To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland’s retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the boundaries and connections between labour law and other legal disciplines such as company law, competition law, contract law and public law; labour law and legal methodologies such as reflexive governance and comparative law; and labour law and other disciplines such as ethics, economics and political philosophy. In so doing, it represents a cross-section of the most sophisticated current work at the cutting edge of labour law theory.

...an important and extremely readable contribution to current debates regarding the idea of labour law, and an affectionate and fitting tribute to Freedland. -- Ruth Dukes * Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal *

This book not only contains excellent contributions from outstanding scholars; that is taken for granted when we speak about ‘Oxford labour law’. Most valuable is the insider information that the authors provide about labour law scholars in Oxford. This insider knowledge, sometimes even jokes, make the reading of the book not only
worthwhile, but highly entertaining.

-- Erika Kovács * European Journal of Social Security *

Alan Bogg is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Hertford College.
Cathryn Costello is Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor in International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development.
ACL Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Oxford and Garrick Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College.
Jeremias Prassl is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.