Antonio Garcia-Munoz is Lecturer in Labour Law. His field of expertise is labour law, including EU labour law. He has researched a wide range of labour law topics, with a focus on collective labour law and EU and international developments. Before joining Glasgow University in 2026, he was an Assistant Professor in Castilla-La Mancha University in Spain. Before that, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Luxembourg and Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he coordinated the European Centre of Expertise (ECE) in Labour Law and Labour Market policies. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Torino in Italy. He earned his PhD in Law with a thesis on European collective bargaining at sectoral level, which was published in 2017 as a monograph (in Spanish). 

In 2025 and 2026 Antonio was co-director of a Postgraduate course on Labour Law for Latin American scholars and professionals held in Toledo, Spain. He is a member of the Spanish Association of Labour Law Scholars (AEDTSS). He regularly presents his work in international conferences, such as the LLRN and ILERA. In 2025, he coordinated a large European study on the implementation of digital rights in the workplace.  

Antonio’s research interests are in the area of labour law, with a particular focus on collective, EU and international labour law. Antonio has published on a wide range of topics, including EU collective bargaining and other EU labour law topics, global framework agreements, labour law and ecology, comparative labour law and in-work poverty. He is also interested in the connections between workers’ rights and collective representation and democracy and the place of labour in EU and national constitutional frameworks. He has collaborated in a number of research projects, including ‘working, yet poor’ (on the role of labour regulation in shaping in-work poverty in Europe) and, more recently, an EU-funded project on the implementation of the European declaration on Digital Rights and Principles at work.  

Currently, he is conducting research on the connections between the regulation of labour and democratic ideals and models and how these have evolved in the last decades in the European context.  

Visiting professor at the University of Torino Italy with a project on collective bargaining for self-employed workers in the EU in 2023 (funded position).  

Antonio is interested in supervising postgraduate research students in his areas of expertise.

Antonio is member of the Spanish Association of Labour Law Scholars (AEDTSS) 

He was involved in the drafting of the report for the proposal of a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on improving and enforcing working conditions of trainees and combating regular employment relationships disguised as traineeships (‘Traineeship Directive’), as stated in the declaration of input of the proposal.  

Antonio has been invited to numerous international workshops and conferences. Recently he was invited to the Spanish-Italian Labour Law Conference in Vigo, Spain (September 2025) and the international workshop on the Law – Collective Bargaining Nexus held in Aix-en-Provence, France (October 2024).  

He contributed to the MOOC course organised by ETUI on ‘Skills for Labour and Environmental Justice’ (2024) 

He won the Marco Biaggi award 2011 (together with Attila Kun and Beryl ter Haar) for the best article written by young researchers for their work ‘Soft on the inside, hard on the outside: An analysis of New Forms of International Labour Law’ (2011) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, volume 4, issue 27, 337-363.