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	A B M Imdadul Haque Khan Associate Professor Eastern University Bangladesh	Mr. A.B.M. Imdadul Haque Khan is an academic and one of the promising practicing lawyers in Bangladesh. He is an Associate Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Eastern University. Mr. Khan is an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Besides, he is working as International Consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Maritime Crime Program (GMCP). He is Legal Advisor of ActionAid Bangladesh (INGO), Danish Refugee Council (INGO), International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC-Public International Organization), Norwegian Refugee Council (INGO) where he drafts and reviews Policies and Guidelines vastly on International Law. He did LLM and LLB (Hons.) from the University of Dhaka.
	Abdulwahab Esmaeel Baroun Assistance Professor Arab Open University, Kuwait Kuwait ✉️abaroun@aou.edu.kw	Dr. Baroun is an accomplished academic and practitioner currently working as an Assistant Professor of Management & HRM at the Arab Open University in Kuwait. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Resources Management from the University of Salford, alongside an MBA and a related undergraduate degree. Before academia, he gained extensive experience in the oil and gas industry as an HR director, enriching his academic contributions with practical insights. A member of the Kuwait Economic Society, His research interests include meritocracy, redundancy, power distance, labour Law and cultural dimensions, particularly relevant to Kuwait and the Gulf region.
	Abe Walker Assistance Professor University of North Carolina at Fayetteville Usa ✉️awalker27@uncfsu.edu	Abe Walker is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fayetteville State University, an affiliate institution of the University of North Carolina Sytsem. His scholarly work seeks to bring labor studies into conversation with critical theory. His writing has appeared in The Journal of Labor and Society, Subjectivity, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, and Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, among other publications. His forthcoming book, Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and Struggle for Unionism in the American South, will be published in Fall 2025 by Temple University Press.
	Abhishek Nagta Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Himachal Pradesh High Court India ✉️vibhuti.nakta@gmail.com	Abhishek Nagta is a practicing advocate in the Himachal Pradesh High Court. Practicing on the civil, constitutional and criminal side.
	Adalberto Perulli Professor Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia Italy ✉️adaper@unive.it	ADALBERTO PERULLI is Full Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre (France).Among his academic assignments:- E.MA Director of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratization at the EIUC.- Director of the University Master's Degree in Labor and Social Security Law at Ca' Foscari- Former Pro-Rector for Placement and Internship- Director of the Legal Studies Center of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.For the European Commission (DG V) he has carried out studies and research on the transposition of Community directives and parasubordinate work.He collaborates with the International Labor Organization (ILO), for which he participated as ILO Consultant in The Employment Relationship Recommendation No. 198 Follow up Guidelines.He was a member, as an expert consultant, of the National Committee for Equal Opportunities at the Ministry of Labor in Rome.He was general speaker at several national and international seminars and congresses, among them: the XVIII ISLSSL World Congress on labor law and productive decentralization (Paris, 5-8 September 2006) and the XXII ISLSSL World Congress, Turin, 4-7 September 2018, on global trade and social rights.
	Adriana Orifici Lecturer Monash University Australia ✉️adriana.orifici@monash.edu	Dr Adriana Orifici is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University and Director of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights Research Group (LEAH). She has taught employment law to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Adriana’s research focuses on Australian labour and employment equality law. Her PhD, which she recently completed at Melbourne Law School, is forthcoming as a monograph with Oxford University Press.
	Aelim Yun Director Institute of Workers Rights South Korea ✉️aelimyun@hotmail.com	PhD in labour law, Director of the Institute of Workers Rights (IWR)Research topics: Precarious Worker, Supply Chain, Collective Labour Rights, Labour Movement, International Labour Standards.Recent Publications: - A. Yun, “Reconstructing Labour Law Actors beyond Employment”, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 34, no. 4, 2018.- A. Yun, “Transportation workers’ mobilization against the gig economy”, in I. Ness (ed.), Platform Labour and Global Logistics - A Research Companion, Routledge, 2022.- A. Yun, "A Review on the Labour Provisions within the Free Trade Agreements from a Perspective of Korean Labour Movement", International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 41(2), forthcoming
	Agnieszka ZwolińSka Assistance Professor University of Warsaw Poland ✉️a.zwolinska@wpia.uw.edu.pl	Agnieszka Zwolińska - assistant professor at the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw; assistant specialist for jurisprudence at the Labour and Social Security Chamber, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland. Field of interest: a legal construction of an employment relationship, working time and rest time, enforcement of labour law, collective labour law, alternative forms of conflict resolution.
	Aislinn Adele Kelly-Lyth Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Blackstone Chambers United Kingdom ✉️aislinnkelly-lyth@blackstonechambers.com	Aislinn is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, where her practice includes both data protection and employment law. She has advised on matters such as data sharing within the advertising technology (AdTech) context, the lawfulness of international transfers of personal data, the appropriate technical and organisational measures required for ensuring data security in high-risk contexts, and the minimum standards for data protection impact assessments (DPIAs). Before entering private practice, Aislinn was a researcher at the University of Oxford, where her work focused on algorithmic discrimination and the regulation of automated decision-making systems in the workplace.
	Akira Ariizumi Visiting Scholar Leiden University Netherlands ✉️a.ariizumi@law.leidenuniv.nl	I was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, majoring in labor law.Since last September, I have been a Visiting Researcher in the Social Law Department at Leiden University, where I am studying Dutch labor law for one year.After my term as a Visiting Researcher ends, I will return to the University of Tokyo.
	Akm Nasim Country Program Director (Lawyer) Solidarity Center - Bangladesh Office Bangladesh ✉️akmnasim@solidaritycenter.org	Mr. A.K.M. Nasim, enrolled in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, is a member of the Dhaka District Bar Association and the Labour Court Lawyers' Society. With vast experience in labor law, he handles cases in Labor Courts, the Labour Appellate Tribunal, and the High Court. As Country Program Director of the Solidarity Center Bangladesh, he oversees all operations and continues to lead legal program implementation, supervising a legal team and advising on labor, employment, and industrial relations matters.
	Alan Hyde Professor Rutgers University Usa ✉️professoralanhyde@gmail.com	Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Working in Silicon Valley (2003), Bodies of Law (1997). Visiting Professor Yale, Toronto, Columbia, NYU, Michigan, Cornell.
	Aleksandar Ristovski Professor Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law - Skopje North Macedonia ✉️a.ristovski@pf.ukim.edu.mk	Aleksandar Ristovski is Full Professor of labour law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law - Skopje). Professor Ristovski has participated in several international scientific projects and has on multiple occasions been engaged as external collaborator of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on labour law and industrial relations’ related projects in Macedonia. He also is a national expert for North Macedonia in the European Labour Law Network (ELLN) and the CEElex network of national legal experts on labour and industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe. Prof. Ristovski is one of the founders of the Association for Labor and Social Law of North Macedonia established in 2019 and currently serves as its vice president.
	Alena Van Geen PhD student Tilburg University The Netherlands ✉️a.vangeen@tilburguniversity.edu	Alena van Geen is a Dutch-Spanish labour law PhD researcher at the department of Private, Business and Labour Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research interests revolve around the interplay between the green transition and labour law, specifically occupational safety and health. Currently, Alena is conducting a comparative research, focusing on the role that collective representation can play in safeguarding construction workers' occupational safety and health in the midst of green change.
	Alexander De Becker Professor Ghent University Belgium ✉️alexander.debecker@ugent.be	Alexander De Becker is professor of Labour Law at Ghent University (Belgium). His main fields of expertise are the State as Employer, Health and Safety, Collective Bargaining and Individual Dismissals. He has held Chair a the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Turin and Bologna.
	Alexander SøNderland SkjøNberg Professor BI Norwegian Business School and University of Oslo Norway ✉️alexander.n.skjonberg@bi.no	Alexander S. Skjønberg is a full professor in law. He holds a Master of Law degree from 2010 and a PhD in Law from 2018, both from the University of Oslo. He has been employed at the Department of Law and Governance at BI Norwegian Business School since 2017. Additionally, he holds a position as Professor II at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Skjønberg's legal expertise primarily lies in collective and individual labour law. His work focuses on issues related to employers' managerial prerogative, dismissals, transfer of undertakings, strikes, lockouts, and other industrial actions, compulsory arbitration, collective agreements, and more. He is also particularly interested in the historical and ideological foundations of labour law. His academic interests further include legal history, contract law, and EU law.Skjønberg holds several national and international positions. He serves as the Chair of the Norwegian Labour Law Association (NARF) and is editor for labour law at Karnov Group Norway, member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law and deputy judge in the Labour Court of Norway to mention some.
	Alexandre De Le Court Lecturer Universitat de Barcelona Spain	Serra Húnter Fellow of Labour Law and Social Security at the Law Faculty of the University of Barcelona and member of the UPF consolidated research group in Labour Law and Social Security. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, where he has been a Lecturer from 2013 to 2021.
	Amanda Darshini Selvarajah Lecturer Monash University Australia	Amanda Selvarajah is a lecturer and socio-legal scholar at the Department of Business Law and Taxation and a member of the Labour Equality and Human Rights (LEAH) Research Group at Monash University. Her research uses doctrinal and empirical methods with a focus on issues of access to justice and gender equality, particularly in the fields of labour law and taxation in the Asia Pacific region.
	Amanda Jane Reilly Senior Lecturer Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand ✉️amanda.reilly@vuw.ac.nz	Dr Amanda Reilly is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Government at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches across a range of commercial law subjects, but her main research interest is the legal regulation of work broadly defined. She is also co-convener of the Employee Privacy Working Group of the New Zealand Privacy Foundation.
	Amir Paz-Fuchs Professor University of Sussex United Kingdom ✉️a.paz-fuchs@sussex.ac.uk	Amir Paz Fuchs is Professor of Law and Social Justice and Head of the Law School at the University of Sussex. Amir has expertise in labour and employment law, social rights and social justice, and legal aspects of privatisation. At Sussex, he was Founding Director of Sussex Clinical Legal Education, and Academic Lead of the Employment Law Clinic. At present (2025) Amir is completing a co-authored monograph on State Facilitated Unfree Labour as well as a co-authored textbook, the first in the UK, on Clinical Legal Education.
	Ana Teresa Ribeiro Assistance Professor Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Faculty of Law - Porto School) Portugal ✉️aribeiro@ucp.pt	Ana Teresa Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Law – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), where she coordinates the Law degree and where she also teaches Labour Law (individual and collective relations) and Collective Bargaining, Collective Conflict, and Worker's Involvement. She is a member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts Network (TTUR) and her field of research is mostly focused on collective bargaining and the collective representation of workers (topics on which she several publications in English and Portuguese).
	Andrea Bollani Professor Università di Pavia (University of Pavia) Italy ✉️andrea.bollani@unipv.it	Full Professor in Labour Law in the University of Pavia, he is member of the Board of the Associazione italiana di diritto del lavoro e della sicurezza sociale.He is also member of the Editorial Board of Diritto delle relazioni industriali and of Nuova giurisprudenza civile commentata.He is member of the Referees Committee of Rivista italiana di diritto del lavoro, of Responsabilità civile eprevidenza, of Argomenti di diritto del lavoro and of Il lavoro nella giurisprudenza.
	Andrea Isabel Franconi Professor University of Buenos Aires Argentina ✉️afranconi@hotmail.com	Andrea Isabel Franconi is a labour law specialist and legal researcher. A PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca, she holds degrees in law and industrial relations from Argentina and Italy. She lectures at the University of Buenos Aires and collaborates with institutions across Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. A former government negotiator /technical advisor in Argentina, ex programme officer at ITCILO and legal researcher at ILO. She contributed to key international negotiations, including those regarding ILO standards C190 and Recommendation 205. She is also an academic director, published author, and frequent speaker on labour rights, technologies in the world of work, gender equality, and violence and harassment in the workplace.
	Anette Hemmingby Associate Professor BI Norwegian Business School Norway ✉️anette.hemmingby@bi.no	I will not present, but here is a short bio:Dr. Anette Hemmingby is Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Law and Governance at BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Oslo and had been a visiting scholar at IAAEU in Trier, Germany and at Berkeley, USA. Hemmingby leads the NCell (Nordic Center of Labour Law Research) at BI, and represents the center at LLRN. She is also one of the initiators behind the establishment of the Nordic research network NNLLS – Nordic Network of Labour Law Scholars, and the Norwegian Labour Law History Association. In addition, she is one of the founders and the Editor in Chief of the European journal The Nordic Journal of Labour Law.
	Angelo Casu PhD student Sapienza Università di ROma Italy ✉️angelo.casu@uniroma1.it	Angelo Casu is a PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome, enrolled in the XXXVIII cycle of the PhD program in Labor Law. His research focuses on health and safety at work and discrimination. He has contributed to specialized legal journals. He participated also in national and international conferences.
	Ania Zbyszewska Associate Professor Carleton University Canada ✉️ania.zbyszewska@carleton.ca	Ania Zbyszewska is an Associate Professor in Law and Work in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her interdisciplinary, socio-legal research focuses on regulation of work as a socio-ecological process and engages with feminist and political ecology approaches to re/consider the interface of work and environmental regulation and explore regulatory alternatives that facilitate more sustainable work and livelihoods. Ania currently leads a SSHRC-funded project Law and the Labour/Environment Nexus: Interactions, Implications, Regulatory Alternatives, which focuses on labour, social reproduction and ecological conditions in mining-affected communities in Canada and Brazil.
	Anna Joy Williams Stipendiary Lecturer in Law and Doctoral Candidate Merton College, University of Oxford United Kingdom	Anna Williams is currently a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Merton College, Oxford; a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford; and a specialist employment and discrimination law barrister. She is due to take up a Career Development Fellowship in Law at Trinity College, Oxford, later this year. Her research is informed by her background in practice and focuses on the role of courts in the development of labour law in a variety of different contexts, both domestic and international.
	Anna Maria Molina Garcia PhD student Universitat de Girona Spain ✉️annamaria.molina@udg.edu	Member of the Horizon Europe Care4Care Consortium on behalf of the University of Girona (Spain).Phd Researcher in Labour and Social Security Law, specializing in the working conditions of care workers.
	Anna Zilli Professor UNIVERSITY OF UDINE Italy ✉️anna.zilli@uniud.it	Prof. Dr. Anna Zilli, University of Udine, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Zaragoza (Spain) and Toulouse 1 Capitole (France). Her main research fields are Non-Discrimination Law, DEI, Compliance and Prevention of Corruption. Anna wrote about one hundred scientific publications, including 2 books, and the first Italian Code of Anti-Discrimination Law. She is the founder and co-editor of EQUAL – Journal of Non-Discrimination Law, the first (and only) journal on the subject in Italy. Anna is the curator of the CLIP editorial series, which since 2021 has published 7 volumes on the Public Sector.
	Antonio Aloisi Associate Professor IE University Law School, Madrid Spain ✉️antonio.aloisi@ie.edu	Antonio Aloisi is an associate professor at IE University Law School in Madrid, where he teaches European and comparative Labour Law and guides students through the varieties of digital regulation. He co-leads the “Lawtomation” Jean Monnet Centre. He is also a member of the “LawAhead” Center on the Legal Profession and a fellow at the UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance. Antonio co-authored the book “Your Boss Is an Algorithm. Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour” (Hart Publishing, 2022). His research interests include the twin (green and digital) transition, workers’ digital rights, and the relationship between innovation and regulation.
	Aria Huys PhD student Institute for Labour Law, KU Leuven Belgium ✉️aria.huys@kuleuven.be	Aria Huys (°28 January 2000) graduated with distinction as Master of Laws from the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven in 2023. She specialised in international, European, and labour law. During her studies, she participated in an Erasmus+ exchange to Leiden University. Since 1 September 2023, she is active as a PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Labour Law, KU Leuven. Under the supervision of Prof. F. Hendrickx and Prof. C. Hiessl, she researches the normative dimension of core labour standards and rights at work in global value chains. She is editor of the Arbeidsrecht Journaal.
	Arianna Abbasciano Postdoctoral Researcher University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Italy ✉️arianna.abbasciano@uniba.it	Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher in Labour Law at the Department of Law, University of Bari “Aldo Moro.” Specializing in the exploitation of workers in the agri-food supply chain, her research also adopts a gender perspective on agricultural policies and explores protection tools for the female agricultural workforce. She has presented at national and international conferences and seminars and is the author of articles and essays published in peer-reviewed scientific volumes and journals. Currently, she is part of a national research project on “time-less workers”. Her research interests include agricultural work, due diligence, gender mainstreaming, working time, and privacy at work.
	Arianne Renan Barzilay Associate Professor University of Haifa Faculty of Law Israel ✉️arianne.barzilay@gmail.com ; arianne@law.haifa.ac.il	Dr. Arianne Renan Barzilay is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Her fields of interest include workplace regulation, the future of work, employment discrimination, law and political economy, and feminist theories. She uses historical and socio-legal methods in her scholarship and often applies gender and class analysis in her work. Her work has provided the basis for subsequent legislative initiatives and has been cited in academic papers, the media, by courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court) and in the ILO's landmark report on the future of work.
	Aristea Koukiadaki Professor ILO Switzerland ✉️aristea.koukiadaki@manchester.ac.uk	Aristea is Managing Editor of the International Labour Review and Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the University of Manchester.She holds a PhD from Warwick Business School and in the past worked at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick. She is currently research associate at the Centre for Business Research (University of Cambridge) and is a member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Her research has focused on the empirical study of law and on applied legal and policy analysis, with particular reference to comparative labour law and industrial relations. Her current research focuses on the evolution of remedial rules and institutions in comparative labour law (UKRI-funded project, originally ERC Consolidator Grant).
	Arwen Joyce Lecturer University of Leicester United Kingdom ✉️arwen.joyce@le.ac.uk	I am a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. My research interests include low-wage economic migration, labour law and legal education. I previously taught at Singapore Management University and worked in private practice as a capital markets lawyer in London and Singapore.
	Athiwuth Phanprechakij Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Chandler Mori Hamada Limited Thailand ✉️athiwuth.p@morihamada.com	Athiwuth Phanprechakij is a Senior Associate at Chandler Mori Hamada and has been with the firm since 2015. Prior to joining Chandler Mori Hamada he worked at other respected international law firms in Bangkok. He specializes in corporate law, labour law, trade competition law, compliance law, data protection law, general business agreements including other relevant legal aspects of commercial transactions. He represents a number of private and public companies, both domestic and international clients, in respect to company incorporations, obtaining certificates or licenses, and providing legal advice. Athiwuth also has particular expertise in labour and employment law such as drafting employment agreements, termination of employment, drafting/reviewing/revising work rules and regulations and other related matters. He contributes to articles, and newsletters of Chandler Mori Hamada. Additionally, he has extensive working experience with Japanese clients.
	Attila Kun Professor Károli Gáspár University (KRE), Ludovika-UPS (NKE) Hungary ✉️kun.attila@kre.hu	Attila Kun is a Full Professor in labour law and the Head of the Department of Labour Law and Social Security at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Faculty of Law, Budapest. He is also a part-time professor at the Ludovika University of Public Service (NKE), Department of Human Resources. He is a member of several professional networks, including the ILO-CEELEX Network; the European Commission’s MoveS-Network; the ETUI’s Workers’ Participation Network; the HSMCC Organising Committee; LLRN Advisory Board; OECD NCP (Hungary), Advisory Board etc.
	Aude Cefaliello Senior Researcher European Trade Union Institute Belgium ✉️acefaliello@etui.org	Aude joined the ETUI in October 2020. Aude specialised in OSH with a socio-legal and comparative approach at the University of Glasgow. There, she gained a PhD at the Law School in 2020 after completing a thesis on ways to improve the legal framework governing OSH in EU. Her research focuses on: OSH & New technologies, work-related Psychosocial Risks, and OSH & Climate Change, Green Transition.
	Avinoam Cohen Lecturer College of Management - Academic Studies Israel ✉️cavinoam@colman.ac.il	Avinoam Cohen is a lecturer at the Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management, Israel, directs the excellence programs at the Faculty of Law and teaches and instructs a seminars and research workshops in the fields of Legal Methods and Research, Human Rights and Public International Law. His research studies interplays of law, institutions and social policy, particularly in the contexts of migration governance and regulation, welfare, and human rights litigation.
	Aysla Sabine Rocha Teixeira PhD student Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brazil ✉️aysla.teixeira@gmail.com	Labour lawyer in Brasil. Master in Labour Law (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). PhD candidate in Labour Law (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). E-mail: aysla.teixeira@gmail.com.
	Barbara De Micheli Head of Social Justice Unit at Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Italy ✉️demicheli@fondazionebrodolini.eu	Barbara De Micheli holds a Degree in Political Sciences and a Phd on Labour, Innovation and Organizations at Fondazione Marco Biagi Modena. She coordinates the Social Justice Area. She’s an experienced project manager and senior researcher with extensive experience in researches funded by the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). She also leads the Master on Diversity Management and Gender Equality, she’s an activist for gender equality and loves participating as a trainer or facilitator in learning events
	Barbara De Mozzi Professor University of Padua Italy	Full professor of Labour and Employment Law – University of Padua. Member of national and international research groups. Member of steering committees, editorial boards, and peer reviewer for labor law journals. She teaches Labour Law in the second cycle degree of the Law School – Padova University, she teaches European Union Labour Law in the first cycle degree in Employment counselor at Padova University (Law School).
	Barbara Surdykowska Legal adviser NSZZ Solidarność Poland ✉️b.surdykowska@solidarnosc.org.pl	Barbara Surdykowska - Legal adviser to the National Commission of NSZZ "Solidarność and a trade union expert at the Social Dialogue Council - a Polish tripartite cross-industry body. Involved in several cross-border negotiations under the European Social Dialogue mechanism. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Warsaw University. National correspondent for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) for the period 2013-2022. Member of the Goodcorp and MONACO research networks at the European Trade Union Institute, which focus on corporate governance issues.
	Bart Roels Lecturer AP Hogeschool Belgium ✉️bart.roels@proximus.be	I am a lecturer of social and European law in Antwerp, Belgium.
	Bashman Adesina Mohammed PhD student University of Aberdeen Nigeria ✉️b.mohammed.20@abdn.ac.uk	Bashman Mohammed is currently undertaking doctoral research within the framework of worker participation in corporate governance at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen. He is a Senior Campaigns Specialist at Solidarity Center where he coordinates platform campaigns in Africa. He holds a Master of Laws with a Merit from the University of London, United Kingdom and attended the Nigerian Law School and the University of Ilorin where he graduated with Second Class Upper Division respectively. He also completed a diploma program in Mass Communication from the Federal Polytechnic Offa with a Distinction. Bashman is a doctoral fellow at Reshaping Work among others.
	Benjamin Sa-Ong Luis LLM Student Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️benjaminsluis@post.harvard.edu	Benjamin Sa-Ong Luis obtained his B.A. Social Sciences (2003) and J.D. (2008) from the University of the Philippines, and his LL.M. (2011) from Harvard Law School. He is currently taking an LL.M. in Business Laws (International Program) at Chulalongkorn University while serving as a research assistant for Prof. Panthip Pruksacholavit. Previously, Benjamin worked for almost 15 years in various senior capacities providing legal and management services for different industries in Southeast Asia.
	Bernadett Solymosi-Szekeres Assistance Professor University of Miskolc Hungary ✉️bernadett.solymosi-szekeres@uni-miskolc.hu	Bernadett Solymosi-Szekeres, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Miskolc, Hungary. She works on the new dimensions of work and labour- and social law, like dependent self-employment, right to disconnect, precarious worker groups (traineeship, etc), with a special focus on gender equality. Her most recent research focuses on the reproductive health and its protection through labour and social law, and through occupational health and safety with a socio-legal and comparative approach. She analyzes the new issues through the lens of human rights as well.
	Biba Arciniegas Professor Universidad Central de Venezuela Venezuela	Biba is professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela since 2022. She completed her studies as a lawyer at the same university (2009) and obtained an LLM in European Labor Law and International Law at the Universiteit Van Amsterdam in Netherlands (2014).She is also a partner in D’Empaire’ s Labor and Employment practice since 2022. She advises national and international clients in all matters of employment law, including employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of corporate transactions. Biba has extensive experience in the preparation, negotiation and termination of employment, severance and equity incentive agreements. She has been recognized as “Next Generation Partner” (2021, 2022 and 2023 Venezuela Labor & Employment Rankings) by The Legal 500.
	Blazej Madrzycki Associate Professor silesia uniwersytety in katowice Poland ✉️blazej.madrzycki@us.edu.pl	Dr Błażej Mądrzycki - Polish labour lawyer, work at the University of Silesia, Department of Labour Law and Social Policy, as a professor adjunct. In 2019 wrote PHD paper. Author of scientific publications Labour Law area. Form 2018 editor-in-chief Legal Scientific Journal: Problems of Labour Law and Social Policy. Mentor operating at the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Silesia in Katowice of the Student Research Group labour law “Opus per laborem”. Currently, his main interests are artificial intelligence in labour law and trade union's s. He Cooperates closely with the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ) as well as the Polish Teachers’ Trade Union (ZNP), where He advise as the lawyer.
	Boldizsar Szentgali-Toth Lecturer HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies (Budapest) Hungary	Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth is a senior research fellow at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies (Budapest). He obtained his PhD degree in February 2019, his dissertation was also published as a volume by the Eötvös Publisher, and the publication of the English adaptation by Springer is also underway. He has published or co-authored around 175 articles in different constitutional law fields. At the same time, he has also presented the outcome of his researches several times in Hungary and even elsewhere around fifty times. He has been awarded various prizes from the past years, while he is also the managing editor or editor of further legal reviews. He has been the chair of OTKA no. 138366. dealing with the establishment of a global database on the constitutional case law under the pandemic; while he has been also the coordinator of the Visegrad Project no. 22120065., which focuses on elections under public health emergencies. He is actively taking part in more COST actions, while he has been awarded the lead of a five-year-long project by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Lendület/Momentum Research Group on Algorithmic Constitutionalism (LP2024-20/2024). He serves from May 2024 as the co-chair of the Hungarian Young Academy.
	Carla Spinelli Professor University Aldo Moro of Bari Italy ✉️carla.spinelli@uniba.it	Carla Spinelli, Ph.D, Full Professor at the Department of Law - University of Bari Aldo Moro, where she teaches "Labour Law" and "EU Social Law". Since 2022 President of the Gender Equality Guarantee Committee of her University. Coordinator of the advanced training course in "Anti-discrimination protection, gender equality and diversity management" from the academic year. 2023-24. P.I. and participant of several research projects on Labour Law and European Labour Law; speaker of national and international conferences and seminars; author of articles and essays published in Italian and English in national and international scientific volumes and journals; editor of collective volumes and thematic sections in scientific journals; member of the scientific committee of national and international legal journals. Current research interests: digital work, disability discrimination, work-life balance, public sector.
	Caroline Ferngren PhD student Faculty of Law, Lund University Sweden ✉️caroline.ferngren@jur.lu.se	PhD student in labor law with a special focus on fundamental rights in labor law. Faculty of law, Lund University, Sweden.
	Carolyn Sutherland Professor Monash University Australia ✉️carolyn.sutherland@monash.edu	Professor Carolyn Sutherland is a member of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights Research Group (LEAH) in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School. Carolyn's research focuses on labour dispute resolution in Southeast Asia; complexity in labour law; and on processes of judicial decision-making in Australian labour law cases. She is currently working on an Australian Research Council Discovery project investigating the formal and informal regulation of labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
	Caterina Giulia Guidetti PhD student "La Sapienza" University of Rome Italy	Caterina Giulia Guidetti is a PhD student at "La Sapienza University of Rome", enrolled in the 39th cycle of the PhD program in "Private Autonomy, Business, Labor, and Protection of Rights in the European and International Perspective", with a focus on Labor Law. Her research focuses on the protection of workers in contracting, with particular attention to the liability profiles of contractors and clients. She has published contributions in legal journals and participated in national and international conferences in the field of labor law.
	Cecile De Villiers Lecturer University of Cape Town South Africa ✉️cecile.devilliers@uct.ac.za	Dr Cecile de Villiers is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town and an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She holds an LLM and LLD in labour law and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is the recipient of research grants from the International Alliance of Research Universities and Law Schools Global League. Her current research focuses on climate-related workplace challenges, including its gender dimension and the impact on informal workers.
	Cesar F. Rosado Marzan Professor University of Iowa United States ✉️cesar-rosadomarzan@uiowa.edu	Edward Carmody Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Holds a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. Current scholarship is socio-legal, focusing on "alt-labor" and worker centers in the United States. Work examines how these organizations advance workers' rights and promote dignitarian, egalitarian, and equity-based values and legal norms. Previous research has addressed doctrinal issues in U.S., Latin American, and international labor and employment law, exploring institutions such as works councils, labor inspectorates, and labor courts. He currently serves in the LLRN Steering Committee.
	Chanisa Ngamapichon Assistance Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️chanisa.n@chula.ac.th	Dr. Chanisa Ngamapichon is an assistant professor at Chulalongkorn University, serving as the Deputy Director for the Master of Arts in Economic Laws Program (M.A.). She obtained her LLB and LLM in Business Law (International Program) from Chulalongkorn University and also earned additional two LLMs in Intellectual Property Law and International Business Law from King’s College London, UK and from La Trobe University, Australia. The Author received her PhD in Law from Chulalongkorn University where her academic areas of interest include Contract Law, Commercial Contracts, International Contracts, Contract Drafting, International Business Law and Inheritance Law.
	Chayanich Thamparipattra Technical Officer ILO Bangadesh ✉️thamparipattra@ilo.org	Chayanich is a legal expert specializing in labor law and international labor standards, currently serving as a Technical Officer of ILO Office in Bangladesh. In this role, Chayanich provides technical assistance to the government, workers’ organizations, and employers’ organizations on matters related to labor law reform and ILO supervisory mechanism. With a background that includes both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international law and experiences working on labour rights in Asia and the Pacific, she brings a strong expertise and commitment to advancing decent work and social justice in the region.
	Che-Yi Wu PhD student National Taiwan University Taiwan	PhD student, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
	Chia-Chen Tsai Government Officer Ministry of Labor Taiwan	I'm Chia-Chen Tsai, from Department of Employment Relations which is under the auspices of the Ministry of Labor,Republic of China.
	Chiara Cristofolini Associate Professor University of Trento Italy ✉️chiara.cristofolini@unitn.it	Chiara Cristofolini is an Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Trento, where she teaches courses on Labour Law, Transnational Labour Law, and Gender Law. Her current research focuses on workplace technological transformation and the digitalisation of industrial relations, leading the Trento Research Unit for the PRIN 2022 PNRR TELOS project. She has held visiting fellowships at several universities, including Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Göttingen Universität and Brunel University London. Chiara authored the monograph “Profili organizzativi e trasparenza finanziaria dei sindacati rappresentativi” (FrancoAngeli, 2021), which received the 2023 AIDLASS prize for the best labour book.
	Chih Hong Tsai Government Officer Taiwan Shilin District Court Taiwan ✉️henry@tsai.prof	Dr. Henry Tsai is currently the Division-Chief Judge at the Labor Court, Taiwan Shilin District Court. Before appointed to be the Division-Chief Judge, he has been a judge at Taiwan Intellectual Property Court and several District Courts over 20 years. He has adjudicated many different kinds of Criminal and Civil cases, including IP cases.Division-Chief Judge Tsai holds Master of Laws in Public Law from Soochow University in Taiwan and LL.M with honors from the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Law in the U.S. He obtained his J.S.D degree from the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, School of Law in Taiwan.Division-Chief Judge Tsai has comprehensive interests in many legal fields and one of his expertise is in Internet Governance. His J.S.D dissertation is entitled: “The Internet Governance on Domain Name Legal System and Its Operation”. He also published lots of articles in periodicals and newspapers. Division-Chief Judge Tsai is also invited to teach “Cyber Operation and International Law”, “Case Study of Copyright Law” and “Labor Law and Cases” at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, School of Law as an adjunct professor.
	Chikei Fong PhD student Renmin University of China China ✉️fongchikei114@ruc.edu.cn	FONG Chikei, born in Macau, China, is a PhD student at the Law School of Renmin University of China and serves as the editor-in-chief of the China Labor and Social Security Law Network. His research interests encompass labor law, social security law, human rights law, and comparative law. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Macau and a Master of Laws from Renmin University of China.
	Chisako Takaya Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Chandler Mori Hamada Limited Thailand ✉️chisako.takaya@morihamada.com	Chisako Takaya is a Co-Managing Partner of Chandler Mori Hamada. She has extensive experience advising on cross-border projects targeting Southeast Asian and South Asian countries and has been working on India related matters since 2001. In addition, Chisako has advised on a broad range of Labour and Employment related matters for more than 20 years. Her experience includes advising on litigation/disputes, employee benefits, administrative matters and labour union related matters. She also advises on labour law issues related to mergers and acquisitions such as pre/post restructuring and reorganization.
	Chizuko Hayakawa Professor Saga University Japan	CHIZUKO HAYAKAWA is Professor, Saga University, Japan. She earned a Ph.D. (Law), from University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2006. She had been Associate Professor, Iwate University, Japan (Jan. 2007 to March 2013). Her research focuses on Japan’s foreign worker policies. She has written extensively on immigration policy and integration policy regarding foreign workers. She is the author of “GAIKOKUJIN RODO NO HOSEISAKU” [LAW AND POLICY ON FOREIGN WORKERS] (Shinzansha, 2008), and “GAIKOKUJIN RODOSHA TO HO” [FOREIGN WORKERS AND THE LAW], (Shinzansha, 2020) [the 35th OKINAGA Award- wining work].
	Chokchai Suttawet Secretary, Labour Law Society (Thailand) Labour Law Society (Thailand) Thailand ✉️chokchaisuttawet@gmail.com	Chokchai Suttawet is a senior labour lecturer serving as a secretary of the Labour Law Society (Thailand) and a chairperson of the Doctoral Program in Social Welfare Administration, Faculty of Social Work and Social Welafre, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University
	Chotika Wittayawarakul Assistance Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️chotika.w@chula.ac.th	Chotika Wittayawarakul is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University. She has taught various subjects of international law, including international economic law, international investment law and private international law.
	Christiana Cleridou Adjunct Lecturer and Government Officer University of Cyprus Cyprus ✉️christiana.cleridou@gmail.com	Dr Christiana Cleridou is a graduate of University of Bristol (PhD; LLM International law; LLB), King’s College London (MA distinction European Law), University of Oxford (Oxford Women’s Leadership Development Programme Certificate) and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Law, University of Cyprus. Her thesis on the role of female voices in shaping and implementing hard and soft law relating to equal pay at the EU and Cypriot level was shortlisted for the 2019 ETUC Brian Bercusson Award on European labour law. Dr Cleridou has extensive experience in teaching and practicing law in Cyprus and the UK. She is a gender equality and labour law expert and has presented her work in numerous international conferences.
	Christina Inglis Chief Judge of the Employment Court of New Zealand Employment Court of New Zealand New Zealand	Chief Judge Christina Inglis was sworn in as Kaiwhakawā o Te Kōti Take Mahi o Aotearoa ǀ the Employment Court of New Zealand, in 2011 and appointed as Kaiwhakawā Matua ǀ Chief Judge, on 10 July 2017. She holds an LLM (Hons) from Victoria University and an MA (Hons) from Canterbury University. She was a Crown Counsel at Crown Law for many years, with a primary focus on civil litigation, public law and employment law. Most recently she led the Human Rights Team at Crown Law.While in practice she appeared in most courts and tribunals. Chief Judge Inglis was formerly on the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice; is a member of the Access to Justice Advisory Group, a joint initiative of the Chief Justice and Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice; was Chair of Te Awa Tuia Tangata, the Heads of Bench judicial diversity committee, for three years; and is a member of the Heads of Bench Conduct Advisory Committee and the Future Courts Steering Group. In 2023 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Te Herenga Waka ǀ Victoria University in recognition of her contribution to the law.
	Christina Hiessl Professor KU Leuven Belgium ✉️christina.hiessl@kuleuven.be	Christina Hiessl (Hießl) is Professor of Labour Law at KU Leuven (Belgium), Invited Professor of Social Welfare at Yonsei University (Seoul), and Consulting Expert of the European Commission’s Centre of Expertise in the Field of Labour Law (ECE). She has worked and/or studied in eight countries, focusing on comparative social law and policy research. She is associate editor of the European Labour Law Journal, scientific advisory board member of the Frankfurt Law Review, European correspondent of the 국제사회보장리뷰 (Int'l Social Security Review), jury president of the Jura Falconis master thesis prize programme and managing board member of the honours programme “KU Leuven Engage”.
	Christopher M Roberts Associate Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong ✉️christopher.roberts@cuhk.edu.hk	Professor Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Roberts’ research focuses on the evolution of public order legality, human and workers’ rights and the idea of development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century British Empire and at the international level. Professor Roberts is the Chair of the Transnational Legal History Group within the Law Faculty’s Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law.
	Colin Ferguson Fenwick ILO Thailand	Labour lawyer and senior ILO Official. Former faculty member at Melbourne Law School.
	Consuelo Chacartegui Professor University Pompeu Fabra Spain ✉️chelo.chacartegui@upf.edu	Dr. Consuelo Chacartegui is full professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She received her PhD in law from the UPF in 1998 with the PhD dissertation on Temporary Work Agencies and Contract of Employment, obtaining Excellent Cum Laude (unanimity). She is member of the Research Group in Labour Law and Social Security Law (GREDTISS) in the UPF. Her current research includes the areas of human rights at work and environmental sustainability. She has been principal investigator of different projects, co-funded by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, and the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Universities.
	Cristina Mihes independent expert independent expert Romania ✉️mihesec24@gmail.com	Ms Cristina Mihes is a former Head of Labour Law and Reform Unit at ILO HQ in Geneva. LABOURLAW provides integrated, proactive policy advice on what labour law and dispute resolution systems can do, based on global and regional comparative law and practice.Ms. Mihes has been with the ILO for 25 years. Before to her assignment as Head of LABOURLAW, Ms. Mihes was the Senior Specialist in Social Dialogue and Labour Law in the ILO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe. In this capacity she was responsible for devising, coordination and delivery of technical assistance in labour law and industrial relations reforms, as well as in the area of social dialogue, labour dispute resolution and international labour standards in Central and Eastern European countries, including EU member states and candidate countries to the EU. Ms. Mihes has led research projects and authored, co-authored or edited a number of ILO studies and reports, technical publications and training guides on topics related, inter alia, to labour law reform, employment relationship and non-standard forms of employment, and labour dispute resolution institutions. MS. Mihes holds a PH. D. in International Labour Law, a M.A in Public Administration and a BSc in Chemical Engineering.
	Csaba Szabo PhD student Central European Academy Hungary ✉️szabocsaba85@yahoo.com	Csaba Szabo is a PhD candidate in law in Hungary and a junior researcher at the Central European Academy. Originally from Romania, he focuses on EU and international labour and social security law, with a particular interest in the rights of platform workers. His doctoral research analyses the evolving regulatory framework for platform work, including the proposed EU Directive. He also lectures on European Labour Law at Sapientia University of Transylvania and holds master’s degrees in European Private Law and European Public Law. His work explores the intersection of labour rights, social protection, and legal harmonisation in Central Europe.
	Cynthia Estlund Professor New York University School of Law Usa	Cynthia Estlund is the Crystal Eastman Professor at NYU School of Law. Her writings on labor and employment include four books—Automation Anxiety: Why and How to Save Work (Oxford, 2021), A New Deal for China’s Workers? (Harvard, 2017); Regoverning the Workplace (Yale, 2010); and Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford, 2003)—as well as two co-edited volumes, and over eighty articles, book chapters, and essays. She graduated from Lawrence University (BA) and Yale Law School (JD). Before coming to NYU, she taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School.
	Daiyoung Oh Associate Professor Jeju National University South Korea ✉️dyoh@jejunu.ac.kr	He has worked at Kim & Chang, one of the largest law firms in Korea as a senior attorney, and at Coupang, an e-commerce company as a legal executive . He is currently teaching labor and social security law at Jeju National University and is interested in socio-legal responses to an aging society.
	Damla Kaynar KıRoğLu PhD student Hacettepe University TüRkiye ✉️kaynardamla@gmail.com	Damla Kaynar Kıroğlu graduated as the top of her class from Hacettepe University's Faculty of Law in 2019. In the same year, she began her master's degree in Labour and Social Security Law at Hacettepe University and completed it with a thesis titled "On-Call Work in Turkish Law." In 2022, she commenced her doctoral studies at the same university. Since 2020, she has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Labour and Social Security Law at Hacettepe University. Her research focuses on sustainability, new forms of work, decent work, discrimination, and various other topics.
	Daniel Ulber Professor Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), University of Trier Germany	Professor Dr. Daniel Ulber is the incumbent Director of the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union, as well as the holder of the Chair of European Labour Law and Civil Law at the University of Trier, Germany. His research concerns the interfaces of labour law with Union law, international law and constitutional law. He previously worked at the Universities of Halle and Cologne and at the Federal Constitutional Court. He is author of numerous commentaries, handbook articles and articles. His research focuses especially on collective labour law, fundamental rights and working time law.
	Daniela Izzi Professor University of Turin Italy ✉️daniela.izzi@unito.it	Daniela Izzi (PhD from the University of Bologna) is full professor of Labour Law at the University of Turin. Her research has mainly focused on anti-discrimination law and workers’ protection in outsourcing processes, always adopting a European perspective. She is the author of two monographs (Jovene, 2005, which received the Massimo D’Antona Award for the best first labour law book in Italy, and Giappichelli, 2018) and of several publications in top-tier national journals. She is also co-author of a handbook on European Union Labour Law (Cedam-Wolters Kluwer, latest edition 2023) with M. Aimo, M. Roccella, T. Treu.
	Darcy L Davison-Roberts Lecturer The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong ✉️dldavrob@hku.hk	Darcy Lynn Davison-Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, where she teaches employment and labour law. Her research examines the legal regulation of non-standard work, gendered precarity, and the intersection of labour and equality law in Hong Kong and comparative contexts. She has published on precarious employment and LGBTQ+ rights. Current projects include a monograph on the employment law of Hong Kong and China, a policy-focused paper on the reform of the continuous contract concept in Hong Kong and a paper in progress on forced marriage as a form of labour exploitation. Her work combines doctrinal and socio-legal methods.
	David Cabrelli Professor University of Edinburgh United Kingdom ✉️david.cabrelli@ed.ac.uk	David Cabrelli is the Professor of Labour Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the fields of labour, employment and discrimination law at the national and comparative level. His research has been cited with approval by the UK Supreme Court, as well as the Hong Kong High Court and the Federal Court of Australia. His work is also frequently cited by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission, as well as the UK House of Commons Library and the ILO. David is the author of one of the leading student textbooks on Employment Law in the United Kingdom. He has also recently produced a book for the general public on Employment Law, which has been published under the auspices of OUP’s popular Very Short Introductions book series.
	David John Dominic Welsh Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Solidarity Center AFL-CIO Thailand ✉️dwelsh@solidaritycenter.org
	DáVid Petri PhD student Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary Hungary ✉️petri.david93@gmail.com	It has been three and a half years since I am a PhD candidate and deputy lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. My thesis for the PhD’s degree is the employer’s liability for occupational diseases. Besides my theoretical activities I work as a trainee judge in the Labour Law Division on second instance at the Regional Court of Appeal in Budapest.
	Dionysia Kang PhD student Åbo Akademi University Finland	Dionysia Kang is a PhD Researcher in Public International Law at the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University. Her current research focuses on the food systems in Finland. Using qualitative methods, she finds out how migration laws foster the racial structure that underlies exploitative work conditions. Informed by the prior academic background in Sociology and Gender Studies, she adopts interdisciplinary approaches with a decolonial feminist praxis.
	Dominique Allen Associate Professor Monash University Australia ✉️dominique.allen@monash.edu	Dominique Allen is an Associate Professor of law at Monash University where she teaches employment law. Dominique is a socio-legal researcher and has published widely in Australia and internationally on anti-discrimination law, equality, positive duties, sexual harassment and the role of ADR in resolving legal disputes. She co-authors ‘Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law’ with Neil Rees and Simon Rice (The Federation Press, 2018) and is currently conducting a large research project about resolving human rights disputes.
	Douglas Brodie Professor University of Strathclyde Uk	I am a UK labour lawyer with a particular interest in the law of the employment contract. I also write on the law of tort.
	Edo Eshet Associate Professor Sapir Law School Israel ✉️eshete@sapir.ac.il	Dr. Eshet serves as the dean of Sapir Law School in Israel. His research focuses on collective representation, labor law, and comparative labor law.
	Einat Albin Professor Hebrew University Israel ✉️einat.albin@mail.huji.ac.il	Prof. Einat Albin is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in labour law. Her research focuses on labour rights in the service economy, the protection of personal data, and the regulation of AI systems in the workplace. She has published widely in leading international law journals and has received numerous prestigious awards and honours. Her forthcoming book, Customers at Work, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025. Prof. Albin leads the major research initiative The AI Network@Work and is currently editing a special issue of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal on privacy and personal data protection in the workplace. She also serves as co-editor of Work, Society and Law, Israel’s leading labour law journal.
	Elena Gerasimova Labour Law and International Labour Standards Specialist International Labour Organization India ✉️gerasimovae@ilo.org	Dr. Elena Gerasimova is a Labour Law and Labour Standards Specialist with the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia, based in New Delhi. After joining the ILO in 2018, she served as an ILS Specialist with the ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries. Elena holds a master’s degree and PhD in law from Moscow State University. Before joining the ILO, she was an associate professor and head of the Labour Law Department at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” and co-founder and director of the Center for Social and Labour Rights in Moscow.
	Eliza Maniewska Assistance Professor University of Warsaw Poland ✉️e.maniewska@wpia.uw.edu.pl	Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Law. MA in philosophy 1996, MA in law 1997, and PhD in law (2013). Member of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland's Research and Analyses Office from 2009 to 2023. Author of approximately 200 publications. Organizer of National Conferences: "Constitutional principles, human rights and EU principles and the model of the employment relationship" (University of Warsaw, October 14, 2022); Constitutional argumentation in court jurisprudence (Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland, November 18, 2016). 2013-2020 Editor of Newsletter of The Supreme Court Of The Republic Of Poland.
	Ema Moolchand PhD student RMIT University Australia ✉️ema.moolchand@ymail.com	Ema Moolchand is a legal scholar and lawyer specialising in finance law, corporate governance, and workplace law. Ema has completed her BA (Hons) in Law Management in Mauritius. She was offered a scholarship to pursue her LL.M in Global Business Law and Juris Doctor at La Trobe University, where she graduated with First Class Honours. Ema was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria as a Lawyer in 2020. Her current research as a PhD(Law) candidate at RMIT University centers on modern slavery and gender issues within Australian supply chains, where she applies a socio-legal approach to highlight vulnerable workers' experiences. Her scholarly achievements, including a book chapter and several peer-reviewed journal articles and reports, have been recognised with prestigious awards such as the RMIT Excellence Scholarship, CRIMT Scholarship from the University of Montreal, and first place in the KPMG Asia-Pacific Legal Essay Competition organised in 2023.Ema’s professional background includes significant experience as a Senior Lawyer at KPMG, where she provided legal advice on a range of complex matters involving banking and finance law, corporate governance, risk management, ASIC compliance and employment law . Her work has also involved extensive research and policy analysis at the Fair Work Commission, contributing to the development of workplace laws and consolidation of the 121 modern awards in Australia. Ema’s commitment to advancing legal knowledge in her fields of expertise is further evidenced by her active participation in academic and professional communities, including the Victorian Women Lawyers and the RMIT Business & Human Rights Centre.
	Emanuele Menegatti Professor University of Bologna Italy ✉️e.menegatti@unibo.it	Emanuele Menegatti is a Full Professor of Labour Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Social Policy. His main areas of expertise are comparative labour law and European Union labour law. He is also a member of the Doctoral College in European Union Law at the University of Bologna. He has been a visiting professor at several foreign universities, including the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California (San Francisco), the College of Law at the University of Illinois (USA), and the Sydney University Law School. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Labour Law e-Journal
	Emily Rose Associate Professor University of Birmingham United Kingdom ✉️e.rose.4@bham.ac.uk	Emily Rose researches the regulation of work. She adopts a social scientific approach to this inquiry, drawing on social and legal theory and engaging in empirical investigation. In her research, Dr Rose explores the way that law and other forms of state-initiated governance constitute labour markets and shape and constitute workers. Her research also considers how emerging forms of work, such as innovation labour, and the managerial practices seeking to extract that labour, interact with labour law.
	Ewan Mcgaughey Professor King's College, London United Kingdom ✉️ewan.mcgaughey@kcl.ac.uk	Ewan has worked in the labour movement is whole life, and is a Professor of Law at King's College, London. He is author of A Casebook on Labour Law (2019), and numerous articles, particularly on worker democracy, codetermination, the scope of employment, and agency workers. He has co-authored several political platforms in the UK, a presidential platform in the US, and in 2023 narrowly lost election to be general secretary of the university trade union. He also teaches public service regulation, and believes democracy and socialism are humanity's greatest hopes for peace and social justice.
	Fabrizio Ferraro Associate Professor Università eCampus Italy ✉️fabrizio.ferraro@uniroma1.it	Associate Professor at eCampus University, Lawyer, former Researcher and PhD in Labour Law in the Sapienza University of Rome and Vice President (since 2019) of the Commission for the Certification of employment contracts of Sapienza University of Rome
	Fahmi Panimbang Associate Researcher Sedane Labour Resource Centre (LIPS/Lembaga Informasi Perburuhan Sedane) Indonesia ✉️fahmi.panimbang@gmail.com	Fahmi Panimbang is a dedicated labor rights activist and researcher from Indonesia with over 20 years of experience advocating for workers' rights across Southeast Asia. He has worked to address labor exploitation, poor working conditions, and challenges faced by migrant workers, striving to support and empower marginalized workers. From 2010 to 2014, he coordinated the Asian Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network (ATNC Network), contributing to research and advocacy efforts to improve labor rights. His work has helped expose labor abuses in global supply chains and encourage accountability from corporations and governments.
	Federico Fusco Assistance Professor Alfaisal University Saudi Arabia ✉️ffusco@alfaisal.edu	Dr Federico Fusco is an Assistant Professor of Law at Alfaisal University in Riyadh and a qualified lawyer in Italy. He holds a PhD in Law and Economics and has conducted extensive research on labour law, with a particular focus on the impact of digitalisation and artificial intelligence on employment relations. His work explores comparative and transnational regulatory frameworks, with recent publications addressing the intersection of technology, workplace rights, and policy reform. Dr Fusco has presented his research at numerous international conferences, including those of the LLRN and ISLSSL, contributing actively to global academic discourse.
	Femke Laagland Professor Radboud University Netherlands	Femke Laagland is a professor of European Labour Law in the Netherlands.
	Fernanda De MendonçA Melo PhD student Federal University of Minas Gerais Brazil ✉️fernanda.mendoncamelo@gmail.com	Fernanda de Mendonça Melo is a lawyer and PhD candidate in Law at UFMG, specializing in forced labor, corporate accountability, and sustainable supply chains. She is a researcher at the UFMG Clinic on Slave Labor and Human Trafficking, with experience in advocacy, empirical research, and strategic litigation. She has presented her work at international conferences such as LLRN and LERA, and collaborates with institutions like the ILO and the Brazilian Labor Prosecution Office. Her work aims to promote decent work and human rights through the articulation of academia, public institutions, and civil society.
	Flaminia De Giuli Lecturer Sapienza University Italy ✉️flaminia.degiuli@uniroma1.it	Flaminia De Giuli is a PhD candidate in Private Autonomy, Business, Labour and Protection of Rights in the European and International Perspective, Labour Law Curriculum, at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza defending a thesis on the temporal effectiveness of the collective agreement. She has contributed to specialized legal journals. She participated also in national and international conferences. She is qualified to be a lawyer.
	Frances Natalie Flanagan Lecturer University of Technology Sydney Australia ✉️frances.flanagan@uts.edu.au	Frances Flanagan is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She has an interdisciplinary background in law and history and her research is at the intersection of labour law, environmental crisis and changing formations of technology, gender and migration.
	Francisco Medina Professor University of Seville Spain ✉️fjmedina@us.es	Full Professor of Organizational Psychology. University of Seville. My interest are Occupational Health Psychology, specially with vulnerable employees, and conflict resolution.
	Fulan Yue PhD student Renmin University of China & LMU Munich China & Germany	Yue Fulan, a joint PhD candidate of Renmin University of China and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with primary research interests in labor law and comparative law.
	Gaabriel Tavits Professor UNIVERSITY OF TARTU Estonia ✉️gaabriel.tavits@ut.ee	Gaabriel Tavits is professor of Social Law at the School of Law of the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has been researching and teaching labour law and social security law. Since 2005, he has been a member of the European Labour Law Restatement Network. During the last decade, he has also been a national expert in the European Labour Law Network. The main activity has been the preparation of various thematic reports on the implementation of European Union directives in Estonia (posted workers, fixed term employment contracts, employment conditions of care workers etc.).
	Gabor Kartyas Associate Professor Pazmany Peter Catholic University Hungary ✉️kartyas.gabor@jak.ppke.hu	Gábor Kártyás is Associate Professor at the Labour Law Department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). He has been involved in a number of international research projects, including the Digilare project ( [ http://www.digilare.eu/ | www.digilare.eu ] ), the European Trade Union Institution (migrant workers) and Eurofound (new forms of employment). Between 2018 and 2021 he supported the labour law jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hungary ( K úria) as Advocate General. During his 20-year academic career, he has taught courses on Hungarian and EU labour law, atypical employment and collective labour relations.
	Gaia Zanotti PhD student University of Edinburgh United Kingdom ✉️g.zanotti-1@sms.ed.ac.uk	Gaia Zanotti is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, where she is currently working on her doctoral thesis. She earned her LLB from the University of Exeter in 2020 and completed an LLM in Human Rights Law at Queen Mary University of London, graduating with distinction in 2021. Her research focuses on international labour law, human rights, and migration, with specific interest in the economic regulation of refugee law and the right to work.
	Gianluca Giampà Lecturer Sapienza University of Rome Italy ✉️gianluca.giampa@uniroma1.it	Gianluca Giampà is a research fellow in Labour Law at Sapienza University of Rome. He earned his PhD from the same university in 2024. He has published articles and other contributions in the fields of Labour Law and Trade Union Law.
	Gillian Lester Professor Columbia Law School Usa ✉️glester@law.columbia.edu	Gillian Lester is the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York. From 2015 to 2024, she served as Columbia Law School’s dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. Prior to joining Columbia, Lester served on the faculty of the University of California, first at UCLA and later at Berkeley Law School, where she was interim dean from 2012 to 2014. Lester’s scholarship focuses on workplace law, welfare state design, public finance policy, and distributive justice. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute.
	Giovana Leite Lawyer/Researcher Slave Labor and Human Trafficking Clinic of Federal University of Minas Gerais (CTETP-UFMG)/ ChainGE Lab Brazil ✉️giovanaprsl@gmail.com	She is a lawyer and holds a master's degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), specializing in Access to Justice, Human Rights, and Conflict Resolution. She works at the UFMG Clinic on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking as a lawyer and researcher, leading legal assistance projects and policy development. She is also a researcher at the Higher School of the Federal Public Ministry (ESMPU) and the ChainGE Lab, a research group affiliated with Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the European Research Council (ERC). Her focus is on access to justice, labor rights, decent work and human rights.
	Giovanna Zampieri PhD student Università degli studi di Padova Italy ✉️giovanna.zampieri@phd.unipd.it	Born in Mestre in 1995, I graduated in law at the University of Milano-Bicocca with a thesis entitled ‘Staff leasing between employment relationship and labour market’. I then obtained a Diploma from the School of Specialisation for Legal Professions at the University of Padua. Currently, I am in my third year of a PhD in labour law at the University of Padua. As part of my PhD, I am focusing on issues related to the protection of workers with disabilities and reasonable accommodation.
	Giovanni Gaudio Researcher in Tenure Track (RTT) University of Turin Italy ✉️giovanni.gaudio@live.com	Giovanni is a Researcher in Tenure Track (RTT) in Labour Law at the University of Turin. He was previously a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Turin (2023–2025) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2019–2023), and served as a Teaching Fellow at Bocconi University (2017–2022). Alongside his academic career, he practiced law for over a decade as a labour law attornery. His academic work has been recognised with the Marco Biagi Award (2019, best international paper by an early-career scholar) and the Marco Biagi Prize (2020, best PhD thesis in Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Italy).
	Giovanni Orlandini Professor University of Siena Italy ✉️orlandini11@unisi.it	Giovanni Orlandini is full professor of Labour Law at the Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Siena (Italy). His research activity has been devoted in particular to the study of European and international labour law. In these areas he has contributed to several projects of the European Commission and participated in international research groups. An expert on trade union rights, he is legal advisor to the CGIL and member of the TTUR-group (ETUI). He has published books on the right to strike and the free movement of workers and several articles on European and Italian labour law issues. He is the scientific director of the online newsletter “Diritti&Lavoro Flash”.He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Giornale di diritto del lavoro e di relazioni industriali and of the Scientific Committee of Rivista giuridica del lavoro.
	Giuditta Marvelli Corriere della Sera Italy	Economic Reporter for Corriere della Sera (Italian newspaper)
	Giulia Perri PhD student La Sapienza University Italy ✉️giulia.perri@uniroma1.it	Giulia Perri is a first year PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome, enrolled in the XL cycle of the PhD program in Labor Law. Her research fields focus primarily on health and safety at work, discrimination and biolaw. She has contributed in some specialized legal journals. She participated also in national and international conferences.
	Gordon Anderson Professor Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand ✉️gordon.anderson@vuw.ac.nz	Gordon is an Emeritus Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research has focused on the evolution of labour law in that country and on the law of unjustified dismissal. He is joint author (with Dawn Duncan ) of "Employment Law in Aotearoa/New Zealand" and (with Joellen Munton Riley and Douglas Brodie) two books on employment law in common law jurisdictions: "The Common Law Employment Relationship" and "Brave New World of Employment."
	Grace James Professor University of Reading Uk ✉️c.g.james@reading.ac.uk	Grace James is a Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. Recognised for her research relating to pregnancy-related discrimination and maternity/parental rights Grace has published widely in this field (and others). More recently, she is Co-I on a Nuffield Foundation funded research project - 'Maternal wellbeing: infant feeding and return to paid work' (see https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/maternal-wellbeing-infant-feeding-return-to-work).
	Guan Chiau Chiou Assistance Professor Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan	Chiou, Guan Chiau is an Assistant Professor at Chung Yuan Christian University and holds a J.S.D. from National Chengchi University. He also serves as a Board Member of the Taiwan Labor Law Association. Dr. Chiou has extensive managerial experience, having previously worked in legal and human resources management roles at a Japanese corporation in Taiwan. His current research primarily focuses on workplace bullying and industrial disputes, addressing critical issues in contemporary labor relations.
	Guotong Shen PhD student Maastricht University Netherlands	Guotong Shen is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. Her PhD project concerns employee participation in corporations from a law and economics perspective. Her research interests are law and economics, labour and social security, empirical legal studies, and Chinese law.
	Guy Mundlak Professor Tel-Aviv University Israel ✉️mundlak@tauex.tau.ac.il	Guy Mundlak is a professor of labor law and work relations, holding a joint position at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law and Department of Labor Studies. He served as the head of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, head of the doctoral program at the law school, chair of the Labor Studies Department and currently serving as the head of the school for Social and Policy Studies (Sociology and Anthropology, Public Policy, Dispute Resolution and Mediation, Labor Studies, Communications, Climate and Sustainable Development).His Work includes theoretical and comparative studies of labor law and industrial relations.
	Guy Davidov Professor Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel ✉️guy.davidov@mail.huji.ac.il	Guy Davidov is the Elias Lieberman Professor of Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the founder and first Chair of the LLRN (2011-2015), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (2015-2020). His book A Purposive Approach to Labour Law was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He has also co-edited Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law (with Langille, 2006), The Idea of Labour Law (with Langille, 2011), and the Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work (with Langille and Lester, 2024).
	Halefom Abraha Assistance Professor Utrecht University Netherlands ✉️h.h.abraha@uu.nl	Halefom H. Abraha is an Assistant Professor at the International and European Law (IER) Department of the Utrecht School of Law. Halefom is a member of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). His research and teaching interests focus on Digital Human Rights including privacy, data protection and the regulation of AI and algorithmic management in the labour market.
	Han Wei Wang Lecturer School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) Taiwan	Lecturer. School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
	Helga Spadina Associate Professor University of Osijek, Faculty of Law Croatia ✉️hspadina@pravos.hr	Helga Špadina is professor of law the Faculty of Law Osijek, Croatia. She specialized migration lawn, international law, human rights law, labor and social law and anti-discrimination law. She has working experience with the UN agencies in South-East Europe and Middle East. Her international assignments focused on migration management, international refugee law, human rights protection, anti-human trafficking, and legal protection capacity building. She regularly provides expert reports and conducts analysis of legislation to UN agencies, international organizations and the EU.
	Hideyuki Morito Professor Keio University Law School Japan	Professor of Law (Labor and Employment Law, Social Security Law, Retirement Benefit Law). Social Security Council, Subcommittee for Corporate and Individual Pensions, chairperson (2019 - present, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan)
	Hila Shamir Professor Tel Aviv University, PI ChainGE Lab (ERC) Israel ✉️hshamir@tauex.tau.ac.il	Hila Shamir is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University, specializing in Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law. Her work focuses on workers in global value chains, human trafficking, and gender equality. She has taught at leading law schools including Harvard, Berkeley, and Georgetown. Shamir received two ERC grants: one for TraffLab (2018–2023), on labor approaches to trafficking, and one for ChainGE Lab (2024–2029), exploring labor law in supply chain capitalism. She co-authored and edited Governance Feminism volumes (2018, 2019), and is co-editing Modern Slavery and Global Value Chains (Cambridge, forthcoming 2025).
	Hillol Saha Associate Professor Department of Law, Premier University Bangladesh ✉️hillolpu@gmail.com	Hillol Saha is an Associate Professor of Law at Premier University, Bangladesh, with over 12 years of experience teaching labour law. His research focuses on trade union rights, international labour standards, occupational safety, and child labour. He has participated in the ILO’s Curriculum Exchange and International Labour Standards training programs, contributing actively to labour law education reform in Bangladesh. Hillol is deeply committed to academic collaboration and knowledge sharing. Through the LLRN platform, he looks forward to engaging with global scholars, exchanging insights, and building lasting networks in the field of labour law.
	Hiroyo Tokoro Professor Fukuoka University Japan ✉️tokoro@fukuoka-u.ac.jp	A native of Hokkaido, Professor Tokoro worked for NTT Group, a leading telecommunications company, prior to joining Fukuoka University Faculty of Law in 2014. She lectures on Japanese labor and employment law.Professor Tokoro is an active member of the Fukuoka Labor Relations Commission, a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare mediator, and since 2022, the chairperson of the Fukuoka Labor Policy Council.Her interest in workplace inclusion matters and gender and disability discrimination has led Professor Tokoro to pursue comparative studies of Canadian and American labor and employment law issues.
	Hochang Roh Associate Professor hoseo university South Korea ✉️hcroh@hoseo.edu	He completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in law at Seoul National University in Korea.He researches and teaches labor law and social security law. He is currently a professor at Hoseo University and is active in the Korean Society of Labor Law, the Korean Society of Social Security Law, and working as judge in the labor relation commission.
	Hyunju Cho Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Institute of Workers' Rights South Korea	Attorney at law of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Legal CenterResearcher of Institute of Workers' Rights
	Ilona Voitkovska PhD student Maqsut Narikbayev KAZGUU University Kazakhstan ✉️ivoitkovskaia@kazguu.kz	Ilona Voitkovska, a former Ukrainian lawyer. From 2018 to 2022 she had been researching labour standards in post-Soviet countries in comparison with international labour standards in Moscow State Law University named by O. Kutafin. Author and co-author of 20 publications. Since 2022 she has been preparing her PhD thesis at Maqsut Narikbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan). The topic of her thesis is related to mutual termination of employment contracts, including non-competition clauses and golden parachutes in post-Soviet countries in comparison with the UK, USA and France. She has been a senior lecturer at MNU since 2023, teaching labour law to non-law students.
	Ina Schimmeroth PhD student University of Hamburg Germany ✉️ina.schimmeroth@uni-hamburg.de	Ina is a fully qualified German lawyer and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hamburg. She studied law at the University of Freiburg, Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, and the Free University of Berlin, specializing in labor law. Ina obtained an LL.M. in Transnational Law from King’s College London. Her main research interests focus on the transformations of labor law, particularly in the context of sustainability and the interconnections among national, supranational, and international levels within this field.
	Inga Thiemann Associate Professor University of Leicester United Kingdom	Dr Inga Thiemann is an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. She is a socio-legal scholar with research interests at labour law's intersections with criminal law, migration law, discrimination law and feminist theory. She is particularly interested in marginalised workers, feminised work and in issues of gender and migration.
	Ingrid Landau Associate Professor Monash University Australia ✉️ingrid.landau@monash.edu	Ingrid is an Associate Professor at Monash Business School, Monash University. She teaches and researches in the areas of employment law, transnational labour regulation, and business and human rights. She also works regularly as a consultant for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and for civil society organisations. Her recent book Human Rights Due Diligence and Labour Governance (Oxford University Press, 2023) examines human rights due diligence as a mechanism of transnational labour law.
	Intouch Siriwallop Lecturer Chulalongkorn University Thailand	Intouch is a lecturer at Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand). His areas of interest include public international law and the law of the sea.
	Ioannis Katsaroumpas Associate Professor ETUI and University of Sussex Belgium ✉️ioannis.katsaroumpas@gmail.com	Ioannis is a Senior Researcher in European Social and Labour Law at the European Trade Union Institute and an Associate Professor in Employment Law at the University of Sussex.
	Izabela Florczak Assistance Professor University of Lodz Poland ✉️iflorczak@wpia.uni.lodz.pl	Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz (Department of Labour Law, Social Security and Social Policy). Specialises in issues relating to forms of employment, atypical employment, migrant employment and social policies related to these areas
	Jajoon Coue International Labour Organization Thailand	International Standard Specialist
	Jakub Tomsej Associate Professor Charles University Czech Republic ✉️tomsej@prf.cuni.cz	Jakub Tomšej graduated from the Charles University in Prague where he currently works as an associate professor specialised in labour and non-discrimination law. Jakub acts as a Czech national expert in the European Equality Law Network, and has published several books and papers on the topic of discrimination. Besides his academic career, Jakub is a practising lawyer who successfully defended victims of discrimination in several lawsuits in Czechia.
	James Brudney Professor Fordham Law School United States ✉️jbrudney@fordham.edu	Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham University Law School; immediate past member ILO Committee of Experts; co-chair Public Review Board, United Auto Workers; formerly Professor of Law, The Ohio State University; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Oxford University; Chief Counsel and Staff Director, United States Senate Subcommittee on Labor; labor law attorney in private practice, Washington DC; law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, US Supreme Court.
	Janice Bellace Professor University of Pennsylvania United States ✉️bellace@wharton.upenn.edu	Samuel Blank Chair in Legal Studies Emerita at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs Wharton’s Tanoto ASEAN Initiative. She is currently president judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.Her recent publications focus on the application of international human rights, as expressed in core labour standards and labour clauses in trade agreements, and how these shape regulation and corporate behavior in global supply chains. Books include “Labour, Business and Human Rights Law” (Bellace & Haar, 2019), “The Right to Strike in International Law” (Jeffrey Vogt et al, 2020), and with James Brudney, a book on the ILO (Elgar, forthcoming 2025).
	Jaqueline Stein PhD student Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) Germany ✉️stein@iaaeu.de	After completing her law degrees in Berlin and Paris, Jaqueline Stein has been working on her PhD thesis on the collective rights of incarcerated workers and prisoner strikes since 2021. Part of her research took place during the course of research stays at the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) in Warsaw, Poland and at the UCLA School of Law, USA. In February 2025, she followed her supervisor Prof. Daniel Ulber to the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) where she continues to work as a researcher. Her areas of interest include collective labor law, European & international labor law, anti discrimination law, with a focus on atypical and vulnerable employment relationships.
	Jeffrey S Vogt Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Solidarity Center United States ✉️jvogt@solidaritycenter.org	Jeff Vogt is the Rule of Law Director of the Solidarity Center and co-founder of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network (www.ilawnetwork.com), a global network of worker rights legal practitioners. In 2022, Jeff was appointed to the ILO Governing Body and the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School (J.D. and L.L.M. in international and comparative law). Jeff is the editor and co-author of the book, The Right to Strike in International Law (Hart Publishing 2020) and co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming book, The Right to Strike Reimagined (Hart Publishing 2025).
	Jenny JuléN Votinius Professor Faculty of Law, Lund Univeristy Sweden ✉️jenny.julenvotinius@jur.lu.se	Jenny Julén Votinius has wide experience of interdisciplinary and international research collaboration on labour law research in comparative, EU and international settings. Her research integrates perspectives from social science and political philosophy in the legal analysis of Swedish and EU labour law and collective bargaining. She has been a visiting researcher at UCBerkeley, and Université Lumière Lyon 2, and serves in the European Commission Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality. Her main research areas are non-discrimination and implications of labour law for vulnerable groups, focusing particularly on work-family balance, young workers, digital work, and the aging workforce.
	Jihyeon Lee Master student Seoul National University South Korea ✉️ljh7120@naver.com	2023. 03. - 2025. 02. Master of law in Seoul National University * Employment Succession in Corporate Divisions: Focusing on the Employees’ Understanding and Cooperation Requirement
	Jin Ma PhD student Renmin University of China China ✉️majin0426@ruc.edu.cn	Ma Jin is a PhD candidate specializing in labor law and social security law at Renmin University of China. He is also enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Business and Corporate Law at Paris II University. He has conducted research at Paris I and Paris II universities. His work focuses on labor inspection litigation and trade union public interest litigation. He has presented at international conferences and contributed to national research projects. He holds a Chinese legal qualification (A-level) and is proficient in English (CET-6) and French (DELF B2).
	Jo Helme PhD student Oxford Uk ✉️joanna.helme@law.ox.ac.uk	Jo is the Judge Meron Scholar at the University of Oxford where she is in her final year of the PhD. Her research specialism are the 'humanisaiton of work' and internship regulation. She is a consultant for the European Parliament and teaches Employment Law at Oxford.
	Jo Hsiang Huang Assistance Professor National Tsing Hua University,Taiwan Taiwan ✉️johsiang@gapp.nthu.edu.tw	Graduated from National Taiwan University with a law degree. In the same year, received a scholarship from Think Global Education Trust Scholarship to pursue Master's and Doctoral degrees in Law at the University of Tokyo, Japan. After obtaining a doctoral degree, worked as a research assistant at the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT). Currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Taiwan Institute of Law for Science & Technology, National Tsing Hua University. Research areas cover civil property law, labor law. In recent years, has focused on cross-domain issues between labor law and competition law.
	Joanna Unterschuetz Associate Professor University of Business and Administration Poland ✉️joanna.unterschuetz@kadra.wsaib.pl	Joanna Unterschuetz, Ph.D. is a Professor at E. Kwiatkowski University of Administration and Business in Gdynia, where she currently heads the Department of Law. For over 20 years, she has specialized in labour law in its various dimensions. Her research interests include the protection of fundamental rights, collective labour law, criminal law safeguards for employees’ rights, new forms of employment, and the impact of new technologies on the world of work. She also explores the intersection between law and the arts.She is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including contributions to studies on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. As an Associated Senior Expert at the Polish Institute of Human Rights and Business, she collaborates on projects aimed at promoting awareness of human rights in corporate settings.
	Joellen Riley Munton Professor University of Technology Sydney Australia ✉️joellen.munton@uts.edu.au	Joellen Riley Munton has been teaching and researching in labour law since 1998. Her academic career includes six years (2013-2018) as Dean of Law at the University of Sydney. She has practised in the field as a consultant to boutique employment law firms, and is an author or coauthor of several books, most recently Employment Law for a Brave New World (with Douglas Brodie and Gordon Anderson) (Edward Elgar, 2025).
	John Howe Professor Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, Melbourne Law School Australia ✉️j.howe@unimelb.edu.au	Professor John Howe is Associate Dean (Research) at the Melbourne Law School, where he is a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Melbourne Regulation and Design Network. He is also a Board Director at the Victorian Workplace Injury Commission. John's research interests include labour law and policy, regulatory design, and social procurement. John is presently engaged in research on the history of Australian labour law and policy since 1940. He is also researching the regulatory enforcement of minimum employment standards in Australia and the plural regulation of labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
	Jonathan Lord Lecturer University of Salford Uk ✉️j.d.lord@salford.ac.uk	Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in HRM and the PGR Director at Salford Business School. His specialist research area focuses on Labour Law, focusing on how this is governed as well as how the protection of workers has developed over many centuries. He has research extensively around employment tribunals and their importance within the employment relationship. Jonathan has previously been a HR Director, Manager and Consultant, working across all three sectors. Specifically working within the transport and construction industries, as well as carrying out HR projects within the public and voluntary sector. Jonathan is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Member of the British Academy of Management and Industrial Law Society.
	Joo-Cheong Tham Professor Melbourne Law School Australia ✉️j.tham@unimelb.edu.au	Joo-Cheong Tham is a Professor at Melbourne Law School with expertise in labour law and public law. His scholarly publications include his books on Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford; Electoral Democracy: Australian Prospects ; The Funding of Political Parties: Where Now? ; Democracy, Social Justice and the Role of Trade Unions and Global Labor Migrations: New Directions . He has led two major reports for International IDEA, Climate Change and Democracy: Insights from Asia and the Pacific and Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem.
	Jorge Cavalcanti Boucinhas Filho Professor Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie Brazil ✉️jorge.filho@fgv.br	Jorge Cavalcanti Boucinhas Filho is the current Secretary General of the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law (www.islssl.org) and the representative of the Americas on the Executive Committee of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (https://ilo-ilera.org). He holds Chair No. 21 at the Brazilian Academy of Labor Law (www.andt.org.br), having served as its Director of International Relations from March 2022 to March 2024. He is a Professor of Labor Law at Mackenzie Presbyterian University and at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (EAESP-FGV), where he was the Assistant Director for Global Affairs. He was the General Director of the OAB SP School of Law from 2019 to 2021. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Revista LTr and is part of the Editorial Board of the Magister Journal of Labor Law, the Journal of State Law in Debate – Legal Journal of the PGE/PR, the Journal of Labor and Human Development – of the 15th Region PRT, the Journal of the Regional Labor Court of the 21st Region, and serves as a reviewer for various journals. He has authored several works, dozens of articles published in national and international legal journals, numerous chapters in collective works, and various entries for dictionaries on labor law, labor procedural law, and social security law as applied to labor law. He has presented numerous papers at regional, national, international, and world seminars and congresses and has been a speaker at various national and international events. He served as a member of the oral examination for the 1st Unified National Competition for entry into the Labor Judiciary and as a full member of the first phase of the 21st public competition for the position of Labor Prosecutor in 2019. He is a member of the São Paulo Lawyers Institute (IASP), the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB), the Latin American Institute of Labor Law and Social Security (ILTRAS), the Ibero-American Association of Labor Law and Social Security (AIDTSS), the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (IBDP), the São Paulo Lawyers Association (AASP), and the São Paulo Labor Lawyers Association (AATSP), being actively involved in all academic initiatives of these institutions. He graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, holds a specialization in Labor Law from Potiguar University – UnP, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Labor Law from the University of São Paulo – USP, with a post-doctorate at the Laboratoire de Droit et Changement Social at the Université de Nantes, France. He is the Vice Leader of the Research Group on Migration and International Labor Law (GEMDIT) at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP) and is part of the Research Group on Public Policies as a Tool for Effective Citizenship at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. He practices law in São Paulo.
	Jorn Kloostra Assistance Professor Radboud University Netherlands ✉️jorn.kloostra@ru.nl	Jorn Kloostra is a researcher and lecturer on labor law at Radboud University. He wrote a dissertation on platform work, focusing on labor law and competition law issues surrounding this topic.
	Judy (Ann) Fudge Professor McMaster University Canada ✉️fudgej@mcmaster.ca	Judy Fudge is a professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, Judy takes a socio-legal approach to studying work and labour and is committed to fostering a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing workers. She has worked with women’s groups, legal clinics, trade unions and the International Labour Organization. Her most recent work focuses on labour exploitation, modern slavery and unfree labour in the context of labour migration and global supply chains.
	Julia Lopez Professor upf Spain	Julia Lopez-Lopez has been Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Law School since 1996 and is the senoir member of the research group on Labour and Social Security Law GREDTISS. Her work has been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Russell Sage Foundation, Wolters Kluwert, Lavori i Diritto, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal . Her main research topics are principles and vàlues of labour law, collective labour rights, gender equality and social protection. Among her most recent publications are: Inscribing Solidarity in Labor Law: Promise and Limitations in Inscribing Solidarity: Debates in Labor Law and Beyond (ed.) ( 2022) Cambridge University Press) ; Pursuing democratic depth in an age of multinational power: the case of platform workers protests in Barenberg , and Cornell , A. (eds.) Handbook of Labor and Democracy, ( 2022) Cambidge University Press and Lopez Lopez, J. and Colás Neila , E. Parental and sick leave: talking about inclusive solidarity in The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work Davidod, G., Langille, B. and Lester, G. ( eds.) 2024.
	Julia Louise Tomassetti Lecturer Swinburne University of Technology Australia ✉️jtomassetti@swin.edu.au	Dr Julia Tomassetti is a Lecturer in the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. She is a legal scholar and sociologist with expertise in labour law, contracts, law and technology, and political economy. Dr Tomassetti has written widely about the platform economy and how courts make sense of the role of new information and communication technologies at work. Before coming to Melbourne, Dr Tomassetti was on the law faculty at the City University of Hong Kong. She is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
	Jun Nakagawa Professor Tokyo Keizai University Japan	Professor Jun Nakagawa have been researching disability law and policy in employment and social welfare, especially discrimination, reasonable acceommodation, quotas, from comparative perspectives. One of the recent focuses is on researching the uncertainty of Concluding Observations (CRPD) for the disability quotas by the UN Committee.
	June Namgoong Lecturer Korea Labor Institute South Korea ✉️junenamgoong@gmail.com	Dr June Namgoong is a Research Fellow and Director of the International Cooperation and Information Office at the Korea Labor Institute (KLI).He holds a Ph.D. in Law (University College London), an LLM (Vanderbilt University), and an LLB (Korea University).He has been teaching employment law, comparative and international (labour) law, and civil law at several universities in the UK and Korea.He serves as a public interest member in an adjudication committee (labour judge) at a regional labour relations commission (Chungbuk) and in Domestic Advisory Group and Civil Society Forum (EU-Korea FTA and UK-Korea FTA).
	Junhyeok Mun Assistance Professor Sungshin Women’s University South Korea ✉️jhmun@sungshin.ac.kr	Junhyeok MUN is an assistant professor at SungShin Women's University College of Law, in Seoul. He received his Ph.D. in social law from Seoul National University, and his main research topics are working hours, occupational safety&health, and employee representation.
	Kaitian Luo Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Anli Partners China ✉️kaitian.luo@outlook.com	Dr. Luo Kaitian (Kai) is the Head of Employment Law and ESG Practices at Anli Partners, the chief editor of the Cross-border Employment Compliance Journal, an adjunct professor at Peking University Law School, and an arbitrator. His practice and research interests encompass international labor standards, international employment, labor issues in FTAs, supply chains, ESG, and business and human rights. His book, Labor, Sovereignty, and Rule of Law, is notable for being China's first work focused on the legal application of labor clauses in FTAs. Dr. Luo has also held leadership positions in various academic and professional organizations and previously established KPMG's China Employment Law Practice.
	Kalina Arabadjieva Senior Researcher European Trade Union Institute Germany	Kalina Arabadjieva is a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. She has a PhD in labour law from the University of Oxford, and currently works on the topic of just transition, green industrial policy, and the interfaces between labour law and environmental law. She also works on gender equality and women's rights at work.
	Kanaphon Chanhom Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️kanaphon.c@chula.ac.th	Dr. Kanaphon Chanhom is a law professor currently serving as Vice President for Legal and Human Resources Affairs at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His areas of expertise include criminal law, legal history, and legal research methodology. His scholarly work examines the intersection of traditional legal principles and contemporary reforms, with an emphasis on historical development and comparative legal analysis. He plays an active role in shaping legal education and institutional policy, contributing to curriculum innovation and academic leadership. His research fosters a deeper understanding of legal institutions and seeks to integrate historical insight with practical relevance in the evolution of modern legal systems.
	Kanongnij Sribuaiam Associate Professor Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️ajarnnoi@gmail.com	Over 41 years of work experience as an environmental law expert, Dr. Kanongnij has been an advocate on environmental justice. In parallel to her teaching job as Associate Professor at Chulalongkorn Law Faculty, she is also the President of the Clean Air Network for Health Association. She drafted the citizen-led Clean Air Bill and was appointed as the 1st Vice Chairperson of the Clean Air Bill Drafting Committee of the Thai Parliament.
	Katarzyna Sakowska Assistance Professor University of Białystok Poland	Dr. Katarzyna Sakowska is an assistance professor in the Department of Labor Law and Social Security at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. She received her doctorate in legal sciences in 2019. Her research interests focus on individual labor law and the impact of new technologies on the field of employment. She is the author of publications in the field of broadly defined employment.
	Katarzyna WełPa-ZająCzkowska PhD student University of Łodź Poland ✉️kataryna.welpa.zajaczkowska@edu.uni.lodz.pl	A PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Łódź, where since 2022 she has been working on her doctoral dissertation titled "Reducing Working Time as a Development Trend in Labor Law." Her research interests focus on working time, as well as atypical and flexible forms of employment, which is reflected in her publications. She actively participates in national and international conferences. She is also a member of the Polish Scientific Network of Labour Law and Social Security Cooperante.
	Kevin Kolben Professor Rutgers Business School United States ✉️kkolben@business.rutgers.edu	Kevin Kolben is a Professor of Business Law at Rutgers Business School. His research examines transnational labor regulation, international economic law, and supply chains. He also frequently consults with governments and international organizations. Kevin is currently serving on the U.S. slate of panelists for the USMCA's Facility-Specific Rapid Response Mechanism and has adjudicated three disputes between the U.S. and Mexico.
	Kingshuk Sarkar Associate Professor Goa Institute of Management India ✉️kingshuk71@hotmail.com	Dr Kingshuk Sarkar is an Associate Professor and Area Chair, General Management & Economics at the Goa Institute of Management, Goa. Dr Kingshuk Sarkar had worked for Govt. of West Bengal as a Labour Administrator for over two decades. He has done a PhD in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies & Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier he completed a Master’s in Economics from Kolkata University and MPhil in Economics from Jadavpur University. His areas of interest are plantation economics, labour economics, industrial relations, law and economics, labour administration, informal sector labour etc.
	Koji Kameda Associate Professor Kokushikan University Japan	Koji Kameda is an Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Kokushikan University in Japan. His research focuses on the elderly work and income security legislation. He is also an active attorney practicing labor and employment law.
	Laura Tebano Professor University of Naples Federico II Italy ✉️laura.tebano@unina.it	The paper I am presenting has been partially supported by the Italian PNRR MUR project PE0000013-FAIR
	Laurent Gamet Professor Université Paris 12 France ✉️laurent.gamet@u-pec.fr	Laurent Gamet is professor of Law at Université Paris 12 (France), Dean of the Faculty, and attorney at law at he Paris Bar
	Le Thu Nguyen Lecturer University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Vietnam ✉️thunl@vnu.edu.vn	Dr. Nguyen Le Thu is a lecturer in Labor Law at the University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. She obtained her PhD from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), with a dissertation focusing on the social security rights of migrant workers. Her academic interests include labor rights, social protection, and legal frameworks in the context of digital transformation and global mobility. Dr. Nguyen has participated in various international research projects and conferences related to labor law and comparative legal studies.
	Lilach Lurie Assistance Professor Tel-Aviv University Israel ✉️lilachlurie@tauex.tau.ac.il	Dr. Lilach Lurie is a senior lecturer and chair of the Department of Labor Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is also a faculty member at the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel-Aviv University. Her research spans the fields of employment law, labor law, pension and retirement, industrial relations and social security. Lurie has a Ph.D. in Law from Tel-Aviv University. She was a visiting researcher at Cornell University, Georgetown University and Brandeis University. Lurie’s articles were published in top international journals within her field. Her book Employment and Social Security Laws in the Twenty First Century was published by the Hebrew University Press. She has received numerous grants and prizes.
	Lilli Hasche PhD student Uni Bremen/HS RheinMain Germany ✉️lilli.hasche@uni-bremen.de	She studied political sciences, cultural studies and law and works in a research project on legal struggles in transational supply chains. In her phd project she resaerches the ambivalent role of contracts in global supply chains: How do contracts reproduce exploitative working conditions. How are they used as a tool to improve working conditions? She is associated with the Graduate School for Contradiction Studies (U Bremen) and the ChainGE Lab (U Tel Aviv).
	Lizzie (Mary) Barmes Professor Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom ✉️lizzie.barmes@qmul.ac.uk	I am Professor of Labour Law at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Director of the School of Law's Centre for Research on Law Equality and Diversity. My main current research interests are in positive or affirmative action at work, empirical investigation of the impact in practice of labour and equality law, discriminatory harassment and the use of NDAs/confidentiality agreements in relation to workplace misconduct, including harassment.
	Louie Zreik Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Moscow state university Israel ✉️zreik.louie.law.office@gmail.com	A lawyer by profession, I served as legal advisor to workers' organizations in Israel for 18 years. I have conducted extensive research and set legal precedents in labor law. My doctoral dissertation focuses on the status of custom and usage within the sources of labor law. I regularly lecture on Israeli labor law at international conferences and currently teach at Beit Berl College, having previously taught at the American University in Ramallah.
	Luca Ratti Associate Professor University of Luxembourg Luxembourg ✉️luca.ratti@uni.lu	Luca RATTI is an Associate Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law and Director of the Master in European Law at the University of Luxembourg. Between 2020 and 2023, he has coordinated the Horizon2020 project "WorkYP: Working, Yet Poor", focused on in-work poverty and European social citizenship. Between 2021 and 2024, he has also co-coordinated an interdisciplinary project on wellbeing at work (W@W), funded by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Luxembourg. He currently holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European labour law to research and teach on the Sustainability of the European Social Model (2022-2025).
	Luka Ticar Associate Professor University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law Slovenia ✉️luka.ticar@pf.uni-lj.si	He is well known labour law expert, publicist, researcher and professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in 2010. He was a member of a several European networks (subcontracting, free movement of workers, platform work,…). His main fields of research and pedagogic work are individual and collective labour relations, international and European labour Law, procedures of resolving labour disputes and Occupational safety and health at work. He has been employed at the faculty of law since 2001.
	łUkasz Pisarczyk Professor University of Silesia in Katowice Poland ✉️lukasz.pisarczyk@us.edu.pl	Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. 2019-2021 a member of the LLRN Steering Committee
	Maayan Niezna Lecturer University of Liverpool United Kingdom ✉️maayan.niezna@liverpool.ac.uk	Maayan Niezna is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Her socio-legal research focuses on trafficking for labour exploitation, the regulation of labour migration, and the rights of non-citizens. Her current project 'Work as a Site of Agency and a Site of Exploitation' compares the understanding of labour exploitation across policymakers, law enforcement agents and people with lived experience of exploitation, and was awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant. Her work has been cited by NGOs, policymakers, and courts and has been referred to in parliamentary committee meetings and national media.
	Madina Kanatkyzy Research assistant Maqsut Narikbayev University (KAZGUU) Kazakhstan, Astana	My name is Madina Kanatkyzy. I am a Master's student in Law at Maqsut Narikbayev University (KAZGUU), specializing in labour law. I am a research assistant at the Research School for Labour Law. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Law from Turan-Astana University, graduating with a GPA of 3.88. My professional experience includes internships at Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development, the Economic Investigation Department in Astana, and as a notary intern. I have presented research at national and international conferences, earning multiple awards. My academic interests focus on labor rights, international labor standards, and comparative legal studies.
	Malcolm Viraf Katrak PhD student Osgoode Hall Law School Canada ✉️malcolm7@yorku.ca	Malcolm Katrak is an Assistant Professor (on leave) at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is currently at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, as the John W. Graham and York Graduate Fellow. His research explores collective mobilization of workers, including informal and platform workers. Previously, he worked as a law clerk to Justice (Retd.) S.N. Variava, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India. He holds postgraduate degrees from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the University of Hamburg, and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.
	Manuelita Mancini Director Of Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Italy ✉️mancini@fondazionebrodolini.eu	Manuelita Mancini holds a degree in Philosophy, and studied as an international relations officer at the Italian Society for the International Organization (SIOI). In Fondazione Brodolini she coordinated the Social Justice area for seven years, managing research and multi-stakeholder intervention projects at local, national and international level and coordinating studies and research on labor and social inclusion policies mainly for the Directorate General for Employment of the European Commission, for the European Parliament, for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofund) and for the European Institute for Gender Equality (Eige). Manuelita Mancini is in the editorial board of the magazine Economia & Lavoro and is among the founders of the webzine inGenere.
	Marcin Wujczyk Professor Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Poland ✉️marcin.wujczyk@uj.edu.pl	Professor of labour law at the Jagiellonian University, former member of the European Committee of Social Rights
	Marco Peruzzi Associate Professor University of Verona Italy ✉️marco.peruzzi@univr.it	Marco Peruzzi is Associate Professor of Labour Law in the Department of Law of the University of Verona. His main areas of research include the impact of AI on employment law, protection of workers' personal data, health and safety at work, anti-discrimination law, gender pay equality, European social dialogue and transnational collective bargaining.
	Marco Biasi Associate Professor University of Milan Italy ✉️marco.biasi@unimi.it	Marco Biasi is an Associate Professor of Labour Law at the Law Department “Cesare Beccaria” of the University of Milan, Italy, where he teaches “Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law” (in English), “Comparative Labour Law” (in English) and “Employment Law in the Public Sector” (in Italian).Previously, after completing his PhD at Bocconi University of Milan in 2013, he was an Adjunct Professor of “European Social Law” and of “Comparative Industrial Relations Law” at Bocconi University and a Post-Doc researcher at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Law School of Stanford University in 2022, a Visiting Scholar at the ILR School of Cornell University in 2015. He was a Visiting PhD Candidate at Jena University in 2012. He authored three books, edited seven books and published several articles both in Italian and in English. His main fields of research are: labour law and technology; labour law and artificial intelligence; remedies and sanctions in employment law; dismissal protection policies; employee involvement in the management of companies; work regulation in the sports industry.
	Maria Emilia Millon Alderete PhD student ISES-CONICET/UNT Argentina ✉️millon.emilia@gmail.com	I´m Emilia Millón, I´m an economist specializing in feminist analyses. I´m a PhD student at University of Buenos Aires and Teaching Assistant at National University of Tucumán. Additionally, I´m actively involved in activist and research networks in the North of Argentina and Buenos Aires. Since April 2020, I have had a doctoral scholarship from CONICET. My PhD research focuses on the intersection of class, gender, and race in processes of inequality in the north or Argentina. I draw upon marxist analyses of the working class and integrate feminist perspectives from scholars like Federici and Latin American sociologists and anthropologists.
	Maria HemíLia Fonseca Associate Professor University of São Paulo Brazil ✉️mariahemilia@usp.br	Associated professor and researcher at the University of São Paulo, Law School of Ribeirão Preto, in the area of Development, Sustainability, Innovation and Professional Qualification Policies. PhD in Law (CNPq fellowship) from the Catholic University of São Paulo, with Sandwich Doctorate at the Universidad de Salamanca (CNPq fellowship). Master in Social Relations Law (LL.M) (CAPES fellowship) from the Catholic University of São Paulo. Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the Federal University of Uberlândia. Visitor Research at Columbia University (USA), Visiting Professor at Universidad de Salamanca (ES) and PUC-Perú (PE).
	Maria Odete Araujo PhD student Federal University of Pernambuco Brazil ✉️mariaodete81@gmail.com	Labor Judge in BrazilMember of the National Executive Committee to Combat Labor Exploitation in Conditions Analogous to Slavery and Human Trafficking at CNJPhD candidate in Labor Law at UFPEMember of the ChainGELab Research Group - Labor Law for a Global Value Chain EconomyMember of the Research Group Labor Law and Critical Social Theory (UFPE)
	Maria Rosaria Barbato Associate Professor Federal university of MinasGerais (UFMG) Brasil ✉️mrbarbato@hotmail.it	Labour Law Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), PhD from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Teaches in UFMG’s Law PhD, coordinated inter-institutional PhD with State University of Amazonas. Leads Labour in Movement research group, and an EU Jean Monnet Module on labour protection in the digital age. Founding board member of the Brazilian Academy of Trade Union Law, former UFMG union president, also on boards of the Italo-Brazilian Institute of Labour Law and Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy. Focuses on labour protection, industrial relations, ESG, social justice, democracy, human rights, Italian migration to South America.
	Mariapaola Aimo Professor University of Turin Italy ✉️mariapaola.aimo@unito.it	Mariapaola Aimo (PhD, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna) is a Full Professor of Labour Law at the University of Turin, where she coordinates the PhD program “Law, the Individual, and the Market”. Her research focuses on non-standard forms of employment, fundamental rights in the workplace, and algorithmic management. She authored numerous essays and commentaries, consistently adopting a European perspective. In 2017 she published a monograph on fixed-term employment in EU and national law. She co-authored a textbook on European Union Labour Law (Cedam, 2023) with D. Izzi, M. Roccella, and T. Treu.
	Marius Paul Olivier Professor University of Western Australia; Nelson Mandela University; North-West University Australia	Marius holds the BA (Law), LLB and LLD degrees and is an Adjunct-professor in the School of Law, University of Western Australia, an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), and an Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Law, Northwest University (South Africa). Marius is a member of several professional organisations. As an academic but also as policy specialist, Marius has been specialising in, advising on, and speaking and writing on social security, social protection, labour law and migration, and development planning with a focus also on regional dimensions and comparative contexts.
	Marouane Laabbas El Guennouni PhD student European Trade Union Institute Belgium ✉️mlaabbas@etui.org	Marouane joined the ETUI in November 2024. He holds a Law degree and a degree in Industrial Relations, both from Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), completing an academic course at Université Toulouse Capitole (France). In 2021, Marouane earned a master's degree in Environmental Law from the same university, where he wrote his thesis on the intersection of Environmental and Labour Inspectorates. In parallel, he joined the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg, where he contributed to several projects related to the daily activities of the Court’s members. By October 2021, he became a predoctoral researcher at the Public Law Department of Rovira i Virgili University, focusing his research on the links between environmental protection and workers' rights. Lately, he joined the editor board of The Catalan Journal of Environmental Law. In 2023, he was awarded a Fulbright-Schuman fellowship to further his research on collective bargaining, unionism, and the green transition. He carried out this research at Colorado State University in 2023 and at Rutgers University in 2024 (both in the United States). Currently, his work is focused on exploring the connections between health and safety at work, and the impacts of climate change and ecological transition.
	Masahito Toki Associate Professor The University of Tokyo Japan	Masahito Toki is an associate professor of labor and employment law at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo. Before joining the university in 2024, he was an associate professor at Okayama University’s Faculty of Law. He has published a monograph in Japan analyzing the addressee of labor law regulations through a comparative study of U.S., German, and Japanese law.
	Masayuki Numata Professor Hosei University Japan	I am interested in the impact of platform economy, especially crowdsourcing, on labor law and social security law. I am celebrating the success of the conference.
	Massimiliano De Falco Lecturer University of Udine Italy	Massimiliano De Falco (M.Sc. in Business Administration and Consulting, University of Udine, 2020; Ph.D. in Labour Law and Industrial Relations, University of Siena, 2024) is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Labour Law at the University of Udine.Alongside his PhD program, developed within the Association for International and Comparative Studies in Labour and Industrial Relations (ADAPT), Massimiliano has been Research Fellow at the Universities of Modena and Reggio Emilia and of Udine, by which he has been involved in two National Interest Research Projects. Moreover, he has been Visiting Fellow on “Labour market and collective bargaining” at the National Economic and Labour Council (CNEL), and Visiting Researcher at the Universities of Zaragoza (Spain), Toulouse (France), Belgrade (Serbia), and Cordoba (Spain). From 2023, Massimiliano is a member of the Italian Association of Labour Law and Social Security (AIDLaSS). His scientific papers are published in specialized Labour Law national and international Journals.
	Mathias Gustaaf L Wouters Legal Advisor Swiss Institute of Comparative Law Switzerland	Mathias Wouters obtained his PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2021, focusing on international labour standards and platform work. He is currently a legal advisor at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne, Switzerland, until mid-2025 and serves as an external consultant for ELL. (Employment Law Lawyers) in Belgium.
	Matilde Biagiotti PhD student University of Bologna Italy ✉️matilde.biagiotti2@unibo.it	PhD student in European Law at the University of Bologna, specialising in European Labour Law. Her research focuses on the labour inclusion of workers at risk of discrimination, exploring both traditional legal frameworks - such as anti-discrimination law - and emerging regulations addressing bias in artificial intelligence. She is particularly interested in identifying inclusive strategies through the coordinated action of multiple actors, such as employers, trade unions, and equality bodies.
	Matteo Borzaga Professor University of Trento Italy ✉️matteo.borzaga@unitn.it	I am full professor of Labour Law at the School of International Studies and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento
	Matthew Thomas Bodie Professor University of Minnesota Law School United States of America ✉️mbodie@umn.edu	Robins Kaplan Professor, University of Minnesota Law School. Reporter, Restatement of Employment Law (2015). Former field attorney, National Labor Relations Board. Co-author, 'Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance' (Cambridge U. Press, 2021).
	Matthijs Van Schadewijk Assistant Professor Radboud University The Netherlands ✉️matthijs.vanschadewijk@ru.nl	Matthijs conducts research in the field of employment law. He is particularly interested in sustainable employment, cross-border labour, the interface between employment law and corporate law and the interaction between Dutch and European law. In early 2023 Matthijs defended his PhD on group companies in employment law. Central in his research is the way group companies as economic entities are integrated in employment legislation, which traditionally regulates the contractual, singular relation between employer and employee.
	Maurizio Falsone Associate Professor Ca' Foscari University of Venice Italy ✉️maurizio.falsone@unive.it	Maurizio Falsone serves as Associate Professor at the Venice School of Management (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), where he teaches employment and labor law, social security law, and the intersection of new technologies with workers rights. His scholarly contributions include a book on Italian employment law within publicly owned companies. Maurizio Falsone's current research focuses on workplace regulations and the territorial dimensions of employment and labor law. Beyond his academic role, he is a lawyer.
	Md Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan Government Officer Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE, Ministry of Labour and Employment Bangladesh ✉️bhuiya0207@gmail.com	As a legal professional with over three decades of experience in the field of labor regulation—and currently serving as Joint Inspector General in the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Bangladesh—I bring with me a deep commitment to promoting workers’ rights, improving labor standards, and advancing inclusive policy reform.
	Md. Masum Billah Government Officer Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments Bangladesh ✉️masumbillahsiu@gmail.com	Md. Masum Billah is a dedicated legal professional specializing in labour law compliance, policy reform, and workplace safety. With over eight years of experience, he has played a key role in legislative amendments, international labour standards advocacy, and conciliation efforts. As a Law Officer at the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, he has contributed to enhancing workers' rights and decent work initiatives. His expertise spans legal analysis, stakeholder engagement, and training labour inspectors. Passionate about labour rights, he actively contributes to research, policy development, and enforcement strategies to strengthen Bangladesh’s labour governance framework.
	Meital Peleg Mizrachi Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University Connecticut USA ✉️meitalpeleg@gmail.com	Dr. Meital Peleg Mizrachi is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, specializing in sustainable fashion and public policy. Her research examines the intersection of environmental and social sustainability, with a focus on secondhand clothing markets, fashion consumption patterns, and regulatory frameworks. She coordinates Moving the Needle, a Yale-based initiative promoting research and education on sustainable fashion, and is an executive board member of the International Sustainable Fashion Consumption Research Network. With a background in economy, environment and public policy, Meital's work bridges academia and real-world impact, contributing to global discussions on sustainability, labor, and ethical consumption in fashion.
	Merve Kutlu Mutluer Assistance Professor Anadolu University Türkiye ✉️mkutlu91@hotmail.com	Merve Kutlu Mutluer is assistant professor of Labour and Social Securtiy Law at Anadolu University. She studied law at Marmara University in İstanbul, Turkey.(2009-2013) After she obtained a master’s degree in 2015 at SOAS University of London, UK. She was an intern at the ILO, Geneva. She later served as a researcher at Anadolu University (2017-2022) where received her doctoral degree. Her research interests labour law in general, working conditions, non-standard employment, digitalisation and collective labour law.
	Michael James Rawling Associate Professor University of Technology Sydney Australia ✉️michael.rawling@uts.edu.au	Michael Rawling is a leading Australian expert on the scope of labour law, enforcement of labour law and regulating for industrial democracy in Australia. His research has had a special focus on regulating supply chains and digital labour platforms including those in the Road Transport industry.
	Michael Silberman Postdoctoral researcher Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford United Kingdom	Michael ‘Six’ Silberman is a postdoctoral researcher in the iManage Project at Bonavero, contributing to research on regulating algorithmic management. Silberman has previously been a software engineer and trade union official, and was co-founder with Lilly Irani of Turkopticon, a client reputation system used by workers on Amazon’s ‘Mechanical Turk’ crowdsourcing platform. Silberman has contributed to research on environmental issues in information technology, the working conditions and rights of workers on digital labor platforms, and ecological economics. Silberman holds a PhD in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Irvine.
	Michał Jacek Matuszak Assistance Professor University of Warsaw Poland ✉️mmatuszak@wz.uw.edu.pl	Michał Matuszak is a PhD in law, an advocate and also assistant professor at Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. He is the author of numerous scientific articles in the field of labor law, sports law and a speaker at several international and national scientific conferences. He runs his own law firm in Warsaw, specializing in labor law. He is fluent in English.
	Michal Smejkal Assistance Professor Masaryk University Czech Republic ✉️michal.smejkal@law.muni.cz	Michal Smejkal works at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, as an assistant professor and head of the social law department within the Department of Financial Law and National Economy. He has been working for a long time on labour law, social security law and civil service law. He is also interested in labour law relations in the field of regional and higher education.
	Michele Faioli Associate Professor UCSC - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy ✉️michele.faioli@unicatt.it	Michele Faioli is an Associate Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (abilitato/tenured as full professor). He teaches courses in the areas of labor relations and comparative/EU labor law, including industrial relations, social security, tech law. Faioli's comparative research mainly looks at collective bargaining impact on labor relations, AI and robots operating at workplace level. As Visiting Fellow at the ILR School of Cornell University and at the Fordham Law School he carried out investigations on international labor rights, global trade and unions strategies. Michele has written widely on tech and labor law (see his book, "Mansioni e macchina intelligente", Giappichelli, 2018), undeclared work, social security, pension funds and other topics for a variety of law reviews and journals. After his appointment to the CNEL (Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro) in 2018, he has conducted investigations also on the possible social applications of blockchain to the EU labor market and social security systems. Prof. Faioli chairs the SERI - Scuola Europea di Relazioni Industriali. He directs the EUROFOUND Italian Observatory.
	Michele Mazzetti Lecturer University of Florence Italy ✉️michele.mazzetti@unifi.it	Dr. Michele Mazzetti is a dedicated professional specialising in Labour Law, International Trade, and Social Policy. He holds an LLM in European and Transnational Law (cum laude) and a PhD in International Labour Law from the University of Trento. His research focuses on labour rights in EU and US trade agreements. He contributes to EU-funded projects like CARE4CARE and SONYA, analysing labour law and social policy. As an adjunct professor, he teaches labour law and international studies. With experience at the Council of the EU and the ILO, he excels in comparative legal analysis and policy-oriented research.
	Michele Molè PhD student University of Groningen Netherlands	I’m currently researching the impact on employees’ rights of workplace surveillance through Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things. I completed my Master’s degree in Law at the University of Milan, after a short research stay at KU Leuven. I recently visited the European Trade Union Institute and the University of Warsaw. I lead an interdisciplinary project on the digitalisation of work (panoptiwork.eu), aimed at joint research with philosophers, sociologists, economists and computer scientists.
	Mila Petrović Assistance Professor Union University Law School Belgrade Serbia ✉️mila.petrovic@pravnifakultet.edu.rs	Mila Petrović, PhD, holds an LL.B., LL.M and PhD all from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.She is an assistant professor at the Union University Belgrade Law School, where she teaches Labour Law.Mila is also a member of the Association for Labour Law and Social Insurance of the Republic of Serbia, a member of the working group of the National Convent on the European Union for negotiation chapters on Freedom of Movement for Workers and Social Policy and Employment, and a Conciliator at the Republic Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes.
	MiłOsz BarłóG PhD student University of Silesia in Katowice Poland ✉️milosz.barlog@us.edu.pl	Miłosz Barłóg is a PhD candidate at the University of Silesia in Katowice, specializing in labor law. His research focuses on the impact of algorithmic management systems on job quality, power asymmetries, and employment relationships. He explores how algorithmic decision-making affects workers’ autonomy, working conditions, and legal protections. Holding a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Economics in Katowice, he combines legal and economic expertise to analyze the intersection of technology, employment relations, and workplace dynamics. Professionally, he works as a tax advisor, offering insights into the legal and fiscal implications of digital transformation.
	Minju Kang Visiting Scholar Seoul National University South Korea ✉️jo.mjkang@gmail.com	Minju Kang is a post-doctoral fellow at ChainGE Lab (ERC) and a visiting scholar at Seoul National University Law Research Institute (2024–2025). She holds a Ph.D. in human rights and social law from SNU and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. Her research focuses on business and human rights and stakeholder engagement in global value chains. At ChainGE Lab, she conducts comparative analysis of institutional and grassroots approaches to labor protections in the distant-water fishing industry. She has worked with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Humboldt University, and Tel Aviv University. From September 2025, she will be a fellow at Harvard Law School’s CLJE and LPE Program.
	Minna Seikkula Post-doc researcher Tampere University Finland ✉️minna.seikkula@tuni.fi	Minna Seikkula is sociologist specialised in migration labour nexus. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University in Finland. Her previous research has focused on, among other things, racialization, administrative border struggles and migrant labour regimes. Currently, she investigates seasonal labor migration linked to the wild berry industry in Finland.
	Miriam Kullmann Professor Utrecht University The Netherlands ✉️m.kullmann@uu.nl	Professor Miriam Kullmann is a distinguished scholar specialising in labour law and social security law at the Utrecht University School of Law. She joined Utrecht University in February 2024, bringing extensive academic experience from her previous roles at leading institutions in the Netherlands, including Radboud University Nijmegen, Maastricht University, VU Amsterdam, and Leiden University. Her international expertise is further highlighted by her appointments at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and Lund University, as well as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.Professor Kullmann’s research spans a diverse range of topics, examining the transformative effects of technological advancements on employment and its governance. Her work also focuses on the foundations and functions of (EU) labour law, the enforcement and monitoring of labour rights in both domestic and cross-border contexts, and the regulation of flexible work arrangements such as temporary agency and fixed-term work.Beyond academia, Professor Kullmann contributes to the field as an independent member of the European Committee of Social Rights, a Council of Europe institution based in Strasbourg. She also serves as a deputy justice at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, underscoring her commitment to both scholarly and practical advancements in labour law and social security.
	Miyoung Gu Research Fellow Korean Women's Development Institute S. Korea ✉️workright@kwdimail.re.kr	My specialty is labor law, and I have been working as a research fellow at KWDI, a national think tank on gender equality policy, for 13 years.My research interests include employment discrimination based on gender, employment status, age, etc., recognition of the social value of care work, and gender-mainstreaming of labor laws.
	Mohammad Habibur Rahman Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) A.S & Associates Bangladesh ✉️m.habib@as-associates.net	Mohammad Habibur Rahman is a Senior Associate at A.S & Associates, a reputed law firm based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, specializing in labour law and complex commercial litigation. As an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, he has successfully represented both domestic and international clients in labour disputes, arbitration, and court proceedings. Mr. Rahman’s expertise encompasses handling labour disputes in court on behalf of corporate entities and workers, as well as providing advisory services on labour compliance matters. Dedicated to legal excellence, he also mentors junior lawyers and actively contributes to labour law scholarship and reform initiatives.
	Molla Mohammad Raquibul Hasan Programme Assistant ILO-Dhaka Bangladesh	I am a development professional with eighteen years of experience with international organizations in Bangladesh. Currently, I am a Programme Assistant with the Labour Law and International Labour Standards (LL&ILS) component of the ILO-Dhaka's Labour Administration and Working Conditions Programme. In this role, I have gained operational know-how of ILO’s processes and have been involved in capacity-building initiatives for tripartite partners, including the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE), employers' federations, and workers' organizations. I regularly liaise with government ministries, trade unions, and owners' associations.
	Monika Schlachter-Voll Professor IAAEU Trier university Germany	Monika Schlachter is a professor at Trier university, Germany. Her field of specialsation includes labour law and industrial relations, international labour law, comparative law and human rights. Next to her university position, she served as member and vice president of the European Committe of Social Rights (the treaty body of the Counci of Europe's European Socal Charter) between 2006 and 2018
	Muhammad Habibur Rahman Assistant Secretary-General (Legal Affairs) at the Bangladesh Employers' Federation (BEF) Bangladesh Employers' Federation (BEF) Bangladesh ✉️habibur.llb@gmail.com	Muhammad Habibur Rahman is the Assistant Secretary-General (Legal Affairs) at the Bangladesh Employers' Federation (BEF) and a member of the Labour Court in Bangladesh. With 14 years of experience in labour and employment law, he provides legal and policy expertise on industrial relations, dispute resolution, and labour standards. He plays a key role in representing employers in tripartite dialogues and shaping national labour policies. His work bridges legal practice and institutional advocacy, making him a vital contributor to the development of fair and effective labour regulation in Bangladesh.
	Nadia Wanning Hsu Professor National Taiwan University Taiwan ✉️nadiahsu@ntu.edu.tw	Nadia Wan Ning Hsu is a Professor of Law at National Taiwan University. Her research focuses on employment law and workers' compensation. She has published widely on employer liability, workplace sexual harassment protection, and non-compete clauses.With experience as a Unfair Labor Practices Committee and involvement in legislative consultations, Professor Hsu bridges legal theory and practice to promote labor law reform in Taiwan.
	Nalanda Sharadjaya AI Policy Researcher The Alan Turing Institute United Kingdom ✉️nsharadjaya@turing.ac.uk	Nala Sharadjaya is an AI policy researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she has worked on projects related to algorithmic bias in workplace decision systems, the cybersecurity of AI systems, and the international AI governance landscape. In her research, she is interested in considering digital technologies within their social, political, and economic contexts. Nala holds an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, with certificates in Computer Science and French, and an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, awarded with distinction. Her MSc research was focused on the interpretation of complex computational systems.
	Nastazja Potocka-Sionek Postdoctoral researcher University of Luxembourg Luxembourg ✉️nastazja.potocka@uni.lu	Nastazja Potocka-Sionek is a Postdoctoral Researcher in European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Luxembourg. She holds her PhD degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, LL.M. degree from the University of Münster, Germany, and Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Łódź, Poland. She has worked as an Adjunct Professor at IE Law School in Madrid and a postdoctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She has also carried out a research stay at Ewha Womans University and Sogang University in Seoul, and an internship at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.
	Natalie Margit Sedacca Assistance Professor Durham University United Kingdom ✉️natalie.m.sedacca@durham.ac.uk	Natalie is Assistant Professor in Employment Law at Durham Law School, having previously taught at University College London, Exeter and Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on human rights and labour law, particularly as regards marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Natalie is currently writing a monograph on ‘Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law.’ She has published in several peer reviewed journals and has been a co-investigator on a research project on migrant care and agricultural workers’ rights. Natalie is also a trustee for the domestic worker NGO Kalayaan.
	Nikita Lyutov Professor Maqsut Narikbayev University (MNU) Kazakhstan ✉️nlioutov@mail.ru	Nikita L. Lyutov, Dr. Jur., Prof.Before 2022 – professor, head of labour and social security law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University, MSAL Russia). Moved from Russia to Kazakhstan in 2022 because of the political reasons. Since September 2022 – Associate Professor at Maqsut Narikbayev University (MNU) (Kazakhstan).Member of the LLRN Steering Committee. Has been visiting professor in a number of universities worldwide, author of more than 220 academic publications. Hirsch index at Google Scholar is 39 with over 6000 citations. Frequent collaborator to the ILO in research of the post-Soviet states’ compliance to the international labour standards.
	Niklas Gabriel Bruun Professor Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Finland ✉️niklas.bruun@hanken.fi	Niklas Bruun LL.D., Finland, is professor emeritus at the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.He is an expert in labour law including equality and intellectual property law and has published numerous books and articles. He has been a member of the Freedom of Association Committee, ILO 1996-1998, 2005-2007, 2012 - 2014 and of the CEDAW Committee (UN) during 2009-2016.Bruun is a frequently used expert by EU Institutions and ILO. Bruun has been a member of the Scientific Board of the ELLN-network (EU) until 2020 and he is a member and coordinator of the TTUR-group (ETUI, Brussels).Bruun is chair of the board of Helsinki University.
	Niklas Selberg Associate Professor Faculty of Law, Lund University Sweden ✉️niklas.selberg@jur.lu.se	Associate professor of private law. Research interests include employment law, labour law, trade secrets, platform work, health and safety law, anti-discrimination law, corporate law.
	Nuna Zekic Associate Professor University of Amsterdam Netherlands ✉️n.zekic@uva.nl	Nuna Zekić is Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She is currently the research director of Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies - Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (AIAS-HSI) at the Amsterdam Law School. Her expertise lies in the area of dismissal law, flexible employment, platform work, working time, equal treatment, and collective bargaining. She has published widely on these issues both in national and international journals.
	Nuria Pumar Associate Professor University of Barcelona Spain ✉️npumar@ub.edu	Nuria Pumar is associated professor of Labour Law and Social Security of the University of Barcelona. Since January 2019 coordinates the Interuniversity Master on Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies and she chairs the Legal Clinic of Women at the Law Faculty. She has published in international and prestigious publications on the following topics, among others: the protection of single-parent families, positive actions in favour of women in employment, gender violence at work or the impact of European social policies on women.Currently she takes part in the interdisciplinary and international research group Gredtiss (2023-2026, www.upf.edu/gredtiss).
	Olena Rym Professor Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ukraine ✉️olena.rym@lnu.edu.ua	Olena Rym is a professor at the Social Law Department of Lviv National University with over 15 years of experience in labour law research. Her expertise includes labour rights within the human rights system, EU labour law, and the harmonisation of Ukrainian legislation with European standards. She has contributed to working groups on labour reform, serves on the Supreme Court’s Scientific Advisory Council, and advises the Minister of Social Policy. As a national consultant, she works on Council of Europe projects promoting social rights and aligning domestic law with EU acquis and international labour standards.
	Pankaj Kumar Independent Researcher Independent Researcher India ✉️pankajvidyan@gmail.com	Pankaj Kumar is a researcher and author on 'contract labour issues'. He has done extensive research in India and China. Kumar clams that many of the provisions of the New labour codes formulated by the Government of India were originally conceptualized by him in his book "Issues in law and public policy on contract labour in India: comparative insights from China" published by Springer (2018).
	Pankhuri Agarwal Postdoctoral Researcher University od Bath United Kingdom ✉️pa591@bath.ac.uk	Pankhuri Agarwal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath's School of Management. Her research lies at the intersection of Sociology and Management Studies on topics such as exploitation and work in then informal economy and global value chains, migration and critical slavery studies in India and the UK. She can be contacted at pa591@bath.ac.uk
	Panthip Pruksacholavit Associate Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️panthip.p@chula.ac.th	Panthip Pruksacholavit joined Chulalongkorn University in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests focus on Labor and Employment Law. Panthip serves as a Series Editor for Sweet and Maxwell’s Thai Law Book Series. She also contributed on International Labor and Employment Laws, published by the American Bar Association and authored Thai labor law textbooks, including Workmen Compensation Law in Thailand and Thai Labor Protection Law. Panthip is a member of the LLRN’s Steering Committee & leads the LLRN7 Organizing Committee. She is also the Vice President of the Asian Society of Labour Law, and a committee member of the Thai Society of Labor Law.
	Papawadee Tanodomdej Assistance Professor Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️papawadee@law.chula.ac.th	Dr. Papawadee Tanodomdej is assistant professor of public international law and conflict of laws at the faculty of law, Chulalongkorn University, since 2019. She has served as a member of the board of experts for the Asia Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law during 2020 - 2023. Before joining Chulalongkorn University, she was a senior research associate at the International Institute for Trade and Development and conducted various research projects regarding international trade law such as non-tariff trade barriers, aid-for-trade and international e-commerce. She holds an LL.D. with a specialism on cyber operations and the use of force from Kyushu University in Japan. In 2012, she attended the summer course of The Hague Academy of International Law on Public International Law and was selected to attend the Directed Studies which prepared participants to sit for Diploma Exam. With the Eiffel Scholarship from the French government, she received her master degree in European Union Law (Droit de l’Union européenne) from Université Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille III in France in 2011. She obtained her LL.B. from the faculty of law of Thammasat University in 2009 with second class honor. Her publications include “The Tallinn Manuals and the Making of the International Law on Cyber Operations” published with Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, “The boundary between digital goods and E-services in cross-border E-commerce and implication for non-discrimination under the WTO system” published with International Journal of Law and Information Technology.
	Patanaporn Kowpatanakit Associate Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️patanaporn.k@chula.ac.th	https://www.law.chula.ac.th/en/profile/5515/
	Paulina Matyjas Lysakowska Assistance Professor Jan Kochanowski University Poland ✉️matyjas.lysakowska@gmail.com	PhD, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (Poland), legal advisor
	Pauline Jerrentrup PhD student London School of Economics United Kingdom	Pauline Jerrentrup is a PhD candidate in the ERHR group at the London School of Economics. Her research is motivated by finding sustainable solutions to labour rights abuses in global supply chains. Pauline’s PhD focusses on enforceable union-brand agreements to address gender-based violence in garment factories. She completed a visiting PhD Fellowship at ILR Cornell University, consults for international organisations, and brings prior work expertise in business strategy consulting.
	Pawat Satayanurug Assistance Professor Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️pawat.s@chula.ac.th	Pawat Satayanurug, LL.B. (Chulalongkorn), LL.M. (Cambridge), LL.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. (University of Zurich), is Vice Dean for Research and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University. He teaches international law, human rights law, international criminal law, and air law. His research focuses on business and human rights, sustainability, and refugee protection. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the Asian Society of International Law and co-led the Teaching and Researching International Law in Asia (TRILA) workshop (Thailand) with the Centre for International Law, NUS. His recent publication appears in the International Journal of Refugee Law.
	Penelope Hardy JSPS International Research Fellow University of Tokyo Japan ✉️pehardy@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp	Penelope Hardy (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School for Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo (as a JSPS International Research Fellow) under the supervision of Professor E. Kasagi. Her research focuses on social security and non-standard workers and is entitled "Modelling social protection for non-standard workers: a comparative and systematic legal analysis". She is also an active participant in several research networks, including the "Groupe de recherche sur l'Union européenne (GrUE)" and the "Réseau droit social France-Japon".
	Peter Sziladi Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Dr. Sziládi Law Firm Hungary	As an associate in Budapest, I work on labour law, information technology, privacy and data related matters for our national and international clients from various sectors including electronics, automotive and IT.Prior to joining our firm in 2019, I worked in an international law firm mainly advising on data protection matters and in another automotive company on labour law issues. I graduated from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary in July 2019. I was also a student at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany where I mainly worked on a data protection research projects. Besides my legal education I also study business informatics to align my IT related advice to the best business needs of our clients.I also participated at the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, in which I was awarded the 'Best Speaker' prize in the regional rounds and reached the octo-finals with my teammates at Oxford University. Ever since I am honoured to be a judge at the competition from year to year.I mainly publish and present in conferences related to employment law (e.g., Labor Law Research Network) and I am also a member of the prestigious Hungarian Employment Lawyer's Association.I speak and work in English, German and Italian in addition to my native Hungarian.
	Petra Herzfeld Olsson Professor Faculty of Law, Srockholm University Sweden ✉️petra.herzfeld-olsson@juridicum.su.se	Petra Herzfeld Olsson, professor of labour law and vice dean for research at Stockholm University, Sweden. Former government member of the Freedom of Association Committee, ILO.
	Phornpawee Thongsomboon Government Officer Ministry of Labour, Department of Labour Protection and Welfare Thailand ✉️p.thongsomboon@hotmail.com	Phornpawee Thongsomboon is a Legal Officer at the Legal Affairs Division, Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, Ministry of Labour, Thailand. Awarded a Royal Thai Government scholarship for a master’s degree in law, she specializes in labour protection and welfare, focusing on drafting and reforming legislation aligned with ILO standards and promoting inclusive, stakeholder-driven policy development. She recently led a national seminar on severance pay reform, demonstrating her commitment to evidence-based, participatory lawmaking. Passionate about strengthening labour protections through comparative research and international collaboration, she looks forward to exchanging insights at LLRN7 and contributing to global labour law and policy discussions.
	Piera Loi Professor UNIversity of Cagliari Italy ✉️loip@unica.it	Piera Loi is a full professor of Labour Law in the Department of Law at the University of Cagliari. She completed her PhD with distinction at the European University Institute in Florence, where her thesis examined the concept of security in labour law from a comparative and European perspective. She has also undertaken research stays at the London School of Economics (Law Department) and the Observatoire Social Européen in Brussels.At the University of Cagliari, Professor Loi teaches Labour Law, European Union Labour Law, and International Labour Relations, and she also lectures in the Master’s programme in Labour Law and Industrial Relations. In addition, she has taught at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, the Summer School on European and International Labour Law at the University of Riga and at the University of Vienna.
	Piotr Grzebyk Associate Professor University of Warsaw Poland ✉️p.grzebyk@wpia.uw.edu.pl	Associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. Director of the University of Warsaw School of Law and Economy of China.
	Piyabutr Bunaramrueang Associate Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️piyabutr.b@chula.ac.th	https://www.law.chula.ac.th/en/profile/5527/
	Poomsiri Dumrongvute Lecturer Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️poomsiri@law.chula.ac.th	Poomsiri Dumrongvute is a lecturer and Vice Dean for International Affairs and Legal Innovation at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University. He specializes in financial regulation, corporate law, IP, and law and technology. He also serves as Legal Director of Ignite Innovation Lab, supporting technology commercialization through legal tools such as IP, contracts, and data protection. Poomsiri earned his J.S.D. from UC Berkeley in 2019. He recently founded the “Law Clinic for Tech and Spin-off,” a platform for law students to address legal challenges in tech commercialization and develop skills to serve Thailand’s growing startup ecosystem.
	Qi Zhong Associate Professor The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training Japan	Vice Senior Researcher, Labour Laws and Industrial Relations
	Rachel Elizabeth Horton Associate Professor University of Reading UK ✉️r.e.horton@reading.ac.uk	Dr Rachel Horton is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Reading, UK and the UK gender equality expert on the European Commission’s Equality Law Network. Her research focusses on work-life reconciliation law and policy, and on equality and anti-discrimination law, both in the workplace and beyond, with a particular interest in gender, disability and age.
	Raluca Dimitriu Professor Faculty of Law, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest Romania ✉️raluca.dimitriu@drept.ase.ro	Raluca Dimitriu is a Labour Law Professor and a PhD coordinator. She has consistently served as a national expert in research and consultancy activities for projects related to European labour law, funded by the European Commission, the World Bank, and the International Labour Organization.Raluca is a member of the European Centre of Expertise in the Field of Labour Law, Employment, and Labour Policies and also serves as a Eurofound expert. In her role as a trainer for Magistrates specializing in Labour Law at the National Institute for Magistracy, she maintains constant contact with the practical field of industrial relations.
	Ratthai Kamolwarin Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Chandler Mori Hamada Limited Thailand ✉️ratthai.k@morihamada.com	Ratthai Kamolwarin is a Counsel at Chandler Mori Hamada. He specializes in litigation and has significant experience representing clients on labour and employment law, on corporate and commercial litigation, and on intellectual property litigation and related matters. He has represented clients on civil and criminal cases in court proceedings. He acts for both Thai and international clients and has broad experience on cross-border matters.
	Richard Alan Bales Professor Ohio Northern University USA ✉️r-bales@onu.edu	Rick Bales is a faculty member at Ohio Northern University Law School. He teaches a wide variety of labor/employment and ADR courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and authored or co-authored 10 books on a variety of topics related to labor/employment/ADR, including most recently THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT’S CENTENARY: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM (Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Jill Gross, December 2024).
	Rifat Zabeen Khan Senior Programme Officer - Labour Law & International Labour Standards International Labour Organization (ILO) Bangladesh	Rifat Zabeen Khan is a Senior Programme Officer in Labour Law and International Labour Standards at the International Labour Organization. An alumnus of the University of Dhaka with an advanced degree in International Law, Rifat specializes in project management, M&E and communication. With previous experience as an Analyst at Globesight and a Project Support Officer at UNODC, Rifat brings a strong background in law, global development and strategic partnerships.
	Rika Abe Volunteer Kyushu International University Japan	Rika Abe is an Associate Professor of Labor Law, Kyushu International University, Japan. She is a member of the Japan Labor Law Association since 2013 and a member of the Japan Association of Social Security Law since 2017. Her research interests concern the law of safety and health at work in Japan and France, industrial accidents, as well as the health of women at work. Her most recent article was published in a quarterly journal of Labor Law and deal with the “Involvement of worker toward safety and health at work and the social dialogue”.
	Robert Michael Fishman Professor Universidad Carlos III Spain	Robert M. Fishman is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Carlos III University and author among other works of Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion (Oxford University Press, 2019).
	RüDiger Krause Professor Georg-August-University Göttingen Germany	Since 2006 full Professor for Private Law and Labor Law and Director of the Institute for Labor Law at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Author of several books and articles on German and European Labor Law. Co-Editor of the German Labor Law Journal "Soziales Recht". Speaker of the German Association for Labor Law. Representative of Labor Law Professors at the Board of the German Association of Labor Courts. Vice-President of the State Judicial Examination Office of Lower-Saxony (Germany).
	Ryo Hosokawa Professor Aoyama Gakuin University Japan ✉️rio.hosokawadroitdutravail@als.aoyama.ac.jp	My name is Ryo Hosokawa. I am a professor and dean of the Faculty of Law at Aoyama Gakuin University. My specialty is labor law, and in particular, I have studied French labor law and labor relationship in France. Recently, I have been researching the regulation of working hours to protect workers' health, and in particular the realization of the "right to disconnect."
	Ryuichi Yamakawa Professor Meiji University Japan	Professor of Law, Meiji University, Ph.D. (University of Tokyo), LL.M. (University of Washington)
	Saar Van Dijk PhD student Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands ✉️s.van.dijk3@vu.nl	Saar van Dijk is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit. Her research focusses on the relationship between labour law and the green transition.
	Sara Huybrechts PhD student KU Leuven Belgium ✉️sara.huybrechts@kuleuven.be	Sara Huybrechts is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Labour Law of KU Leuven under supervision of prof. Frank Hendrickx. Her research is about telework approached as autonomous work, focusing on time and place independency and its effects on labour law.
	Sarun Pimngam Lecturer Chulalongkorn University Thailand	Lecturer in Law at Chulalongkorn University
	Saumya Saumya PhD student National Law University, Delhi India ✉️saumya805@gmail.com	Ms. Saumya is a doctoral candidate at the National Law University, Delhi, and a former Fulbright doctoral fellow at Rutgers University, USA. Her areas of interest include issues of business and human rights, particularly social and labour aspects, global supply chains, gender and other social dynamics, and related socio-legal research. Her doctoral work revolves around issues of discrimination and precarity experienced by women workers in the export-oriented garment industry in India.
	Sawanee Gulthawatvichai Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Chandler Mori Hamada Limited Thailand ✉️sawanee.g@morihamada.com	Sawanee Gulthawatvichai is a Senior Associate at Chandler Mori Hamada and has been with the firm since 2012. She specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and investment law, labour law, Oil & Gas law and has particular expertise regarding corporate structuring / restructuring, business transfer transactions and company incorporations. She has represented various foreign clients and companies which has involved advising on corporate structures, joint venture partnership relationships, business transfer arrangements, HR matters, Oil & Gas projects and due diligence projects.
	Sean Thomas Cooney Professor The University of Melbourne Australia ✉️s.cooney@unimelb.edu.au	Sean Cooney's research interests concern international and comparative labour and employment law, with a focus on Asia. He has worked on new approaches to improving international working standards, including on Australian Research Council-funded collaborative projects on Chinese labour law reform; enforcement in Australia; and assessing the effect of legal change in several Asia-Pacific countries. He has published articles in major refereed law journals in the United States, China and Australia. Between 2014 and 2016, Sean served as a Legal Specialist in the Labour Law and Reform Unit at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, where he provided advice to governments in countries such as China, India, Myanmar and Pakistan. He continues to consult for the ILO. Sean speaks Mandarin Chinese, French and German. He studied at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University and also spent several years as a lawyer practising mainly in the areas of employment and administrative law.
	Sergio Gamonal Professor Adolfo Ibáñez University Chile ✉️sergio.gamonal@uai.cl	Sergio Gamonal C., professor of labour law and director of the master's programme in labour law, Faculty of Law, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile. Author of the book Principled Labour Law (OUP, 2019, co-authored with César Rosado).
	Shae Mccrystal Professor The University of Sydney Australia ✉️shae.mccrystal@sydney.edu.au	Shae McCrystal is Professor of Labour Law in the University of Sydney Law School. Shae’s research focuses primarily on the regulation of collective bargaining and strike action for employees and the self-employed and she has published extensively in these areas, including Strike Ballots, Democracy and Law (Oxford University Press, 2020 with Breen Creighton, Catrina Denvir, Richard Johnstone and Alice Orchiston) and The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022, edited with Sanjukta Paul and Ewan McGaughey). She is also a co-author of Creighton and Stewart’s Labour Law, 7th edition (Federation Press, 2025 with Andrew Stewart, Anthony Forsyth, Mark Irving and Richard Johnstone).
	Shahar Shoham Postdoc Humboldt University of Berlin Germany ✉️dawnshoham@gmail.com	Shahar Shoham is a doctor in Global and Area Studies, received from the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. She holds a B.A in Philosophy and East Asia Studies, Tel Aviv University, and an M.A in Global Studies, Humboldt University. Shoham is an anthropologist of migration and labor. Her research focuses on Thai farmworkers in Israel from the perspective of sending communities and on Israel’s externalization policies towards refugees. She is an engaged anthropologist active in academia and beyond it, promoting migrants' and refugees' rights for the past two decades.
	Shahrina Razzaque Juhi Assistance Professor Bangladesh University of Professionals Bangladesh ✉️shahrinajuhi@gmail.com	Barrister Shahrina Razzaque Juhi is a Barrister-at-Law, Senior HR Specialist, Employee Relations Expert, and Assistant Professor based in Bangladesh. With over eight years of experience spanning corporate HR leadership, legal advocacy, and academia, she specializes in labour law compliance, dispute resolution, and workplace justice. She currently works as an expert of employee relations at Red Sea Gateway Terminal Bangladesh and is an Assistant Professor of Business Law & Practice at a leading public university named Bangladesh University of Professionals. Shahrina has published academic research on workplace justice and is committed to advancing labour rights and ethical corporate governance in Bangladesh.
	Shan-Pei Su PhD student School of Law National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan ✉️susansu0725.lw13@nycu.edu.tw	*Ph.D. student, School of Law, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.*Research Fellow, National Science and Technology Council Project: Just Transition Strategies in Taiwan.My recent research focuses on the legal development of green collective agreements within social dialogue mechanisms and the role of unions in just transition. Through comparative legal and qualitative research, I aim to provide unions with clear advocacy directions for promoting just transition.
	Sharmila Parmanand Assistance Professor London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom ✉️s.parmanand1@lse.ac.uk	Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation, London School of Economics and Political Science.
	Shelley Marshall Professor RMIT University Australia ✉️shelley.marshall@rmit.edu.au	Professor Shelley Marshall is the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the RMIT University School of Law in Melbourne, Australia. Shelley has degrees in political science, law, development studies and regulatory and justice studies from the University of Melbourne, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Australian National University respectively. Shelley left legal practice in 2001 to join the team setting up Ethical Clothing Australia. Her research has informed labour law reform in several countries and the policies of the International Labour Organisation. For example, over 2018-19 she made frequent trips to Thailand to advise the Thai Ministry of Labour on how to enforce labour laws for homeworkers. In 2023, she co-drafted a draft text for an ILO Convention on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains with Ingrid Landau. Her book, Living Wage published by Oxford University Press in 2019, proposed a new architecture for international labour law. An Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship, 2020-2023, allowed Shelley to examine the deployment of digital technologies to address modern slavery.
	Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee Postdoctoral Research Fellow ERRC ChaingeLab: Labor Law for a Global Value Chain Economy India ✉️shikha.bhattacharjee@gmail.com	My work focuses on migration, supply chains, climate justice, and gender, caste and race in the global economy. I address systemic violence, with a focus on women, labor migrants, environmental sustainability and persons with disabilities.
	Shinichi Ago Professor Kyushu University Japan	AGO Shin-ichi is Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University (former Law Dean). During the last 10 years, he was Professor of Law at Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, and was also Director of its Kyoto Museum for World Peace. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and obtained his Doctorat ès sci-ences politiques from Geneva University (IUHEI). He worked with the ILO in the 1980s before returning to the academia. He was Judge at the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal for 9 years. He is member of the ILO’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendation since 2015.
	Shiro Ikawa Professor Chuo University Japan	Shiro IKAWA is Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chuo University (Tokyo) since 2025, having previously served as Associate Professor there since 2023. Prior to this, he was at Yamaguchi University from 2017 to 2023 and at the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training from 2015 to 2017. His research focuses on international and transnational labour regulation.
	Shun Ishiguro Lecturer The University of Tokyo Japan ✉️s.ishiguro@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp	Shun ISHIGURO is a Lecturer at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo. After receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 2020 from the University of Tokyo, he became a Research Associate later that year, and was appointed Lecturer at the same university in 2024. His field of study is labor and employment law, with a particular focus on the intersection of collective labor law and competition law, especially in Europe, the United States, and Japan.
	Simone D'Ascola Assistance Professor university of Pisa Italy ✉️simone.dascola@gmail.com	Simone D’Ascola is Assistant Professor in Labour Law at the University of Pisa.In 2019 he obtained a PhD in Labour Law at the University of Verona (Doctor Europaeus). In 2019/2020 he was a research fellow in Pisa. Over the years he studied also at the Universities of Seville, London LSE, Paris ENS, Paris-Est Créteil, Castilla-La Mancha. He is author of numerous scientific publications; he regularly participates as a speaker at conferences and seminars in the field of Labor Law, as well as a teacher in training courses. His main interests include digital transformation challenges for the world of work.
	Slawomir Adamczyk Professor NSZZ Solidarność Poland ✉️sadamc@solidarnosc.org.pl	Slawomir Adamczyk, born in Gdansk, Poland is a specialist in the behavioural geography of labour relations and in the social dimension of European integration. On a daily basis, he is the head of the Branch & Consultation Office of the National Commission of the NSZZ "Solidarność" – the largest Polish trade union center. By interest, he is a researcher and practitioner of transnational industrial relations, including coordination of trade union' activities. Author of a number of publications on the future of the world of work in the context of the changing role of worker representation.
	Sonam Tshering Associate Professor Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (JSW Law) Bhutan ✉️sonam.tshering@jswlaw.bt	Sonam Tshering is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean with fifteen years of legal practice and teaching.. His background includes roles as public prosecutor, investigator, and legal advisor, including employment matters. As a practitioner, he advises employers and employees on labour and employment contracts while conducting training for labour inspectors and government officers. As a certified Jabmi (Legal Counsel) and mediator, he resolves complex issues, including employment disputes. Tshering has drafted over fifteen national policies and legislative bills and social advocate for labour rights. His expertise spans contracts, negotiations, dispute resolution, and policy development, making him an authority on contracts, including labour contracts.
	Stefania Marassi Lecturer The Hague University of Applied Sciences / Leiden University The Netherlands ✉️s.marassi@hhs.nl	Stefania Marassi is a Senior Lecturer in European Labor Law and researcher with the Smart Sensor Systems research group at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). She is also an external PhD student at Leiden University (the Netherlands), writing a dissertation on the use of wearable technology in the workplace and the legal implications from an occupational health and safety and data protection perspective. Stefania Marassi is a member of the editorial board of the International Labor Rights Case Law Journal and worked as an independent expert for European projects on the impact of technological developments on the work floor and transnational collective labour relations.
	Stefano Bellomo Professor Sapienza Università di Roma Italy ✉️stefano.bellomo@uniroma1.it	Stefano Bellomo is Full Professor of Labour Law in the Department of Scienze Giuridiche, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza (Law Faculty) of the Università di Roma Sapienza (Italia).He is the author of some 100 publications, monographs, academic and scholarly studies and articles.
	Sukhwan Choi Associate Professor School of Law, Seoul National University Korea, Republic of ✉️shchoi@snu.ac.kr	Sukhwan CHOI, professor of labour law and employment law at School of Law, Seoul National University.
	Supheemon Vajakij Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Chandler Mori Hamada Limited Thailand ✉️supheemon.v@morihamada.com	Supheemon Vajakij is an Associate at Chandler Mori Hamada Limited’s dispute resolution department. She provides a wide range of legal services related both civil and criminal matters. She has substantive experience in representing both international and Thai clients with the litigation matters related to corporate and commercial laws, family laws and labor and employment laws. Her expertise includes workplace investigation and insolvency laws.Supheemon extended her business knowledge by receiving her master degree in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management with merit.
	Supriya Routh Associate Professor The University of British Columbia Canada ✉️routh@allard.ubc.ca	Supriya Routh is a Canada Research Chair in Labour Law & Social Justice at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, the University of British Columbia, Canada.
	Takashi Araki Professor The University of Tokyo Japan ✉️araki@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp	Professor, the University of Tokyo; Chairman of the Central Labor Relations Commission in Japan
	Tamar Barkay Senior Lecturer Tel Hai College Israel ✉️tamarbar@telhai.ac.il	Tamar Barkay is a senior lecturer and the head of the Sociology and Anthropology program in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at Tel-Hai College. She is also affiliated with ChainGE Lab (ERC) at Tel Aviv University. Tamar holds a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on economic sociology, particularly the social and political implications of CSR and labor governance in supply chains. In this context, she has explored the emergence of new forms of non-state governance, examining how the popularization of ‘corporate responsibility’ intersects with the decline of organized labor.
	Tamas Gyulavari Professor Pazmany Peter Catholic University Hungary ✉️gyulavari.tamas@jak.ppke.hu	Tamás Gyulavári is a Professor of Labour Law and Chair of Labour Law Department at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. After his graduation in Budapest (1992), he continued his studies at Warwick, Groningen, Aix-Marseille and Lund Universities. He is editor of the “Hungarian Labour Law E-Journal". He has been working in a dozen of EU projects in association with Human European Consultancy, Leeds University, Université Lyon 2. He worked as an expert in Albania (2012-2016) and Kazakhstan (2022-2023). He is the member of the European Labour Law Network and the European Disability Expertise.
	Tasnuva Anika Lecturer American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) Bangladesh ✉️tasnuva@aiub.edu	Tasnuva Anika is a Lecturer in Law at the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), holding an LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Dhaka. Her research interests include labour law, gender and work, and social justice. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to edited volumes, and presented at international conferences. Tasnuva is currently engaged in reporting for the ILO CEACR and was recently selected for the ILO LEAP 2025 Programme.
	Tena Konjević PhD student Faculty of Law Osijek, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia; Central European Academy, Budapest, Hungary Croatia ✉️tkonjevic@pravos.hr	Tena Konjević, LLM is a Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Labour and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia, and a Researcher at the Central European Academy in Budapest, Hungary. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Miskolc, specializing in the protection of posted workers’ rights in subcontracting chains, with a broader focus on labour law, social rights, and business and human rights. She has published extensively in these fields, serves on the editorial boards of academic journals, and acts as the Croatian National Expert for the European Trade Union Institute’s 2025 project, Right to Strike.
	Teresa Coelho Moreira Associate Professor School of Law - University of Minho Portugal	Teresa Coelho Moreira is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the School of Law, University of Minho, Portugal. She is the principal investigator of the Human Rights Research Group of JusGov Research Centre, as well as vice-director of the Master's Degree in Law and Informatics.She was the scientific coordinator of the Green Paper on the Future of Work 2021.She has several publications at national and international level. She is a member of the Editorial Board as well as a member of the Scientific Committee of journals in Portugal, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Brazil and Argentina.
	Tess Hardy Associate Professor University of Mlebourne Australia ✉️tess.hardy@unimelb.edu.au	Associate Professor Tess Hardy is Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at Melbourne Law School. Her research mainly focuses on labour regulation and its enforcement, and the way in which this intersects with business regulation more broadly. Prior to joining academia, Tess was a private practitioner based in Melbourne, Tokyo and Hong Kong, advising principally in the area of work law. Tess is an editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law and has previously been a consultant to the International Labour Organisation.
	Thidaporn Sirithaporn Assistance Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand	Thidaporn Sirithaporn earned her LLB (First Class Honors) from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, followed by LLMs from the University of Cambridge, UK and the University of Virginia, USA. As a full-time faculty member at Chulalongkorn University, she currently serves as Director of the LLM (Finance and Tax Law) program. She has collaborated with fellow academics on research projects for Thai government agencies, including the Ministry of Commerce and the Board of Investment of Thailand, addressing regulatory challenges in trade and investment. Her teaching spans domestic and international tax law, while her research focuses on comparative taxation, regulatory frameworks, and tax policy, employing interdisciplinary approaches combining legal, economic, and political perspectives.
	Thitinant Tengaumnuay Lecturer Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️thitinant.t@chula.ac.th	Thitinant received her LLB (first-class honour) from faculty of law, Chulalongkorn University and continued her studies for master’s degrees, receiving MJur from University of Oxford and LLM in Environmental Law from New York University. Thitinant graduated from the PhD programme at University of Bristol, UK. Her area of interest includes environmental law, climate change, criminal law, and medical law.
	Tianyu Wang Professor Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) China	Dr. Wang Tianyu is a professor at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he serves as the Deputy Director of the Social Law Division (presiding over the work). As one of China's leading scholars in labor and social security law, he serves on several expert committees, including the Expert Committee of the National Tripartite Coordination Meeting on Labor Relations, the Legal Advisory Committee of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions（ACFTU）, and the Legal Services and Labor Relations Committee of All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce（ACFIC）.
	Tonia Ann Novitz Professor University of Bristol UK ✉️tonia.novitz@bristol.ac.uk	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 LLRN. Her research interests encompass labour rights, collective action, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration.
	Trang Thi Kieu Tran Lecturer Deakin University/ ERC ChainGe Lab, Tel Aviv University Australia ✉️trang.tran2@deakin.edu.au	Trang Thi Kieu Tran is a Lecturer in Law at Deakin Law School, Australia and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the European Research Council’s Labour Law for a Global Value Chain Economy (ChainGe Lab) project at Tel Aviv University. She previously taught at Monash University and Hanoi Law University. Trang’s research interests include international labour standards, comparative labour law, labour movements, and the regulation of digital activism, with a focus on Vietnam and East and Southeast Asian countries.
	Tu Phuong Nguyen Lecturer The University of Melbourne Australia ✉️tu.p.nguyen@unimelb.edu.au	Tu Phuong Nguyen is a lecturer in Asian Studies at Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Her most recent publication is Law and Precarity: Legal Consciousness and Daily Survival in Vietnam (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Her research areas include labour law, political economy, authoritarian politics, and gender equality, with a particular focus on Vietnam. She used to hold a postdoctoral fellowship at Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.
	Urmila Bhoola Visiting Scholar ChainGE Lab South Africa	Urmila is an international human rights and labour law consultant and is currently a visiting Research Fellow with the ChainGE Lab.
	Valentina Franca Associate Professor University of Ljubljana Slovenia ✉️valentina.franca@fu.uni-lj.si	Valentina Franca, PhD, works as an associate professor and researcher of labour law and social security law at the Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research includes numerous studies, books, and articles in the field of collective labour relations, digitalization in labour relations and new forms of work. She is a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals and participates as a national expert in international associations such as the Worker Participation Network at the ETUI Institute in Brussels and CEELEX at the International Labor Organization. She is also an active researcher in national and international projects for various organizations, such as Eurofound, EIGE, OECD, EC and the like, and lecturer at various professional and scientific conferences.
	Valkyrie Hanson Regional Coordinator for Decent Work in Supply Chains International Labour Organization Thailand ✉️hanson@ilo.org	Valkyrie Hanson, Regional Coordinator for Decent Work in Supply Chains at the International Labour Organization, has over 20 years of experience at the intersection of trade, governance, and decent work. She is the architect of the ILO Approach to Strategic Compliance Planning for public labour regulators. Valkyrie held key roles at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala and a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua. A licensed attorney, Valkyrie holds a Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law, American University.
	Vibhuti Nakta Assistance Professor Panjab University, Chandigarh India ✉️vibhuti.nakta@gmail.com	Dr. Vibhuti Nakta is an assistant professor at the Department of Laws, Panjab University. She completed her B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) degree from UILS, Himachal Pradesh University, and Ph.D. in Labour Laws from the Department of Laws, Panjab University. With expertise in constitutional law and labor law, she actively engages in legal research and academic initiatives; she has 8 years of teaching experience.
	Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni Associate Professor Southern Denmark University Sweden ✉️vincp@sam.sdu.dk	Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni is Associate Professor of Labour Law at Southern Denmark University - SDU, also collaborating with University of Paris-Nanterre and Lund University. His main interests in research are Collective Labour Freedoms, Discriminations at Work, Minimum Wages and In-Work Poverty, and the intersection of Labour Law with Digital and Environmental Transitions. He is a co-founder of the Moving Labour Collective - MLC, and the Nordic Network of Labour Law Scholars - NNLLS, and active in the organising of the Labour Law Community - LLC.
	Vitit Muntarbhorn Professor Chulalongkorn University Thailand ✉️vitit.m@chula.ac.th	Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn is currently UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. He was formerly UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, UN Special Rapporteur on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Ivory Coast, and member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.For a decade, he was a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) of the International Labour Organization. His latest book is: ‘Challenges of International Law in the Asian Region.’He is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. An Oxford University graduate and a Barrister, he is the recipient of the 2004 UNESCO Human Rights Education Prize, with a British Knighthood (KBE).
	Wayne Wei Wang PhD student University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR China	Wayne Wei Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law and Technology at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is a Non-Resident Fellow at FGV’s Center for Technology and Society (Brazil) and an ACCP Fellow at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa). He also serves as a Research Fellow (By Courtesy) at GDUFE’s Center for AI Law. With a background in Engineering and Law, his research focuses on IP, Data Protection, AI Governance, and S&T Studies, emphasizing Law, Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology (LIST) in the Automating Global South.
	Wei Tu Labour Law Specialist International Labour Organisation for China and Mongolia China ✉️tuw@ilo.org	Tu Wei is a Labour Law Specialist at the ILO CO-Beijing. His research focuses on platform work, non-standard employment, labour provisions in FTAs, and comparative labour law. He has published peer-reviewed articles and translated academic works. He previously held research roles at institutions including the Chinese Academy of Labour and Social Security and the Max Planck Institute.
	Weidong Zhang Assistance Professor Nanjing University China ✉️weidong.zhang@nju.edu.cn	Dr. Weidong Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government of Nanjing University, China. He holds a Doctor of Laws from Leiden University, the Netherlands. He teaches and researches labour law and social security law, as well as administrative law in China. He has been involved in several research projects funded by the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Scientific Research Foundation of Jiangsu Province, and the Nanjing Municipal Government. His research is published in both Chinese and international journals.
	Wen Shyue Hsiao Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Yung Attorney at Law Taiwan ✉️wenshyue@hotmail.com	Former judge of the Taiwan Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, currently practicing as a lawyer.
	William Chiaromonte Professor University of Florence Italy ✉️william.chiaromonte@unifi.it	William Chiaromonte is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Florence
	Wioletta Witoszko Associate Professor University of Bialystok Poland ✉️witoszko@uwb.edu.pl	Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok; court mediator, coordinator of the Center for Judicial Practice, member of the Local Government Appeals College. In addition to labor law, her teaching work and research interests include the employment of uniformed services officers, European labor law, social security and unemployment issues.
	Yahel Kurlander Associate Professor Tel Hai Israel ✉️yahelak@gmail.com	Dr Yahel Kurlander is a sociologist specializing in labor markets, with a focus on labor migration and gender. She is a senior lecturer and the head of the Adult Program (BA) at Tel-Hai College’s Multidisciplinary Studies Department. In her research, she explores these fundamental issues in the fields of labor markets and global labor migration, especially vis-à-vis marginalized populations such as migrant workers and women. Along with her academic pursuits, she is a dedicated activist deeply committed to various groups that advocate migration and gender issues.
	Yana Simutina Professor University of Bristol UK ✉️yana.simutina@gmail.com	Yana Simutina, D.Sc.(Law), is a Senior Research Fellow at the Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in Ukrainian labour and employment law, human rights and EU labour law. She has been a national consultant to the Council of Europe and provided academic expertise in Parliamentary working groups on drafting the Ukrainian Labour Code, laws on Collective Labour Disputes and on Social Dialogue. She was awarded a British Academy and CARA Fellowship in 2022 and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol Law School.
	Yejin Kim Lawyer (Partner/ Associate) Seoul National University South Korea ✉️yj.kim09@snu.ac.kr	Attorney at Law in Seoul National University. Ph.D. Research field : algorithmic management, artificial intelligence, data protection law, transparency
	Yingyi Luo Lecturer University of Melbourne Australia ✉️yingyi.luo@unimelb.edu.au	Dr.Yingyi Luo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, specializing in law, human rights, and bioethics. Her research explores the intersection of labor rights, AI governance, and data regulation.
	Yoko Hashimoto Professor Gakushuin University Japan ✉️20000876@gakushuin.ac.jp	After studying and working as a research associate at the University of Tokyo, I became an Associate Professor at Gakushuin University, and since 2006, I have been a Professor at Gakushuin University. I have spent time in Germany for research (2002–2004 in Göttingen and 2017–2018 in Bielefeld). My research focuses on comparative legal studies, particularly German and European labor law. My primary research topics include the definition of an employment contract or worker status and platform work.
	Yu Fan Chiu Associate Professor National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan ✉️yfchiu1229@gmail.com	Professor Yu-fan Chiu has been an Associate Professor at the School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan since 2016. Before entering the academic field, Professor Chiu practiced labor law as an attorney in Taipei and served as the Director of the Research Department at the Chunghwa Telecom Workers' Union. She also interned with the Legal and International Departments of the German Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall). Her current research examines modern inequality issues in labor relations, specifically exploring digital platform labor, and labor in global supply chains.
	Yueh Hung Hou Professor College of Law, National Taipei University Taiwan ✉️yuehhung@gm.ntpu.edu.tw	Yueh-Hung Hou is the Professor and Dean of College of Law at the National Taipei University. Dean Hou became Dean of College of Law in 2022. Dean Hou completed his Ph.D. at Hitotsubashi University, Japan in 2007. His scholarship primarily focuses on Labor Law, Civil Law and Japanese Law. He has published over 50 law review articles, book chapters, and other scholarly papers on a wide range of topics about labor law.
	Yukie Hihara Associate Professor Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo Japan	Yukie Hihara is an associate professor of labor law at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo. Her main research interests are bullying, harassment and discrimination at work. She was awarded the 2024 Incentive Award by Japan Labor Law Association and the 39th Okinaga Award by Labor Research Center with “Legal Regulation on Sexual Harassment, Discriminatory Harassment and Psychological Harassment at Work: A Comparative Study of France, Canada and Japan”, Journal of Jurisprudence Association 140(1)(3)(5)(7)(9)(11), 141(1-2) (2023-2024) [in Japanese].
	Yusuke Tsunemori Associate Professor Tokyo Keizai University Japan ✉️ytsune@tku.ac.jp	Graduated from the doctoral program at Waseda University Graduate School. PhD (Law). Specializes in social security law (poverty, child welfare, housing policy).
	Yvonne Erkens Associate Professor Leiden Law School Netherlands ✉️m.y.h.g.erkens@law.leidenuniv.nl	Yvonne Erkens works as an associate professor of Labour Law at Leiden University. Her current research focuses on compliance with core labour standards in global value chains. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Labor Rights Case Law Journal (ILaRC, https://brill.com/view/journals/ilrc/ilrc-overview.xml) and works on various research projects on international and transnational labour law. She teaches the national master's in labour law and the international advanced master's in human rights law.Dr. Erkens currently holds various ancillary positions. She is a part-time labour court judge and chair of the Commission on Research Integrity of Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Centre.
	Yvonne Sidney Oldfield Lecturer Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka New Zealand ✉️yvonne.oldfield@vuw.ac.nz	My working life has encompassed stints in the union movement (including service sector and education unions), a lengthy period as a mediator and adjudicator in the New Zealand employment institutions, and time teaching labour studies, labour relations and employment law. My main area of interest relates to issues faced by women workers particularly those in low paid, precarious work. In 2021 I returned to Victoria University of Wellington to undertake PhD research on the personal scope of international labour standards (now nearing completion) and currently teach full time on the undergraduate programme there.
	Zakaria Shvelidze Lecturer Tbilisi State University Georgia ✉️zakaria.shvelidze@tsu.ge	With over 15 years of scholarly experience, Dr. Zakaria Shvelidze he has been teaching labour law classes at Tbilisi State University. He has enhanced his academic experience through the successful completion of a visiting scholarship program at the University of Washington, School of Law in Seattle, USA. Since 2014, Zakaria has served as a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) group of trainers dedicated to developing and delivering training sessions on Labour Law and International Labour Standards for the judiciary in Georgia. Zakaria's contributions in the field have played a pivotal role in shaping labour law reforms in Georgia, involving the development of labour legislation – labour code, law on labour safety, labour inspection law and several governmental orders. He is a co-editor and author of commentaries on the Labour Code of Georgia, and author of numerous academic publications who regularly serves as a speaker at national and international conferences on labour laws and regulations.
	Ziga Podgornik Jakil Associate Researcher European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Germany ✉️podgornik-jakil@europa-uni.de	Dr. Ziga Podgornik Jakil is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He is currently working on labor law and working conditions in the German and European care sector.
	Ziyu Meng PhD student Renmin University of China China ✉️mengziyu2022@ruc.edu.cn	Meng Ziyu is a doctoral student majoring in social law at the school of law, Renmin University of China. His research interests include the basic labor standard law, the social compensation law and the law on the protection of the rights and interests of special groups.
	Zuzanna Maria Maszniew PhD student Jagiellonian University Poland ✉️zuzanna.maszniew@doctoral.uj.edu.pl	Zuzanna Maszniew is a doctoral candidate in law at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and a lawyer at Abbeys Legal Zańko i Wspólnicy sp.k. law firm in Kraków. Her research focuses on EU law, especially women’s rights and gender inequalities in labour and corporate law. A law graduate of the Jagiellonian University, she completed an exchange programme at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a research stay at the University of Bergen, Norway, under the Utrecht Network Young Researcher’s Grant. She is an author of several publications in journals recognised by the Polish Minister of Science.