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. From 2019 - 2023, she was chair of the steering committee of the international Labour Law Research Network (LLRN). She is currently 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 labour rights, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration. Her publications have been cited in the Supreme Court of Canada, the UK Supreme Court, and the International Court of Justice. She has also been invited to present evidence to the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on UK collective labour law. She is the author of International and European Protection of the Right to Strike (Oxford University Press 2003), co-author of The Right to Strike in International Law (Hart/Bloomsbury 2020) and co-editor of The Right to Strike Reimagined (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2026). She was a pro bono member of the legal team advising the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on litigation before the International Court of Justice concerning the right to strike, regarding the advisory opinion delivered in 2026. Her most recent sole-authored monograph is Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind (Edward Elgar, 2024).