The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL) aims to undertake and promote teaching of, and research into, labour and employment law and to engage with academics, practitioners, community groups and governmental organisations interested in these areas.
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CELRL Members are engaged in research in diverse aspects of the broad field of employment and labour law and labour market regulation. Areas of particular interest and expertise include the regulation of individual work relationships, discrimination and inequality in employment and the labour market, the regulation of occupational health and safety, collective labour relations and bargaining, the functions of trade unions and alternative forms of worker representation, corporate governance and labour, enforcement of minimum employment standards, international labour rights and standards, temporary migrant worker rights and unemployment law, labour market policy, and comparative labour and employment law.
Members of the Centre teach a number of graduate subjects and programs in labour and employment law in the Law School. In addition, the Centre has a sizeable cohort of research students under the supervision of Centre members.
Members of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law are involved with engagement through the media, in conferences and workshops, and through various organisations. Explore below to find out more information.
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CELRL in the media
Centre Members and Associates frequently contribute to commercial news media by participating in radio and television interviews and writing for both print and online publications. Find out more.
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Student Research Prizes and Awards
Find out more about prizes and awards available to students.
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Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) Network
The Centre is one of the founding members of the RDW Network. The RDW is a collaboration between researchers at the International Labour Organization (ILO), the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Institute for Labour Studies / Hugo Sinzheimer Instituut (AIAS-HSI), the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL), Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), the University of Durham’s Law School (DLS), the Cornell University’s ILR School, the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ), the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), the Korea Labor Institute (KLI), the University of Manchester’s Work and Equalities Institute (WEI), and academic and policy institutions from across the world. The network is interdisciplinary and involves researchers from a range of fields including economics, law, sociology, development studies, industrial relations and geography.
The objective of the RDW Network is to foster research and exchange of ideas concerning the role of labour and employment law protections in fostering economic development. The Network also aims to advance research and policy directions tailored towards making labour market regulation more effective.
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Labour Law Research Network
In 2011, the Centre assisted in the formation of a new association of labour law scholars, the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN).
The Network is based on cooperation between over 70 labour law research centres from all over the world. The goal of the LLRN is to advance research in labour law, and specifically to facilitate the dissemination of research work and encourage open discussion of scholarship and ideas in this field. All individual labour law scholars are welcome to join, whether affiliated with a research centre or not.
Centre member John Howe was a member of the inaugural Steering Committee of the Network, and was Chair of the Steering Committee from 2015-2019.