CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS LECTURE SERIES 2011-12: 

Identifying 'Exploitative Compromises': The Role of Labour Law in Resolving Disputes between Workers

by
Dr Anne Davies
Brasenose College, Oxford

Chaired by The Rt Hon Lord Justice Elias

on 27 October 2011, from 6-7pm

Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG

Accredited with 1 CPD hour by the
Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board (Pending)

About this lecture:
In recent years, labour law has been going through a period of deep introspection. Some commentators have gone so far as to pronounce the subject dead. One reason for the crisis is the realisation that labour law can exacerbate divisions between different groups in the workforce: between the employed and the unemployed, between those with stable jobs and those with 'atypical' jobs, between local workers and migrant workers, and so on. The 'interests of labour' are not, in reality, a unified set of interests to be pitted against those of capital. Whilst other writers are beginning to explore this set of issues at the policy level, my aim in this lecture is to consider how the law addresses conflicts between workers on particular occasions and in particular workplaces, and to begin the task of mapping out this neglected dimension of the subject on a more practical level.
 

About the speaker: 
Anne Davies is Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, and Reader in Public Law, Oxford University. Her research interests are in public law and labour law. She is the author of three books (Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government by Contract (OUP, 2001); Perspectives on Labour Law (CUP Law in Context series, 2004; 2nd edn., 2009); The Public Law of Government Contracts (OUP, 2008)) and numerous articles in both fields, and is currently working on a book on EU labour law. She is also General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies..