Labour Law Discussion Group
About the Group
The Labour Law Discussion Group was set up in February 2008. We host regular discussions throughout the academic year on recent developments in labour law.
Convenors: Mimi Zou, Ioannis Skandalis
Senior members: Alan Bogg, Anne Davies
Previous Group Events
May 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013
- Paid annual leave - an inderogable right in EU employment law?
- Speaker: Professor Jeff Kenner, Professor of European Law, University of Nottingham
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
Tuesday 7 May
- Employee Shareholders - Modified Employment Status or Employment at Will?
- Speaker: Jeremias Prassl, University of Oxford
Brasenose College Lecture Room VII at 13:00
April 2013
Monday 22 April
- Migrants, unfree labour and the legal construction of domestic servitude: Migrant domestic workers in the UK
- Speaker: Professor Judy Fudge and Dr Kendra Strauss
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
February 2013
Tuesday 26 February
- Fundamental Rights in German Employment Law -Development, State of the Art, Perspectives-’
- Speaker: Professor Rüdiger Krause, Göttingen University
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
Friday 15 February
- Workplace – Democracy: Reclaiming the Effort to Foster Public – Private Isomorphism
- Speaker: Professor Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
June 2012
Tuesday 12 June 2012
- Labour Law or the Law of the Labour Market?
- Speaker: Dr. Ruth Dukes, University of Glasgow
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
Tuesday 5 June
- A plea for an employer (minimum) duty of disclosure
- Speaker: Aline Van Bever, Visiting Research Student - LSE
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
May 2012
Tuesday 22 May
- The concept of a social market economy and its impact on German labor law
- Speaker: Professor Dr. Horst Call, Employment and Commercial Law at Brunswick European Law School (BELS)
Brasenose College Lecture Room XI at 13:00
Monday 14 May
- The Social Right to Paid Annual Leave
- Speaker: Mr. Michael Ford, Old Square Chambers Barrister
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
February 2012
Wednesday 29 February
- The Legal Notion of the Employer
- Speaker: Proferssor Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
January 2012
Wednesday 25 January
- International regulation of maritime labour
- Speaker: Dr. Irini Papanicolopulu, Marie Curie Fellow and Senior Researcher in international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (currently on leave), where she has been teaching international law of natural resources, international law of armed conflicts and international law cases.
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
November 2011
Tuesday 22 November 2011
- Beyond the hukou: the regulatory spider-web that affects China'’s rural migrant workers
- Speaker: Mimi Zou, St John’s College & Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
Tuesday 1 November
- The impact of the recent Jivraj v Hashwani case on the definition of ‘employment’ for the purposes of equality law in the UK
- Speaker: Professor Christopher McCrudden, Professor McCrudden is currently William W. Cook Global Law Professor (currently on leave) and an elected fellow of the British Academy. Additionally, he is a barrister at the English Bar (Grays Inn), a Non-Resident Tenant at Blackstone Chambers and has been called to the Northern Ireland Bar.
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
February 2011
Tuesday 22 February
- Chinese Labour Law at a Critical Point in History
- Speaker: Mimi Zou, Bachelor of Civil Law Candidate, University of Oxford and Former Consultant, International Labour Organization China and Mongolia Office, Beijing
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
January 2011
Tuesday 25 January
- ‘On the judge’s couch: subconscious discrimination in the workplace’
- Speaker: Dr Sarah Wilkinson, Blackstone Chambers
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
December 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
- A Statutory Duty of Good Faith in the Employment Relationship
- Speaker: Gordon Anderson, Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and MacCormick Fellow, School of Law, University of Edinburgh (July 2010 to January 2011)
Hertford College Lower SCR at 12:30
November 2010
Tuesday 16 November
- Employee ownership in the European company: reflexive law, reincorporation and escaping codetermination
- Speaker: Dr, Wanjiru Njoya, CUF Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Wadham College
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
May 2010
Thursday 27 May
- Central Arbitration Committee
- Speaker: Professor Paul Davies , University Of Oxford
Exeter College at 13:00
Thursday 20 May
- Central Arbitration Committee
- Postponed
Speaker: Professor Paul L Davies, Fellow of Jesus College
Exeter College at 13:00
April 2010
Wednesday 28 April
- The Right to Strike
- Speaker: John Hendy QC, Barrister
Exeter College Rector Drawing Room at 17:30
- The Right to Strike
- Speaker: John Hendy QC
Exeter College Rector's Drawing Room at 17:30
March 2010
Monday 1 March
- The Agency Workers Regulations 2010
- Speaker: Dr. Anne Davies, Reader in Public Law, University of Oxford, Brasenose College
Exeter College Stapeldon Room at 13:00
February 2010
Monday 15 February
- Discussion
- Exeter College Stapeldon Room at 13:00
Monday 8 February
- Title to be confirmed
- Exeter College Stapeldon Room at 13:00
June 2009
Wednesday 10 June 2009
- Adjudicating discrimination in hard times
- Speaker: Dhaya Pillay, Labour Court Judge, South Africa
Exeter College 13.00
April 2009
Wednesday 29 April
- "The Mouse that Never Roared: Unfair Practices and Union Recognition"
- Speaker: Alan Bogg, Law Faculty, University of Oxford
Exeter College Stapledon Room at 13:00
March 2009
Wednesday 11 March
- Outsourcing and Transfer of Undertakings Directive
- Postponed
Speaker: Ioannis Skandalis, Trinity College
Exeter College Stapledon at 13:00
February 2009
Wednesday 18 February
- A Purposive Interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act
- Speaker: Dr Guy Davidov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Exeter College Stapledon at 13:00
Wednesday 11 February
- The judicial role in labour law drawing on the public law 'deference' literature
- Speaker: Dr Anne Davies, Brasenose College
Exeter College Stapledon at 13:00
January 2009
Wednesday 28 January
- The comparative methodology for analysing the law of personal work contracts
- Speaker: Professor Mark Freedland and Dr Nicola Countouris, University of Oxford
Exeter College Stapledon at 13:00
December 2008
Wednesday 3 December 2008
- Reappraising Kahn-Freund: The Coherence of collective Laissez-Faire
- Postponed
Speaker: Dr Alan Bogg, Hertford College - Oxford University
Exeter College Stapledon Room at 13:00
Tuesday 2 December
- The unfair dismissal aspects of the Employment Bill
- Change of date
Speaker: Astrid Sanders, DPhil student
Exeter College Stapledon Room at 13:00
February 2008
Tuesday 26 February
- The James case on agency work
- Speaker: Mark Freedland, Oxford University
Exeter College Stapledon Room at 13:00
