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 and the UK Supreme Court; she has also been invited to present evidence to the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on UK collective labour law. She recently assisted the legal team advising the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on litigation before the International Court of Justice concerning the right to strike. Her most recent monograph, which was published by Edward Elgar in 2024, examines the relationship between sustainable development and labour standards in the context of trade.