Autonomy of Labour Law

Alan Bogg is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Hertford College.Cathryn Costello is Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor in International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development.ACL Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Oxford and Garrick Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College.Jeremias Prassl is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.

• Part I: Labour Law’s Autonomy: Theory and Methodology 1 Otto Kahn-Freund, the Contract of Employment and the Autonomy of Labour Law Mark Freedland2 Contractual Autonomy Hugh Collins3 Labour Law and the Trade Unions: Autonomy and Betrayal Alan Bogg4 Common Law Confusion and Empirical Research in Labour Law Lizzie Barmes5 Evaluating the Reflexive Turn in Labour Law Diamond AshiagborPart II: Labour Law’s Autonomy: Core Organizing Concepts 6 Autonomous Concepts in Labour Law? The Complexities of the Employing Enterprise Revisited Jeremias Prassl7 Uses and Misuses of ‘Mutuality of Obligations’ and the Autonomy of Labour Law Nicola Countouris8 Migrants and Forced Labour: A Labour Law Response Cathryn CostelloPart III: Labour Law’s Autonomy: Labour Law, Public Law and Human Rights 9 Labour Law as Public Law ACL Davies10 Equality Law: Labour Law or an Autonomous Field? Sandra Fredman11 Labour Law as Human Rights Law: A Critique of the Use of ‘Dignity’ by Freedland and Kountouris Christopher McCrudden12 The EU Internal Market and Domestic Labour Law: Looking Beyond Autonomy Phil Syrpis and Tonia NovitzPart IV: Labour Law’s Autonomy: Labour Law, Commercial Law and Economic Theory 13 Labour Law as the Law of the Business Enterprise Alice Carse and Wanjiru Njoya14 Conceptualizing the Employer as Fiduciary: Mission Impossible? Jill Murray15 Efficiency Arguments for the Collective Representation of Workers: A Sketch Paul Davies16 Labour Law on the Plateau: Towards Regulatory Policy for Endogenous Norms Deirdre McCann

...an important and extremely readable contribution to current debates regarding the idea of labour law, and an affectionate and fitting tribute to Freedland.