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Prof Nicola Countouris
Room 339
Bentham House
Endsleigh Gardens
London
WC1H 0EG
Appointment
- Professor of Labour Law and European Law
- Faculty of Laws
- UCL SLASH
Biography
Nicola Countouris joined UCL Laws in 2009 and was promoted to a Professorship in 2015. Before joining UCL he had 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 and on a number of European Commission projects, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna, Pompeu Fabra, Nantes, and Seinan Gakuin.
He is one of the co-ordinators and founding member of UCL’s Labour Rights Institute, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights.
He is also a contributing editor for the International Labour Law Reports series, an editor of the European Labour Law Journal and for the Italian journal Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali, a co-coordinator of the ILERA study group on Labour Law and Industrial Relations, and a founding member of the international ‘Labour Law Research Network’.
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Nicola's main research interests are in Labour Law, UK, international, and comparative EU Law, Social Security Law, and Public Law. He is currently working on a number of projects ranging from the impact of the ongoing economic crisis on (European and UK) labour and social law, to the relationship between free trade and labour standards, to the role of G. A. Cohen's work in the analysis of labour relations. He is currently writing a monograph seeking to offer a novel and critical understanding of the integration and fragmentation dynamics affecting European Labour Law, and remains committed to the study and understanding of the law of the contract of employment.
Teaching Summary
Current Teaching:
Undergraduate
Employment Law
EU Law
Public Law I
Postgraduate:
European Employment and Equality Law
International Labour Rights in the Global Economy
PhD Supervision:
June Namgoon
Academic Background
| 2004 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Oxford | |
| 2001 | Masters | University of Oxford | |
| 2000 | Master of Science | London School of Economics and Political Science |
