Warmest congratulations to Jack Beadsworth who successfully defended his PhD at @laws.ucl.ac.uk with two incredible examiners, @cbarnard.bsky.social & ACL Davies. It was an absolute joy to be Jack's supervisor on 'Migrant Labour Law' with Nicola Countouris. Congratulations again, Dr Beadsworth!

Congratulations to Professor @vmantouvalou.bsky.social for being selected Runner Up at the @innertemple.org.uk Book Prize 2025, a major triennial competition for outstanding authorship. ⚖️ 📖 ➡️ Read the news story: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/pr...

A huge thank you to @hinabokharild.bsky.social for tabling & helping pass the London Assembly motion calling for more rights for migrant domestic workers to help them avoid exploitation! Thanks also to the other members for voting in support! Read the motion here: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

Truly honoured that my book Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights was selected as Runner Up for the @innertemple.org.uk book prize, a major triennial competition for outstanding authorship.

This Thursday we're celebrating the work of Honorary Professor Lord Hendy in our event 'Class Struggle and the Law'. Join us. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Judgments from the @echr.coe.int have influenced policy in areas like mental health, reproductive rights and access to essential medical treatments. Leaving the #ECHR would be a blow for health, justice and accountability, writes @martinmckee.bsky.social👇 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/391/... via @bmj.com

A video of our UCL event on 'Reforming Human Rights after the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act' is available below. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

New post Prompted by an excellent conference at @biicl.bsky.social marking the ECHR's 75th anniversary, I reflect in this piece on key themes about the likely trajectory of the UK's human rights debate, given the current (and developing) political climate. publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/07/t...

The seasonal worker visa’s structure impedes union organising, with workers in the country for no longer than six months. But with the scheme ongoing since the 2019 pilot and looking like it’s here to stay, it makes sense to ask whether major unions could be doing more to overcome these challenges

NEW Blog Post! ”’The Coldplay Incident: Work and Private Life” by Virginia Mantouvalou @vmantouvalou.bsky.social uklabourlawblog.com/2025/11/05/t...

We have this very interesting new post on @labourblog.bsky.social exploring the fairness of people losing their jobs over activities that take place outside work (like the unfortunate Coldplay couple) and its implications for the right to private and family life under Article 8 ECHR

Two weeks left to apply for a PhD at UCL Laws — ranked the UK’s top law school for research quality (REF 2021). 🎓 Deadline: 18 Nov, 5pm (UK) Apply: buff.ly/YRdH08Q Join our research community and help shape the future of law. 🌟 #LawSky #PhDOpportunity

I wrote a blog post for the @labourblog.bsky.social on “‘The Coldplay Incident’: Work and Private Life” uklabourlawblog.com/2025/11/05/t...

Join UCL Laws for an upcoming UCL Labour Rights Institute event: 📢 Class Struggle and the Law: An evening in conversation with Lord Hendy KC 📅 27 November 2025 | ⏰ 6pm | 🏛️ UCL Laws 🔗 Book for free www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Join us at UCL on Monday 17/11, 1-2pm, for an exciting event on 'Cities and Human Rights', with Marius Pieterse as a speaker, and Elena de Nictolis as commentator. I'm very much looking forward to chairing it. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Join us for symposium on our book Human Rights at Work (with @thebigbogg.bsky.social, H Collins, ACL Davies) on 5 November, at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford, with Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Claire Darwin KC & Kate O' Regan. Chaired by @marijajovanovic.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Very proud of Joy* a long-standing member of Kalayaan's campaign group, winning the Human Trafficking Foundation Award for Best Opinion Piece on Modern Slavery in parliament earlier this week. Read Joy's story here: metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/t... #AntiSlaveryDay #ModernSlavery #SurvivorLeadership

A typically powerful and very alarming piece by Conor Gearty on domestic courts and the Human Rights Act: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A true honour that my monograph, Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, is shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2025, a triennial book prize for outstanding authorship. It is shortlisted with three other outstanding books by Sean Coyle, @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social &Liron Shmilovits

We will miss you greatly, our brilliant, charismatic friend. www.linkedin.com/posts/virgin...

Do you want to help transform the lives of migrant domestic workers? Kalayaan is recruiting for 6 types of volunteer roles this autumn. If you are passionate about justice and human rights, we want to hear from you: www.kalayaan.org.uk/get-involved...

Grateful for such a thoughtful review of my monograph on Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights, together with Robert Goodin's and @maevemckeown.bsky.social's books on structural injustice, by Ashley Dodsworth in the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last month @kalayaan.org.uk had a special event in Parliament, "Breaking the Silence". Domestic workers under the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa shared their experience on the effects of the visa and the need for change. Grateful to all speakers and to Lord German who opened the afternoon.

We're hiring at @laws.ucl.ac.uk: full rank search in corporate and financial law, from lecturer (assistant prof) to associate and full prof. Multiple posts. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great to see the Overseas Domestic Worker visa and the work of Kalayaan covered in ITV news with such a powerful clip. Very grateful also to Baroness Helena Kennedy for her support.

Today I donated to MamaSuze to honour the memory of Annabel Rook, who dedicated her life to helping others. MamaSuze support survivors of displacement and domestic violence through workshops. Read about Annabel Rook and donate if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Watch this video by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to learn more about migrant domestic workers in the UK and the work of @kalayaan.org.uk Thank you for you support, Zoe.

Thank you so much for joining us at today’s event to mark #DomesticWorkersDay, Hina.

We've had a wonderful afternoon celebrating #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay with our community and allies @focusonlabour.bsky.social @effat.org @zrinka.bsky.social & others. Stay tuned for more from us this week as we continue our work to restore rights to this workforce 💪

📗 Hot off the UCL Press! This week marked their 20 millionth download, and it was 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 co-edited by UCL Laws' @vmantouvalou.bsky.social along with @jowolff.bsky.social. 🔓 The book is available via Open Access @uclpress.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/structu...

Some lovely news. @uclpress.bsky.social has just had its 20 millionth open access download. And the download in question was Structural Injustice and the Law, edited by @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and myself. uclpress.co.uk/book/structu...

Great discussion today on the recent report by UN Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata, who opened with key findings, @laws.ucl.ac.uk Thanks to the Rapporteur and co-contributors @vmantouvalou.bsky.social, Mario Guido, and Marija Jovanović.

We had an excellent @laws.ucl.ac.uk event on the Report on the labour rights of incarcerated people with the UN Special Rapporteur Professor Tomoya Obokata. Thanks very much to the Rapporteur and contributors Mario Guido, @hadassanoorda.bsky.social and Marija Jovanovic.

Tomorrow: @ucl.ac.uk online event with the UN Special Rapporteur Prof Tom Obokata on contemporary slavery affecting incarcerated people. Speakers incl. Mario Guido, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social, @hadassanoorda.bsky.social, and chaired by Dr Marija Jovanovic. 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Important investigatory journalism on working conditions in immigration detention in Denmark reveals asylum seekers may be working in conditions of forced labour, contrary to international standards. Glad to have discussed findings for article below (in Danish). www.information.dk/indland/2025...

Final Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Looking forward to participating in this event!

Depressing to see the “research at risk” at the Harvard website. Solidarity with all colleagues doing brilliant work in universities in such circumstances. www.harvard.edu

New Blog Post! ‘The Limits of Positive Action under the Equality Act 2010’ by @jamesahand.bsky.social uklabourlawblog.com/2025/05/08/t...

New Blog Post: The UK Supreme Court Judgment Has Brought Much Needed Confusion: Why For Women Scotland Did Not Change UK Discrimination Law - by George Letsas uklabourlawblog.com/2025/05/07/t...

I've been greatly enjoying my visit as a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, teaching Human Rights at Work, presenting research, interacting with brilliant colleagues and students. Seeing kangaroos has been a special highlight during my visit.

Lovely to end the week with this dropping onto the doormat. A real pleasure to be part of this collection with @lynnemcmordie.bsky.social, and a tiny part of a wider and brilliant flurry of work on structural injustice and Iris Marion Young’s ideas. Thanks @vmantouvalou.bsky.social!

I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire. www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...

To mark the 13 year anniversary of changes to the ODW visa trapping workers in abusive employment, migrant domestic worker 'Joy' shares her story of battling the UK's immigration systems and her work campaigning for change: metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/t...

Migrant domestic workers don't have an unconditional right to change employer, and @kalayaan.org.uk marked today 13 years of the harmful visa. In 2022, @nataliesedacca.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on the problems of the visa and what needs to change: uklabourlawblog.com/2022/04/06/t...

Join us for an online event on the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on work in prison and post-release. The Rapporteur will present his Report and there will be comments by @hadassanoorda.bsky.social, Mario Guido and me. The event is chaired by Maria Jovanovic. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

I published a piece on 'State-Mediated Structural Injustice' on the Public Philosophy blog of the American Philosophical Association. It is based on the idea that I developed in my monograph, Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights (OUP 2023). blog.apaonline.org/2025/04/01/s...

New Blog Post! Could the absence of a gender identity be “gender reassignment” under the Equality Act 2010? – by Dr Mollie Gascoigne uklabourlawblog.com/2025/03/31/c...

Join us for a seminar on Structural Injustice and the Law, which I co-edited with @jowolff.bsky.social. It’s organised by Adalberto Perulli at Ca’Foscari in Venice on 10/4. In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers. Further details in the poster.

if this area of law and practice seems like w mess, that’s because it is. @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming piece about the practical and legal difficulties accessing user messages/device data on their personal devices using various information rights here… doi.org/10.31219/osf...