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Prof Nicola Countouris
Professor of Labour Law and European Law
Faculty of Laws
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2009
Research summary
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
Education
- University of Oxford
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2004
- University of Oxford
- Other higher degree, Masters | 2001
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Other higher degree, Master of Science | 2000
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 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’.