Professor Alan Bogg appointed as Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Alan Bogg has been appointed as Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States, succeeding Professor Sandra Fredman. Professor Bogg is currently Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol and will take up his post at Oxford in January 2027. He will be a fellow of Pembroke College. 

Professor Bogg joined Bristol Law School in 2017, having previously been Professor of Labour Law at Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College. He has broad teaching and research interests in the general fields of labour, employment and work laws. His recent work has used political philosophy to explore the potential and limits of equal citizenship in the workplace. He has also published a recent OUP monograph on the freedom of association. 

"I am excited to be joining the community at the Law Faculty and supporting its commitment to the highest ideals of legal scholarship and legal education," said Professor Bogg, who is also a Barrister at Old Square Chambers and Deputy Chair at the Central Arbitration Committee. "It is a particular pleasure given that it has such a distinguished history in the development of labour law. It is an honour to have the opportunity to serve the Faculty and to be part of that continuing story." 

Professor Bogg's monograph, The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition, was awarded the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010. In 2014, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Law in recognition of his international profile and achievements as a scholar of labour law. His academic work has been cited in the United Kingdom Supreme Court (on sham contracts, the illegality doctrine, and collective bargaining rights), the Supreme Court of Canada (on the constitutional right to collective bargaining), and the European Court of Justice (on working time and paid annual leave).  

He is on the editorial committees of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Industrial Law Journal and the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. He is also a general editor of the OUP Oxford Labour Law series.