
Professor Tonia Novitz
LLB(Hons) First Class, BCL (Oxon), D.Phil.(Oxon.)
Expertise
Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol Centre for Law at Work. Her research interests encompass labour rights, collective labour voice, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration.
Current positions
Professor of Labour Law
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Tonia Novitz is a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol Law School in the UK. A graduate of the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Balliol College, Oxford, she 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 is currently chair of the steering committee of the international Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), a UK representative on the advisory board of International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW), and a Vice President of the UK Institute of Employment Rights. She was a founding co-director of the Bristol Centre for Law at Work. Her research interests encompass collective labour rights, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration. Her publications have been cited in the Supreme Court of Canada and the UK Supreme Court. Recently, she has written on the relationship between sustainable development and labour standards in the gig economy, as well as the ways in which sustainable development chapters in EU free trade agreements may be enforced.
Research interests
Areas on which Prof. Novitz writes: Labour law, international and EU law, trade, sustainable development, migration, and legal mechanisms for the protection of human rights.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
A sustainable and inclusive Swedish labour market the way ahead
Principal Investigator
Description
In 2017, Professor Tonia Novitz wrote on ‘Collective Bargaining, Equality and Migration: The Journey to and from Brexit’ (Industrial Law Journal 109 – 133). The warnings which she issued regarding…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/06/2018 to 31/12/2021
SMART
Principal Investigator
Description
This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/03/2016 to 29/02/2020
VOICES AT WORK: LEGAL EFFECTS ON ORGANISATION, REPRESENTATION AND NEGOTIATION
Principal Investigator
Description
Preliminary findings are available in a Special Issue of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal (2012) Vol. 33(3). Special issues, which focus on developments in North America and Australasia,…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2010 to 01/01/2014
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
27/11/2021Gig work as a manifestation of short-termism
Industrial Law Journal
Engagement with sustainability at the International Labour Organization and wider implications for collective worker voice
International Labour Review
Sustainability as Solidarity Unbound
Inscribing Solidarity
Recent publications
11/02/2022Addressing ‘social dumping’ and ‘unfair competition’
Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe
Collective Labour Rights for Working People
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law
SDG 8: Promote Sustained, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth, Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for All
The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
Sustainability as Solidarity Unbound
Inscribing Solidarity
The role of the EU in making 'sustainable' labour linkages
Understanding the EU as a Good Global Actor
Teaching
LAWD30113 Employment Law
LAWDM0149 Workers, Unions and Collective Labour Rights and
LAWDM0160 Migration and Exploitation in the Global Economy