KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
XXIV WORLD CONGRESS - THE QUEST FOR LABOUR RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, Rome
- Adrián Goldin
- Philip Alston
- Anja Eleveld
- Hugo Barretto Ghione
- Takashi Araki
- Evance Kalula
- Janice Bellace
- Antonella Occhino
- Carmen Saez Lara
- Sarosh Kuruvilla
- Achim Seifert
- Manfred Weiss
- Beryl Ter Haar
- Caterina Carvalho
- Grega Strban
- Tamás Gyulavári
- Ulla Liukkunen
- Mauricio Godinho Delgado
- Kamala Sankaran
- David Lantarón Barquín
- Juan Pablo Mugnolo
- Jeremias Adams-Prassl
- Gaetano Zilio Grandi
- Jorge Cavalcanti Boucinhas Filho
- Bernd Waas
- Eri Kasagi
- David Carvalho Martins
- Catherine Barnard
Adrián Goldin
Adrián Goldin
Adrián Goldin is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, an Honorary President and former President of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law, and former president of the Argentine Association for Labour and Social Security Law. He is a member of the scientific board of the International Labor Review and the Revue de droit comparé du travail and a member of the Advisory Board of the “Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal” as well as of many other labour law journals worldwide.
Philip Alston
Philip Alston
Philip Alston is a professor at New York University Law School. He has been: Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991-98), Adviser to the UN HCHR on the Millennium Development Goals, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions (2004-10) and UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (2014-20).
Anja Eleveld
Anja Eleveld
Anja Eleveld is an associate professor in social law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the co-editor in chief of the European Journal of Social Security. She has conducted various empirical-legal and theoretical research projects on unequal power relations in the context of work and social security. Her recent research focuses on the future of social security in times of climate change and ecological crisis.
Hugo Barretto Ghione
Hugo Barretto Ghione
Hugo Barretto Ghione is Full Professor of Labour Law and Social Security at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Republic (Uruguay). Editorial secretary of the journal Derecho Laboral, founded in 1948, and contributor to the journal Comparative Labour and Social Security Law. Technical adviser at various meetings of the International Labour Conference of the ILO. Member of the Ibero-American Academy of Labour and Social Security Law and of the European and Latin American Centre for Social Dialogue of the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Evance Kalula
Evance Kalula
Evance Kalula, an eminent African legal scholar, is the first African Chairperson of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association. He holds several degrees from universities in Zambia and England, including a PhD. Kalula is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, an Honorary Professor at the University of Rwanda, and a fellow of various prestigious institutions. He has served in several high-profile positions related to labor and employment law in South Africa and internationally.
Janice Bellace
Janice Bellace
Janice Bellace is a Samuel Blank Professor Emerita of Legal Studies at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Janice was a member of the ILO’s Committee of Experts from 1995-2010 and a president of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. She is currently a judge and vice president of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. In July 2020 she was appointed as one of the U.S. national panelists for the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism under the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Antonella Occhino
Antonella Occhino
Antonella Occhino is Full Professor of Labour Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics. She has published monographs on the subject of legal expectations in labor and social security relations, the time-off in labor law, agency work, voluntary work and third sector entities, and numerous articles on the various topics of the discipline. She has edited two volumes with an interdisciplinary approach on equality and the workplace.
Carmen Saez Lara
Carmen Saez Lara
CARMEN SAEZ LARA is a Full Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at Córdoba University and a chair of the Labor Law and Social Security department, a Counsel at the Spanish Constitutional Court (1994-2000). She authored more than a hundred publications, including journal articles and book chapters, and 10 monographs on fundamental rights, gender, collective bargaining, and trade union action.
Sarosh Kuruvilla
Sarosh Kuruvilla
Sarosh Kuruvilla is currently Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs at Cornell University. His research interests focus broadly in the area of comparative industrial relations and specifically on the linkages between economic development and labor policies and skills development in the Asian region. His research has informed policy and practice in many Asian countries. He has worked in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, S. Korea, Taiwan, India, and China. He currently directs the Global Labor Institute for the study of labor in global supply chains, at Cornell university.
Achim Seifert
Achim Seifert
Achim Seifert, a Full Professor at the University of the Sarre, has held positions at the Universities of Jena and Luxembourg. With a PhD and Postdoc from the University of Frankfurt/Main, his research focuses on Employee Participation, Data Protection, and Comparative Law. Seifert is a co-editor and editorial board member of several prominent labor law journals.
Grega Strban
Grega Strban
Grega Strban is a Full Professor and head of the Labour and Social Law Department at the University of Ljubljana, a President of the Slovenian Association of Labour Law and Social Security, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is a member of the European Committee of Social Rights at the Council of Europe.
Takashi Araki
Takashi Araki
Takashi Araki, a Professor of Law and former Dean at the University of Tokyo Law School, has held several significant positions in Japan, including membership in the Labor Policy Council, and serving as Chair and Vice Chair of the Tokyo and Central Labor Relations Commissions, respectively. Internationally, he has been a general reporter at the Tulin World Congress (2018) and Vice President of the ISLSSL (2009-12, 2018-21).
Tamás Gyulavári
Tamás Gyulavári is a Chair of the Labour Law Department at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest and the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN). He was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute (2013). He has been a visiting professor at Porto, Bologna, Santiago de Compostela, Vienna, Beirut, Quito, Jakarta and Loyola Chicago Universities. He has published and edited 13 books and over 60 articles in Hungarian and over 15 articles in English, including top journals such as Industrial Law Journal, European Labour Law Journal, and Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. He is the editor of the “Hungarian Labour Law E-Journal".
Ulla Liukkunen
Ulla Liukkunen
Ulla Liukkunen is professor of labour law and private international law at the University of Helsinki. In 2022, she gave lectures on 'Mandatory Rules in International Labour Law' at the Hague Academy of International Law. She was a general rapporteur of the IACL XXth World Conference, Fukuoka 2018 with the theme 'The Role of Collective Bargaining in Labour Law Regimes'. She is a Member of the Board of the European China Law Studies Association. Professor Liukkunen was the director of the Finnish China Law Center for several years and has done research on Chinese labour law oriented towards the methodology of comparative labour law.
Mauricio Godinho Delgado
Mauricio Godinho Delgado
Mauricio Godinho Delgado is a Full Professor at University Centre of the Federal District and Judge at Brazilian Federal Superior Labor Court (TST), both in Brasília, Brazil. He has a PhD in Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is Director of Brazilian National School for Training and Improvement of Labor Judges (2023-2024). He has published several books and articles in Brazil and abroad.
Kamala Sankaran
Kamala Sankaran
Kamala Sankaran is Professor of Law, Ford Foundation Chair in Public Interest Law at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She teaches comparative public law, constitutional law and a course on informality and the world of work. Her research interests include constitutional law, international labour standards, and the regulation of work. She is a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), ILO.
David Lantarón Barquín
David Lantaron Barquin
David Lantarón Barquín is a Full Professor and a Chair of the Occupational Health and Safety Department at the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several specialized journals. He was a visiting professor and researcher at the Sapienza University, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Pantheon-Sorbonne, COMPTRASEC, and EUROFOUND.
He was a Magistrate Pro Tempore (2003-2009) at the Superior Court of Justice (Social Jurisdiction Chamber), an arbiter to settle labour conflicts related to the election of workers and officials representation (1994-2003).
Juan Pablo Mugnolo
Juan Pablo Mugnolo
Juan Pablo Mugnolo is a Chair of the Labor and Social Security Law Department, at Buenos Aires University. He received his PhD at the University of Granada, Spain. His key publications are "Collective Bargaining Structure and the State Influence on its configuration”; "Collective Agreements: Concurrence, Articulation and Succession" and “The Work Organization in the Digital Economy and the Human Resources Analytics: a LATAM Comparative Law Perspective".
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and is the author of over 100 articles and books, including most recently Humans as a Service: the Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy (OUP 2018) and Great Debates in EU Law (Bloomsbury 2021). His work has been recognised by prizes and awards including the Modern Law Review’s Wedderburn Prize, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize, and the 2020 Leverhulme Prize.
Gaetano Zilio Grandi
Gaetano Zilio Grandi
Gaetano Zilio Grandi is currently Full Professor of Labour Law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Venice School of Management where he teaches Labour Law, Industrial Relations Law and New Technologies, Labour Law in Business Administration. He serves as Vice-Rector for General and Legal Affairs, staff relations and dealings with Ca' Foscari University Foundation. His main research interests concern Labour Law and Industrial Relations. He published several books and articles in authoritative national journals. He is the President of the Certification Commission for employment contracts at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Jorge Cavalcanti Boucinhas Filho
Jorge Cavalcanti Boucinhas Filho is a Lawyer and a professor of Labor Law in the Law Schools of Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Universidade São Judas and in the Business Administration School of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas - EAESP / FGV. He was the General Dean of the OAB SP Law School for the three-year period 2019- 2021. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Labor Law (Chair 21) and its former Director for International Relations (2022-2024).. He is Vice-Leader of the Research Group on Migration and International Labor Law (GEMDIT) at the University of São Paulo Law Faculty (USP) and he is a member of the Research Group Public Policy as an instrument for effecting citizenship, at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
Manfred Weiss
Manfred Weiss born 1940. Full Professor for German, European, international and comparaticve labour law and civil law (simce 1974 in Hamburg, then at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Emeritus since 2008). Visiting Professor in many universities all over the world. President of the International and Employment Research Association (ILERA) 2000 – 2003. Deputy President of German Lawyers' Association (DJT) 1998 – 2002. For many years consultant to the ILO and to the Commission of the EU. Many publications mainly in labour law and (co)editorshipsof books and Journals. Bob Hepple Award of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) for lifetime achievement in labour law. Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).
Bernd Waas
Professor Bernd Waas is mainly active in the field of European, international and comparative labour law. He initiated the formation of the European Labour Law Network (ELLN) which is busy, among other things, with bringing about a Restatement of Labour Law in Europe. In the years 2008-2016 he was (co-)coordinator of the labour law experts network providing advisory services to the Directorate General (DG) for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (EMPL) of the European Commission. Since 2016, he has been the coordinator of the European centre of expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE) on behalf of the DG (EMPL).
Eri Kasagi
Eri Kasgi is Professor at the University of Tokyo since 2021 as well as research fellow at
French CNRS since 2015, and specialized in social security law in Japan. Her work often
includes comparative law analyses with France, as well as with other countries such as
Canada and European countries. Her latest publications include ; E. Kasagi=S. Dake=T.
Natano=K. Watanabe, Social Security law (Syakai-hoshō hō), Yuhikaku, 2018 (in
Japanese), E. Kasagi (ed.), Solidarity Across Generations - Comparative Law
Perspectives, Springer, 2020, E.Kasagi, «Surmonter la division et
l'exclusion du marché du travail au Japon; l'intervention du droit et ses limites » in;
Beryl ter Haar
Beryl ter Haar is UW Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed professor European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research deals with international and European labour law, especially collective bargaining, social dialogue, new governance, transnational private regulation, and the future of labour law. She has published widely on these issues in national and international journals and edited books. She is co-editor of several books and a member of editorial boards of various (labour) law journals. She is co-founder and co-organiser of the Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition.
David Carvalho Martins
Coordinator of the World Young Scholars Section of the ISLSSL
Former co-coordinator of the European Young Scholars Section of the ISLSSL
Vice-Chair of the General Assembly of the APODIT - Portuguese Labor Association
Invited Professor of ISEG - Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon
Founder and Managing Partner of DCM | Littler Law Firm (Portugal) and Partner of Chiode Minicucci | Littler (Brazil)
Caterina Carvalho
Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Oporto Law School. Coordinator of the Master in Employment and Labour Law. Researcher at Católica Research Centre for The Future of Law (CRCFL). Organization and Coordination of several National and International Conferences, Seminars and Postgraduate Studies regarding Employment and Labour Law and EU Labour Law. Author of several publications in Labour and Civil Law. She is part of scientific boards, as referee or editor, of several legal journals. Participation in several European projects related to EU Labour Law. General Vice-Coordinator of the Academic Network on The European Social Charter and Social Rights between 2016 and 2022.
Catherine Barnard
Catherine Barnard, FBA, FLSW, FRSA is Professor of EU law and Employment Law and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2022, 7th ed), and (with Peers ed), European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2023, 4th ed). She is a member of the European Commission funded European Labour Law Network (ELLN). She is also a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE) (http://ukandeu.ac.uk/) project (UKCE).
