People

• Dr Katie Bales
  Katie Bales is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol. Her research mainly focuses on labour law, welfare, and irregular migration. Specifically, Katie has researched into the legal implications of immigration raids in the workplace, the labour of immigration detainees, and the shortcomings of the Taylor Review. Katie’s most recent project centres on unfree forms of state enforced labour, including that of prison labour, workfare, community payback and immigration detention.
• Jule Mulder
  Jule Mulder is a European Comparative lawyer focusing on European Union law with inter alia social objectives, including equality, employment and consumer law. Her research focuses on the European influences on national systems of law and how it can challenge structural inequality and injustice. Within it, she is interested in the dialogue between the Court of Justice of the EU and the national courts of the EU Member States, and how this dialogue can positively support substantive rights and social development in the diverse national cultural context of the Member States. More recently, Jule has explored the EU concept of vulnerability as a cross-sectional concept to recognise and address injustice and exploitation.

• Dr Diego Acosta
  Diego Acosta’s work examines migration law at international, regional and national level. He analyses the legal construction of the foreigner through law, including the rights non-nationals obtain in the work sphere, mostly in Europe and South America.
• Professor Alan Bogg
  Alan Bogg joined the Bristol Law School in 2017 as Professor of Labour Law. Previously he was Professor of Labour Law in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His current research projects are examining freedom of association; common law fundamental rights; the role of criminalisation in work relations; and the future of the social democratic constitution.

• Dr Jennifer Collins
  Jennifer Collins researches in the area of criminal law and criminal justice. Her research adopts a doctrinal and theoretical approach to contemporary criminal law problems. Her research has focused on the role of criminalisation in work relations. Current research projects include the changing nature of fraud and the use of artificial technologies in the criminal justice system.
• Dr Katie Cruz
  Katie Cruz joined the law school in August 2016, having previously lectured at Keele University and the University of Leeds. She is a socio-legal scholar with a commitment to feminist and Marxist approaches to the law. Katie currently teaches undergraduate modules in Law & State, Sex, Gender and Law, and Socio-Legal Studies, and postgraduate modules in Social & Legal Theory and Law, Gender and Sexuality. She has previously taught modules in Contract law, Labour law, and Migration and Work.
• Dr Philippa Collins
  Philippa Collins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. After completing her doctorate at the University of Oxford, she now researches and teaches Employment Law. Her research focuses on the relationship between human rights and employment law mechanisms, and she has published a leading monograph, Putting Human Rights to Work: Labour Law, the ECHR and the Employment Relation, on this topic. Her current project examines the protection of labour rights and fundamental rights in an era of algorithmic management and in the light of increased use of technology in the workplace.
• Professor Joanne Conaghan
  Joanne Conaghan has researched extensively in the field of labour law with a particular emphasis on gender issues, work/life balance and theories of labour law.

• Dr Manoj Dias-Abey
  Manoj Dias-Abey is a socio-legal scholar who is mainly interested in new labour organizations and movements of low-waged workers. His related research focus is the law and political economy of labour migration. Manoj holds Master of Laws (Research), Bachelor of Laws, and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He completed his Ph.D. at Queen’s University (Canada) in 2016 where he was also a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016-2018. His dissertation examined the work of three labour organizations active in representing farm workers in the United States and Canada.
• Ms Anamaria Fonseca
  Anamaria is currently a teaching associate in law at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on forced migration, ethnicity, integration, citizenship and the hostile environment for immigrants, sex work, right to work for migrants, women's rights, intersectionality and Marxist feminism. It explores the intricacies of the decriminalisation and regulation of sex work, exploring the possible implications for the well-being and rights of sex workers. Through her research, she aims to contribute to clarifying the multifaceted issues surrounding the labour rights of migrants, especially those who have been forcibly displaced, as well as contributing to the ongoing discourse on the decriminalisation and regulation of sex work. Her general research interests lie at the intersection of human rights, migration and labour markets, with a particular focus on the right to work for migrants in hostile immigration environments.
• Professor Paula Giliker
  Paula Giliker works on vicarious liability, which is obviously related to the workplace in terms of employers' liability for the torts of their employees and, more recently, a broader notion of what we mean by 'employment' and a separation between the concept of employment in tort and that in employment and social security law.
• Professor Tonia Novitz
  Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol. Her research interests focus predominantly on labour law, international and EU trade and the protection of human rights. A graduate of the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Balliol College, Oxford, Tonia Novitz has held fellowships at the International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva), the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland. She has been a professor at Bristol since 2008. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Institute of Employment Rights and the Industrial Law Society. She is an honorary member of Old Square Chambers (based in Bristol and London).

• Professor Ken Oliphant
  Ken Oliphant's research interests include the law of employers' liability and compensation for work-related illness and injury. He is the joint editor of a wide-ranging comparative survey of these issues, as well as having addressed no-fault compensation for work accidents and disease in his wider research on no-fault compensation for incapacity.
• Prof. Devyani Prabhat
  Devyani Prabhat’s work on citizenship and immigration focusses on rights and capabilities and adopts a categorical lens using class, race, gender and age as relevant categories for inter-disciplinary analysis of the law. Dr Prabhat is interested in various macro-political issues which impact on immigration and nationality laws such the role of lawyers and the legal profession, issues of national security, economic and political constraints on work and voting, and the commitments made towards various categories of migrants. For instance, she looks at rights of migrant children and youth, settlement/citizenship rights for long term resident workers and their families and the impact of precarious legal status on various kinds of migrants.
• Professor Tony Prosser
  Tony Prosser’s interests are regulation, both economic and social. For example, his book 'The Regulatory Enterprise' had a chapter on the Health and Safety Executive, and he has also studied rail franchising as a form of regulation, and one which has been central to recent industrial action on the railways.
• Professor Oliver Quick
  Oliver Quick is interested in law and regulation within the health care workplace. He has a special interest in patient safety and how various legal mechanisms impact on the ability of professionals and organisations to deliver safer care. This includes the work of professional regulators (such as the General Medical Council) and the use of civil and criminal law as a response to failure of medical work. His recently published monograph 'Regulating Patient Safety: the End of Professional Dominance' (CUP, 2017) explores the experiences of healthcare professionals who have raised concerns about safety problems at work.
• Dr Roseanne Russell
  Roseanne Russell is a lecturer in law whose research focuses on labour law, corporate governance and gender equality. She is particularly interested in women’s treatment, progression and representation within the corporate workplace. Her latest publication explores corporate governance and transnational business feminism, to be published in Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (2018, Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on two research projects: the first explores unconscious bias and whether the law should provide a remedy for the harms it causes, the second examines multi-national companies and their engagement with gender empowerment projects.
• Yana Simutina
  Yana Simutina is a Senior Research Fellow at Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Professor of Labour Law at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. Her research interests encompass labour law and social rights in the digital era, non-standard forms of working, and the scope of labour law in the gig economy. Since the 1st of September 2022, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Bristol Law School for two years under the Researches at Risk Fellowships Programme established by the UK National Academies with Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics). Her current project examines martial law’s impact on labour rights and relations, in particular, the experience of Ukraine after the russian invasion on the 24th of February 2022.

• Professor Philip Syrpis
  Phil Syrpis is an EU lawyer, interested in EU internal market law, and in particular in the relationship between 'the economic' and 'the social' in that context.
• Dr Asma Vranaki
  Asma Vranaki is law lecturer at the University of Bristol. She is an empirical scholar who interrogates the links between law, society and innovative digital technologies. In particular, she is interested in the legal and regulatory challenges raised by the Gig Economy including worker status, zero contract hours and the obligations of employers in the ‘on-demand’ economy.

• Pankhuri Agarwal
  Pankhrui Agarwal is completing an interdisciplinary doctorate on ‘Journey of bonded laborers from slavery to freedom at the crossroads of labor, law and State in Northern India’. Her research is positioned around a certificate from India (1976) which offers a unique starting point to investigate the popular conflating discourses of labor exploitation and slavery; to question the creation of specific kind of subjects by the State that are eligible for freedom; to critically analyze the notion that legal release from slavery equates to freedom.
• Lara Farrell
  Lara is a socio-legal scholar whose doctoral research interests lie in the political economy of labour unfreedom, worker voice and participatory methodologies. Lara is currently working with Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), overseeing a Participatory Action Research project with workers in precarious employment across several sectors in the UK. The project aims to support and empower workers to gather evidence on exploitation and engage in policy advocacy.
• Jorge Leyton
  Jorge Leyton completed his undergraduate studies at the Catholic University of Chile (2011) and his Master of Laws at the University College London (2015). His research interests relate to Freedom of Association and labour law. His doctoral studies are focused on Freedom of Association and precarious work, looking at the ways in which labour norms promote or hinder the appearance of workers’ organisations in specific sectors where precarious work is prevalent.
• Maja Rogozik
  Maja Rogozik is a European Union law teaching assistant and PhD student. She holds a Master of Laws from the National University of Singapore. Her doctorate research focuses on the comparative analysis of labour and migration laws in the UK and Singapore. Specifically, she focuses on gender related issues and women's rights.
• Diego villavicencio
  Diego Villavicencio-Pinto is a lawyer and completed a Master in Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Talca (Chile, 2021). Prior to his arrival in Bristol, he worked as a lecturer in labour law in Chile (UCSH). His research interests are related to the labour phenomenon analysed from a multidisciplinary approach. He is currently conducting his doctoral research on the right to profit-sharing and its effects on the labour identity of workers.

• Professor Anne Davies
  Anne Davies is the Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty and Professor of Law and Public Policy. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law. Her current research focuses on job security and issues surrounding casual work and working time.
• Professor Keith Ewing
  Professor Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London. He has written extensively on labour law including recognition procedures and international standards. He is also the President of the Institute of Employment Rights.
• Colin Fenwick
  Colin Fenwick has been Head of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Labour Law and Reform Unit since April 2015. Colin’s research explores the effects of labour law as a policy instrument for labour market regulation, with a particular focus on developing economies. He has contributed to and jointly edited a number of books, and his work has been published in leading academic journals.
• Professor Judy Fudge
  Professor Judy Fudge is a Professor in the School for Labour Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 for her contribution to labour law scholarship. Her research interests include labour and employment law (Canadian, UK, European, and International), immigration and work, precarious work and human rights and citizenship at work. She is currently working on a project on unfree labour , modern slavery and labour exploitation that explores the relationship between legal characterization and jurisdiction and capitalist labour markets. Recent publications relating to this project include: ‘Why Labour Lawyers Should Care About the Modern Slavery Act 2015’, King'sLaw Journal, (2019) DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2018.1549699 ‘Illegal Working, Migrants and Labour Exploitation in the UK’ 38(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 557-584 (2018).
• Professor Julia López
  Julia Lopez is Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and researcher in the research group for labour and social security law GREDTiSS. She is also member of the steering committee of the Labour Law Research Network and has recently participated in research projects on precarious work and social rights led by the Working Lives Research Institute (London Metropolitan University).
• Dr Jason Moyer-Lee
  Jason Moyer-Lee has spent just under a decade in the trade union movement, including over seven years in elected leadership roles at the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), a leading trade union for precarious, “gig economy”, and migrant workers. During that time membership grew from a few hundred to over 5,400 (including cleaners, foster care workers, Uber drivers, couriers, video game workers, and others). Jason developed and oversaw the union's strategic litigation, which included bringing cases over (limb b) worker status as well as cases challenging the government on workers' rights. Jason Moyer-Lee is a Practitioner Fellow at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and he is writing a book on effective activism

• Hannah Reed
  Hannah Reed is National Officer and Team Leader in the Employment Relations Department at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Before joining the RCN, Hannah worked at the TUC and was responsible for developing and promoting TUC policy on individual employment rights and trade union rights in the UK and the EU. Hannah served on the ILC Committee on the Application of Standards (2017-18) and is a former Member of the UK Gangmasters Licensing Authority Board. She is a member of the Executive Committee at the Institute of Employment Rights and has served on the Executive Committee Member of the Industrial Law Society.

• Ricardo Buendia-Esteban
  Ricardo is currently a Lecturer and Course Director in Employment Law at the University of Manchester. Ricardo is also a trained Chilean lawyer in labour law (non-practising). He holds an LLM in Economic Law from the University of Chile School of Law and an LLM in International Law from the Universities of Chile and Heidelberg. Ricardo also holds a PhD from the University of Bristol Law School. His main research areas are UK and EU labour and competition law.
• Serena Crawshay-Williams
  Serena studied Law at the University of Bristol. She previously worked as a research assistant on domestic and comparative employment law for Alan Bogg. She is currently a barrister at Old Square Chambers where she has a particular focus on employment law.
• Natalia Delgado
  Dr. Natalia Delgado is a lecturer at the Law School, University of Southampton. Her research combines International Law, Labour Law, and Political Economy. Natalia obtained her LLB and qualified as a barrister in Argentina and graduated with a Master's in International and European Law from the University of Geneva. She has a background working with trade unions, union federations, and the International Labour Organization. She completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her dissertation analysed how the ILO, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund have conceptualised labour since the 1970s.
• Franz Christian Ebert
  Franz is a Research Officer in Labour Law at the Research Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. His research is located at the intersection of transnational labour law, economic governance, and human rights law. Previously, he worked for nine years as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and was a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Franz was also a visiting researcher at Columbia Law School and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He has advised several international organisations, governments, and civil society organizations and has appeared before committees of the European Parliament and the German Parliament.
• Rachel Hunter
  Rachel Hunter completed her undergraduate degree in law at the University of Oxford (Hertford College). She then studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law, with a focus on international employment and comparative equality law. She has research experience in fields including collective labour law and the gig economy. She is a solicitor specialising in employment law and hopes to develop her research interests alongside private practice.
• Polly Lord
  Polly Lord is a socio-legal researcher and associate at Frederick Place Chambers, a specialist labour law chambers in Bristol. Her main research interests lie in agricultural labour and the application of statutory employment law rights in practice. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature and she uses a range of empirical and theoretical techniques drawn from the social sciences to evaluate the effectiveness of law and policy.
• Jack Meakin
  Jack is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. He was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol having completed his PhD in Law at the University of Glasgow. His research interests sit at the intersection between legal/constitutional theory, socio-legal studies, and labour law. His most recent work draws on legal theoretical and socio-legal insights to comprehend how labour movements use law strategically in the context of industrial relations. In August 2022, he will begin a two-year ESRC New Investigator Grant, undertaking research on the project: ‘TRACTION Trasnnational Labour Constitutionalism: Strategic Litigation and the Constitutional Protection of Work.’
• Inga Thiemann
  Inga Thiemann is a socio-legal scholar whose main research focus is in the areas of sex work and trafficking for sexual exploitation, as well as feminised labour, care work and domestic work, as well as the interplay of migration law and labour exploitation. Her work uses a combination of theoretical, empirical and doctrinal methods. She is currently running a qualitative pilot study for her new project, in which she explores avenues of reconciling sex workers’ regulatory needs and preferences with existing legal concepts in employment and self-employment regulation. In the pilot, she addresses this issue in the Israeli context, as part of a visiting fellowship at TraffLab, Tel Aviv University.
• Darcy du Toit
  Darcy du Toit is an Emeritus Professor of the University of the Western Cape and former Dean of Law, currently acting as research coordinator of the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work in the University’s Faculty of Law and a consultant at Bradley Conradie Halton Cheadle Attorneys in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his BA, LLB degrees at the University of Cape Town and his doctorate at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He has published in South Africa and other countries on various aspects of employment and labour law, focusing most recently on domestic work, strike law, discrimination law and work in the digital economy in a context of promoting social justice.
• Alex Wood
  Alex is a sociologist of work and employment at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the impact of technology on labour relations and labour markets. His most recent research has investigated worker voice, organisation and collective action in the gig economy as part of the iLabour project at the University of Oxford. Previously he researched the impact of platform work and the gig economy on Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia as part of the “Microwork and Virtual Production Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia” project. His PhD in sociology (University of Cambridge, 2016) focused on the consequences of precarious scheduling for working conditions and workplace control and is published by Cornell University Press as 'Despotism On Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace.