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About
About
Astrid Sanders is an Associate Professor of Labour Law and joined the LSE in September 2013. She completed all her postgraduate and undergraduate studies at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Astrid was awarded her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2009. As well as her D.Phil, she earlier obtained two other postgraduate degrees at Corpus Christi College. She also achieved outstanding marks as an undergraduate in her law examinations. The University of Oxford notably awarded her two prizes for Best Performance. Prior to joining the LSE, she was a Lecturer at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham for four years from 2009 to 2013.
Research
Research Interests
- Labour Law
- Employment Law
- Relationship between labour law and contract and tort laws
- Relationship between labour law and human rights law
Publications
- 'Article 3 in the Platform Work Directive on intermediaries: Joint liability or joint employment?' European Labour Law Journal (2025) (online first)
- 'Extending Statutory Protection to Action Short of Dismissal for Participating in Industrial Action: The Supreme Court on the Right to Strike in Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer' Industrial Law Journal (2024)
- 'Fairness in the Contract of Employment' Industrial Law Journal (2017) [online in advance]
- 'The Content of Contracts of Employment; Terms Incorporated from Collective Agreements or From Other Sources’, chapter 21 in M. Freedland, A. Bogg, D. Cabrelli, H. Collins, N. Countouris, A.C.L. Davies, S. Deakin and J. Prassl (eds), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
- ‘Variation and Suspension’, chapter 23, co-written with N. Countouris, in M. Freedland, A. Bogg, D. Cabrelli, H. Collins, N. Countouris, A.C.L. Davies, S. Deakin and J. Prassl (eds), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
- 'The impact of the 'Ruggie Framework' and the 'United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights' on transnational human rights litigation, in The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back. Edited by Jena Martin and Karen E Bravo (CUP 2015)
- 'The Impact of the "Ruggie Framework" and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Transnational Human Rights Litigation' LSE Law Society an Economy Working Paper Series WP18/2014
- 'Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Disciplinary Procedures in the Workplace: Recent Developments' Revue de Droit du Travail (French labour law journal) July/August 2014 pp.490-501
- 'Does Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights Apply to Disciplinary Procedures in the Workplace?' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2013) 33 (4) pp.791-819
- 'The Law of Unfair Dismissal and Behaviour Outside Work' Legal Studies (2014) 34 (2) pp.328-352
- 'The Changing Face of 'Flexicurity' in Times of Austerity': chapter 15 in edited collection by Prof Mark Freedland Dr Nicola Countouris, Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis (CUP, 2013) pp.314-332
- ‘A Right to Legal Representation (in the workplace) during disciplinary proceedings?’ Industrial Law Journal 2010 39: 166-182
- ’"Better" Dispute Resolution in Part I of the Employment Act 2008?’ Industrial Law Journal 2009 38: 30-49
- ‘The Minimalist Approach to Minimum Standards of Procedural Fairness’ Industrial Law Journal 2008 37: 89-99
- ‘Expanding The No-Difference Rule in the Law of Unfair Dismissal’ Industrial Law Journal 2007 36: 355-363