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EU Law in the Member States is a new series dedicated to exploring the impact of landmark CJEU judgments and secondary legislation in legal systems across the European Union. Each book will be written by a team of generalist EU lawyers and experts in the relevant field, bringing together perspectives from a wide range of different Member States in order to compare and analyse the effect of EU law on domestic legal systems and practice.
The first volume focuses on the uneasy relationship between the economic freedoms enshrined in Articles 49 and 56 TFEU and the right of workers to take collective action. This conflict has been at the forefront of EU labour law since the CJEU's much-discussed decisions in C-438/05 Viking and C-341/04 Laval, as well as the Commission's more recent attempts at legislative reforms in the failed Monti II Regulation. Viking, Laval and Beyond explores judicial and legislative responses to these measures in 10 Member States, and finds that the impact on domestic legal systems has been much more varied than traditional accounts of EU law would suggest.
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Discussed in R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor, UKSC 2015/233: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0233.html
Coverage in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21719825-charging-employees-bring-employment-tribunalseven-if-they-winerodes-their-legal
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Reprinted with corrections (2015); Paperback (2016)
Employment law struggles to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work and service companies to corporate groups and Private Equity investors. This book argues that the cause of this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions: English law searches for the unitary counterparty to a bilateral contract of employment by reference to a series of multi-functional tests. As a result of this tension, full employment law coverage is restricted to the narrow scenario where a single legal entity exercises all employer functions⎯a paradigm far from the fragmented reality of modern labour markets.
These problems can only be addressed by a careful reconceptualization leading to the development of a functional concept of the employer. The book draws on existing models in English and European law to develop a definition of the employer as the entity, or combination of entities, exercising functions regulated in a particular domain of employment law. Each strand of the received concept of the employer is examined in turn to demonstrate how this more openly multifunctional approach can successfully overcome the rigidities of the current notion without abandoning a coherent underlying framework. The book fills a crucial gap in employment law and corporate law by exposing the defects in our current understanding of the employer and by developing a new functional concept appropriate for both traditional and emerging work arrangements.
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- Future Directions in EU Labour Law
- Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for English Law
- iMANAGE - Rethinking Employment Law for a World of Algorithmic Management
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Jeremias Adams-Prassl wins a Philip Leverhulme prize

Launch of a New Report: Building a Justice Data Infrastructure

Jeremias Adams-Prassl awarded €1.5m by the ERC for research into AI in the workplace

Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl on the gig economy in times of COVID-19

‘Access to Judgments and Justice Data’ workshop

Jeremias Adams-Prassl speaks at OECD conference on Social Dialogue and the Future of Work

Recognition of Distinction Awards 2019

Jeremias Prassl wins the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize

Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law Launch Conference

Research grant awarded for project exploring the potential of AI for English Law

Research by Abi Adams and Jeremias Prassl wins ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize

Jeremias Prassl and Abi Adams win MLR Wedderburn Prize

Law Faculty Success at Excellence in Impact Awards
Blog posts by Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Uber: the Future of Work… Or Just Another Taxi Company?
By Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Magdalen College
Oxford Business Law BlogAre Uber, Mechanical Turk, and other ‘Crowdwork’ Platforms Employers?
By Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Magdalen College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Are Uber, Mechanical Turk, and other ‘Crowdwork’ Platforms Employers?
By Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Magdalen College
Research Collection: Law and Technology
Work in the Gig Economy: TaskRabbit, Uber &Co as Employers?
By Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Magdalen College
Commercial Law CentreWork in the Gig Economy: TaskRabbit, Uber &Co as Employers?
By Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Magdalen College
Oxford Business Law Blog
To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the boundaries and connections between labour law and other legal disciplines such as company law, competition law, contract law and public law; labour law and legal methodologies such as reflexive governance and comparative law and labour law and other disciplines such as ethics, economics and political philosophy. In so doing, it represents a cross-section of the most sophisticated current work at the cutting edge of labour law theory.