Jack Beadsworth

Jack is a labour lawyer specialising in the labour rights and human rights of temporary migrant workers. His research interests include labour exploitation and the role of legal structures, immigration law, the criminalisation of migrant labour, the administration of illegal work regimes, and the protection of migrants in international and regional human rights law. His work investigates the relationship between labour law and immigration law and its effect on the vulnerability of temporary migrant workers to exploitation. 

Jack is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights to the AHRC-funded Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, working on the 'Exploitation, Labour Rights, and the Law' project. He is also part of a project at UCL and the University Gloucestershire researching labour market non-compliance amongst precarious workers in the UK that was commissioned by the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, and has previously taught at UCL.

Jack has published his work in the Industrial Law Journal and the European Human Rights Law Review, and was awarded the Modern Law Review Scholarship in 2024. He holds a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, an LLM In Human Rights Law from the University of Bristol, and is in the final stages of his PhD at UCL. 

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.