About the authors

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/instemplrighj.4.0.0004
• Published date: 01 January 2021
• Date: 01 January 2021
• Pages: 4-6

About the authors

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About the authors

Nicola Countouris

Nicola is Director of the Research Department at the European Trade Union

Institute (ETUI) and a Professor in Labour Law and European Law at the

Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL). Before joining the ETUI

and UCL he taught law at the universities of Reading, LSE, and Oxford, where

he also obtained his DPhil under the supervision of Professor Mark Freedland.

He has acted as an independent expert for the International Labour Office,

the ETUC, and on a number of European Commission funded projects. He is

the author and co-author of some 55 publications.

Keith Ewing

Keith Ewing is a Professor of Public Law. Professor Ewing joined The Dickson

Poon School of Law in 1989. Prior to this he was Visiting Professor at the

University of Western Australia (1992); at the University of Alberta (1987–1988)

and at Osgoode Hall Law School (1982). He has also held positions at the

University of Edinburgh(1978–1983) and at the University of Cambridge

(1983–1989). Professor Ewing’s research interests are in labour law and consti-

tutional reform, with special reference to the relationship between social rights

and constitutional law. He is President of the Institute of Employment Rights

and legal editor of the journal International Union Rights. He is also a President

of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom.

Andrew Moretta

Andrew was awarded his PhD by Liverpool University in 2019. For the IER he

has written Access to Justice: Exposing the Myths (2016) and, with Professor

David Whyte, Securing International Standards of Health and Safety at Work

(2020).

David Whyte

David is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool and a

member of the Executive Committee of the IER. He is author of the IER publi-

cation Regulatory Surrender (with Steve Tombs, 2010). His research and

teaching interests focus on the connections between law and corporate

power. He has researched the regulation of business in a wide range of con-

texts (including working conditions, institutional fraud and corruption,

economies of war and conflict and human rights violations), and the ways

that the law maintains and reproduces violence (as part of a ‘war on terror’,

in the workplace and in ‘austerity’ policies).