Labour law historians rarely write about the theoretical and methodological foundations of their discipline. In response to this state of affairs, this article adopts a reconnaissance strategy, which eschews any pretense at providing a synthesis or authoritative conclusions, but rather hopes to...

Italian Abstract: Blockchain può significare anche riorganizzazione dei sistemi di sicurezza sociale. Di qui l'idea di approfondire l'applicazione possibile della blockchain a alcuni istituti previdenziali, tra cui il distacco europeo, l'invalidità e il REI, per definire il quadro delle...

Harmonising Regulatory and Antitrust Regimes for International Air Transport addresses the timely and problematic issue of lack of uniformity in legal standards for international civil aviation.First, it focuses on discrepancies within the regulatory and antitrust framework and possible...

This article considers the New Zealand Court of Appeal's judgment in New Zealand Basing Ltd v Brown, which held that the Employment Relations Act 2000 does not apply to a claim for unfair dismissal by New Zealand-based pilots against a foreign-based airline where the parties have selected a...

Vital importance to any society is the establishment and conduct of human rights, including economic and social rights. This paper comparatively examines the economic and social rights within the Egyptian Constitution and local law provisions, with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...

This short article sets out A Twelve Point Plan for Labour, after a review of the pathbreaking Manifesto for Labour Law, written by a host of the most distinguished labour lawyers from Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. The essence, which became official policy at the Labour Party Conference...

In order to strengthen the efficacy of the Brussels I Regulation (recast), which has already been shown to operate effectively, it is suggested to complete it with specific rules aimed at circumscribing the jurisdictional power in respect of extra-EU cases, together with specific rules on...

How do labor standards develop in countries after international labor conventions are ratified? Previous studies suggest that despite high ratification rates, the protection of labor rights is not enhanced. Using panel data on both de jure and de facto labor conditions for 132 countries from...

Companies organize into groups for various reasons. From a legal point of view a group of companies is an interesting subject of research, since it is a topic that affects various different areas of law. Also, groups of companies are often transnational so that the parent company and the...

States employ people in a wide range of positions in their embassies and consulates abroad with such persons often performing highly similar tasks to those employed in industry or the local civil service. Yet the UK, almost alone among developed countries, continues to deny such employees the...