit
Darcy du Toit is an Emeritus Professor of the University of the Western Cape and former Dean of Law, currently acting as research coordinator of the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work in the University’s Faculty of Law and a consultant at Bradley Conradie Halton Cheadle Attorneys in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his BA, LLB degrees at the University of Cape Town and his doctorate at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He has published in South Africa and other countries on various aspects of employment and labour law, focusing most recently on domestic work, strike law, discrimination law and work in the digital economy in a context of promoting social justice.

Alex Wood
Alex is an Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the impact of technology on labour relations and labour markets. His most recent research has investigated worker voice, organisation and collective action in the gig economy as part of the iLabour project at the University of Oxford. Previously he researched the impact of platform work and the gig economy on Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia as part of the “Microwork and Virtual Production Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia” project. His PhD in sociology (University of Cambridge, 2016) focused on the consequences of precarious scheduling for working conditions and workplace control and is published by Cornell University Press as 'Despotism On Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace.

Charles Wynn-Evans
Charles Wynn-Evans is a partner at and International General Counsel of Dechert LLP, having specialised since qualification as a solicitor in 1992 in employment law, advising both employers and employees. He previously served as a fee paid employment judge and deputy chair of the Central Arbitration Committee. He read law at the University of Bristol, studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law at Merton College, Oxford, and in 2022, supervised by Professor Alan Bogg, was awarded a Ph.D by published work by the University of Bristol. He has written extensively for both academic and practitioner publications on a wide variety of labour and employment law issues with a particular focus on transfer of undertakings legislation and is the author of “The Law of TUPE Transfers” (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2022).