Faculty

Alan Bogg received his undergraduate and graduate education in Oxford, being awarded his BA in Law (first class) in 1997. Thereafter, he was awarded the degrees of BCL (first class) and DPhil. Following a period as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Alan returned to Oxford in 2003 to take up his fellowship at Hertford College. Alan’s research focuses predominantly on theoretical issues in domestic, European and International labour law. His book ‘The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition’ was published in 2009 by Hart Publishing. It was awarded the SLS Peter Birks’ Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010. The book has been reviewed in the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Industrial Law Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Law in Context, Industrial Relations Journal (UK), Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia), Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and Canadian Journal of Employment and Labour Law. Additionally, his work in labour law has been published in a wide variety of international journals.

He is currently coordinating a Leverhulme International Research Network with Professor Tonia Novitz at the University of Bristol following the successful award of a large scale grant. Details of the network’s activities can be found here: www.voicesatwork.org.uk. The network includes academics from Stanford, Osgoode Hall, and Monash Universities. Additionally, current research projects include: the intersection between migrant status and labour rights; European Social Dialogue and theories of deliberative democracy; and the constitutionalisation of freedom of association in comparative perspective. His work has been cited by Advocate Generals in the Court of Justice of the European Union in respect of working time regulation. Most recently, his work was cited with approval by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on the issue of sham contracts of employment in Autoclenz v Belcher. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights.

Chris Rootham is a partner with Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP, and practises in the Labour Law and Employment Law groups. He advises employees and trade unions in issues related to labour, constitutional law, administration, privacy, and personal information. As the Director of Research for the firm, Chris assists all lawyers and consultants with complicated legal research. He currently co-teaches the Employment Law course at the University of Ottawa. He has also taught written advocacy to moot court students, participated in the Dean’s Research and Writing Fellows Program, and taught Labour Law at Queen’s University. After Chris clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal, he completed a Masters of Labour Law degree at the London School of Economics. Chris is the author of Labour and Employment Law in the Federal Public Service. This resource explains the complex laws and regulations governing the federal public service in Canada. Chris enjoys the puzzle of the law, piecing together and solving a problem using legal knowledge and mechanisms. He can often be found poring over law reports, and he is dedicated to remaining up-to-date with legal trends. Chris is committed to his clients, and always strives to be responsive and accessible to them. Outside of the office, Chris likes to be involved in sports. He has curled for almost ten years, and is currently convener for the RA Centre for their mixed curling league. Chris also jogs and regularly plays Ultimate Frisbee.

Claire Mummé is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law where she teaches contract law, labour law and employment law. Claire is a former SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholar and a former McMurtry Fellow of the Osgoode Legal History Society. Her research focuses on law’s distributional effects and its role in structuring institutions of the market, as examined through the legal regulation of waged-employment. For a full bio click here.

Hazel Oliver is currently a part-time research and training lawyer at Lewis Silkin LLP, specialising in employment law. Hazel sits as an Employment Judge at the Bristol Tribunal dealing with workplace disputes, and as a Judge in the Information Rights Tribunal dealing with appeals against on freedom of information requests and data protection enforcement. She has a Masters degree in law from the University of Oxford and University of Toronto, and has previously taught labour law at the London School of Economics.

Kevin Banks is Associate Professor of Law at Queen’s and the Director of the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, and a co-ordinating editor of Labour and Employment Law, Cases, Materials and Commentary. His published research addresses relationships between economic globalization and labour and employment law; the influence of originating political struggles on workplace equality law in North America and the European Union; the role, governance, and potential influence of international and transnational labour law; the extent and causes of gaps in the workplace accommodation of persons with disability; the accessibility and effectiveness of employment standards compliance and enforcement; efficiency and delay in Canadian labour arbitration; and the role of good faith in the contract of employment.

Professor Banks is also a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association, and of the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. He has been appointed to several dispute settlement rosters established under free trade agreements. He chaired the international arbitral panel that ruled on a dispute concerning the labour provisions of the US-Central America Tree Trade Agreement, the first such case decided anywhere in the world.

Professor Banks previously served in a number of senior positions within the Public Service of Canada, including Director General, Labour Policy and Workplace Information, Director of Research with the Federal Labour Standards Review Commission, and Director, Inter-American Labour Co-operation. Prior to this he represented trade unions and other employee associations as counsel.

He holds an LL.B. (1989) and B.A. (1986) in economics from the University of Toronto, and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2003).

Michael Lynk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. He joined the Faculty in 1999, and has taught courses in labour, human rights, disability, constitutional and administrative law. He served as Associate Dean of the Faculty between 2008-11.

Professor Lynk is the co-author, with Michael Mac Neil and Peter Engelmann, of Trade Union Law in Canada (Thompson Reuters). He is the co-editor, with John Craig, of Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and the co-editor, with Susan Akram, Michael Dumper and Iain Scobbie, of International Law and the Middle East Conflict (Routledge, 2011). He is a contributing author to Employment Law in Canada (4th ed.), with Peter Barnacle as principal revising author.

He has served as a labour arbitrator since 2000. Since 2007, he has been a vice-chair and arbitrator with the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board.

In January 2015, Professor Lynk was named to the Mayor of London’s Honours List for his work on humanitarian issues.

In May 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Professor Lynk as Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 for a six-year term. In his capacity, he delivers regular reports to the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on human rights trends in the OPT.

Ruth Dukes is Professor of Labour Law. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2005 having graduated from the University of Edinburgh (LLB), the Humboldt University in Berlin (LLM), and the London School of Economics (PhD).

Professor Dukes is a member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Labour Law Research Network, the Adapt International Scientific Committee, the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights, the Project Board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, and the Editorial Board of the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal. In 2011/12 she was an Early Career Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In 2022, she was the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada. From 2018 until 2023, she held a European Research Council Starting Grant which funded the project Work on Demand: Contracting for Work in a Changing Economy. Dukes is the author of The Labour Constitution: the Enduring Idea of Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2014) and, with Wolfgang Streeck, Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice (Polity 2023).