LSE holds a unique place in the birth and development of industrial relations and labour law in the UK. The School's founders, the Webbs, inventors of the term 'collective bargaining', laid the foundations for studying labour relations and their regulation in a broad social context. Labour law was taught at LSE from 1903 and comparative labour law from 1934, whilst no other UK university taught labour law until after the second World War. It was to LSE that Kahn-Freund came as a refugee from Germany in 1933 and, with his famous conceptualisation of Britain as a collective laissez-faire system, developed a sophisticated empirical and conceptual framework for thinking about labour law, one subsequently elaborated upon by, in particular, Lord Wedderburn, Paul Davies, and also Hugh Collins at LSE. While labour law and the labour market mutate rapidly, there is an enduring focus on the multiple sources of legislative and private norm production in labour law, how best to justify labour law, and which regulatory techniques can deliver its objectives.
Faculty
Professor Hugh Collins
Dr Astrid Sanders
Recent publications
- Hugh Collins ‘Relational and associational justice in work’ (2023) 24 (1) Theoretical Inquiries in Law 26–48
- Hugh Collins 'Interpersonal justice as partial justice' (2022) 1 (2) European Law Open 413–422
- Hugh Collins 'Fat Cats, Production Networks, and the Right to Fair Pay' (2022) 85 Modern Law Review 1.
- Hugh Collins 'The Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Source of European Private Law', in Stefan Grundmann and Mateusz Grochowski (eds), European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms (Intersentia, Cambridge, 2021) 73-95
- Hugh Collins 'The Emerging Human Right to Protection against Unjustified Dismissal' (2021) 50 Industrial Law Journal 36-69
- Hugh Collins 'Employment as a Relational Contract' (2021) Law Quarterly Review 426-450
- Hugh Collins 'The Duty of Loyalty and the Scope of the Law of Fraud', in A Bogg, J Collins, M Freedland, and J Herring (eds), Criminality at Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) 116-133
- Hugh Collins 'Dependent Contractors in Tax and Employment Law', in Glen Loutzenhiser and Rita de la Feria (eds), The Dynamics of Taxation (London: Bloomsbury, Hart Publishing, 2020) 117-131
- Hugh Collins 'Justice at Work'LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 18/2019
- Hugh Collins 'Fairness in the Contract of Employment'Industrial Law Journal (2017) [online in advance]
- Hugh Collins '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)
- Hugh Collins ‘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)