Labour Law Symposium Programme

Venue: Turnbull Room, Main Building

9.30   Coffee and Welcome

10.00 - 11.15 

  • Diamond Ashiagbor, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies - Theorising the Relationship between Social Rights and Markets in Regional Integration Projects
  • Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge - Quantitative Approaches to Labour Law Research: An Assessment and Defence

         Chair/Discussant: Andy Cumbers, University of Glasgow

11.15 - 11.45   Coffee 

11.45 - 13.00   

  • Judy Fudge, University of Kent - Conceptualizing Unfree Labour and Labour Exploitation: Legal Characterization
  • Jenny Julén Votinius, Lund University - Normative Distortions – Parental Rights and Market Values in Labour Law

         Chair/Discussant: Emilios Christodoulidis, University of Glasgow

13.00 - 13.45   Lunch

13.45 - 15.00  

  • Ruth Dukes, University of Glasgow - Critical Approaches to the Study of Labour Law: Learning from Political Economy and Economic Sociology
  • Robert Knegt, University of Amsterdam - Practices, Concepts and Constitutions of Labour Relations

         Chair/Discussant: Colin Fenwick, International Labour Organisation

15.00 - 15.30   Coffee

15.30 - 16.45  

  • Shelley Marshall, Monash University - Using a Historical Institutionalist Approach to assess the Cambodian Better Factories Project
  • Claire Mummé, University of Windsor Faculty of Law  - The Value of Global Value Chain Analysis for Labour Law

         Chair/Discussant: Lizzie Barmes, Queen Mary, University of London

17.00  Wine Reception

          Room 207, No. The Square