Alan Bogg
Professor of Labour Law
Alan received his undergraduate and graduate education in Oxford, being awarded his BA in Law (first class) in 1997. Thereafter, he was awarded the degrees of BCL (first class) and DPhil. Following a period as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Alan returned to Oxford in 2003 to take up his fellowship at Hertford College. Alan's research focuses predominantly on theoretical issues in domestic, European and International labour law. His book 'The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition' was published in 2009 by Hart Publishing. It was awarded the SLS Peter Birks' Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010. The book has been reviewed in the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Industrial Law Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Law in Context, Industrial Relations Journal (UK), Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia), Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and Canadian Journal of Employment and Labour Law. Additionally, his work in labour law has been published in a wide variety of international journals. He is currently coordinating a Leverhulme International Research Network with Professor Tonia Novitz at the University of Bristol following the successful award of a large scale grant. Details of the network's activities can be found here: www.voicesatwork.org.uk. The network includes academics from Stanford, Osgoode Hall, and Monash Universities. Additionally, current research projects include: the intersection between migrant status and labour rights; European Social Dialogue and theories of deliberative democracy; and the constitutionalisation of freedom of association in comparative perspective. His work has been cited by Advocate Generals in the Court of Justice of the European Union in respect of working time regulation. Most recently, his work was cited with approval by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on the issue of sham contracts of employment in Autoclenz v Belcher. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights.
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Journal Articles
2012
A Bogg and K D Ewing, 'A Muted Voice at Work? Collective Bargaining in the Supreme Court of Canada' (2012) Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal (forthcoming)
A Bogg and T Novitz, 'Investigating \\\\\\\'Voice\\\\\\\' at Work' (2012) Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal (forthcoming)
A Bogg, 'Michael Sandel and Trade Union Rights' (2012) International Union Rights (forthcoming)
A Bogg, 'Sham Self-Employment in the Supreme Court' (2012) forthcoming Industrial Law Journal
A Bogg, 'The Death of Statutory Union Recognition in the United Kingdom' (2012) Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia) (forthcoming)
2011
A Bogg, 'Good Faith in the Contract of Employment: A Case of the English Reserve?' (2011) 32 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 729 [...]
A theoretical analysis of the concept of good faith in the personal employment contract (approx 15,000 words)
ISBN: 1095-6654
2010
A Bogg, 'Bournemouth University v Buckland: Re-establishing Orthodoxy at the Expense of Coherence?' (2010) Industrial Law Journal 408
A Bogg, 'Of Holidays, Work, and Humanisation: A Missed Opportunity?' (2010) European Current Law xi
2009
A Bogg, 'New Labour, Trade Unions, and the Liberal State' (2009) 20 King's Law Journal 403 [...]
An analysis of liberal theory and its application in the context of trade union legislation, using this as an intepretive framework for analysing post-1997 legislative developments in collective labour law (12,500 words)
ISBN: 0961-5768
A Bogg, 'Of Holidays, Work and Humanisation: A Missed Opportunity?' (2009) European Law Review [...]
An analysis of the humanisation principle in European working time regulation, and its specific regulatory effects (c 8,500 words)
A Bogg, 'The Mouse that Never Roared: Unfair Practices and Union Recognition' (2009) Industrial Law Journal [...]
A critical analysis of the CAC's jurisprudence dealing with the new unfair practice jurisdiction under the Schedule A1 recognition procedure (6,500 words)
2007
A Bogg, 'Paid Annual Leave and the Long-Term Sick: Third Time Lucky for the United Kingdom?' (2007) September Industrial Law Journal [...]
6000 words -analysis of the interaction between paid annual leave and contractual sub-employment mode
ISBN: 03059332
2006
A Bogg, 'Politics, Community, Democracy: Appraising CAC Decision-Making in the First Five Years' (2006) 35(3) Industrial Law Journal 245
A Bogg, 'The right to paid annual leave in the Court of Justice: the eclipse of functionalism' (2006) 31 European LR 892 [...]
Analysis of ECJ decision in Robinson-Steele, incorporating broader analytical perspective on the ECJ's interpretive approach under Working Time Directive (approx 8000 words)
ISBN: 03075400
A Bogg, 'Worker Representation in Collective Bargaining: Voluntarism in the UK' (2006) December Electronic Journal of Comparative Law [...]
Substantial critique of the persistence of the historical ideology of voluntarism in contemporary patterns of worker representation in the United Kingdom, placed in comparative perspective (approx 13000 words).
ISBN: 13873091
2005
A Bogg, 'Employment Relations Act 2004: Another False Dawn for Collectivism?' (2005) 34(1) Industrial Law Journal 72
2004
A Bogg, 'Review of' (2004) British Journal of Industrial Relations [...]
Book review
2003
A Bogg and J Stanton-Ife, 'Protecting the Vulnerable: legality, harm and theft' (2003) 23(3) Legal Studies 402
2002
A Bogg, 'In Defence of Correlativity' (2002) Ratio Juris [...]
Analysis of Raz's theory of authority in the context of mistaken legal directives
ISBN: 09521917
2001
A Bogg, 'The Political Theory of Trade Union Recognition Campaigns: Legislating for Democratic Competitiveness' (2001) 64(6) Modern Law Review 875
Books
2009
A Bogg, The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition (Hart 2009)
Chapters
2012
A Bogg and J Herring, 'Addiction and Responsibility' in Herring, Regan, Weinberg and Withington (eds), Intoxication: Problematic Pleasures (Routledge 2012)
A Bogg and T Novitz, 'Recognition in Respect of Bargaining in the United Kingdom: Collective Autonomy and Political Neutrality in Context' in B Creighton and A Forsyth (eds), Exploring Collective Bargaining (Routledge 2012)
Case Notes
2010
A Bogg, 'Sham self-employment in the Court of Appeal' (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 166 [...]
Analyses recent Court of Appeal developments on the concept of sham terms in personal employment contracts
Others
2007
A Bogg, 'Memorandum on Flexicurity and Working Time' (2007) House of Lords European Union Committee, Modernising European Union labour law: has the UK anything to gain? 22nd Report of 2006-07 115
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: Criminal Law; Labour/Employment Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Labour Law, Criminal Law
