Since the financial crisis and the attempts made subsequently to alleviate sovereign debt, European Union (EU) Member States have pursued policies that limit access to legally recognised forms of ‘employment'. Such policies have well-documented effects on individual employment rights, such as...

Policy implications:The EU–South Korea Panel of Experts Report (‘the Report’) confounded expectations by asserting that it had jurisdiction to consider a breach of core labour standards under the relevant provision of the relevant Free Trade Agreement (FTA), regardless of whether there was...

Achieving sustainability is possible. The adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and the Paris Agreement in the same year created a new impetus for the debate on how to do so. With an emerging recognition of the serious risks of continuing with unsustainability, there is...

The crisis which arose suddenly at the beginning of 2020 relating to coronavirus was immediately centred on risk. Predictions had to be made swiftly regarding how it would spread, who it might affect and what measures could be taken to prevent exposure in everyday social interaction, including...