Labour Law Utopias

Nicolas Bueno is Assistant Professor of Law at UniDistance Suisse. He completed his PhD in public international law at the University of Lausanne after a research stay at Columbia Law School (2012-2013, Fulbright). He conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Louvain (2016), the London School of Economics (2017), and at the University of Zurich (2018-2021) with research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research in Labour Law & Political Economy has been published in the International Labour Review, the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law. His current project focuses on the economic ideology of labour law from classical liberalism to post-growth economics. Beryl ter Haar is UW Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed professor European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research deals with international and European labour law, especially collective bargaining, social dialogue, new governance, transnational private regulation, and the future of labour law. She has published widely on these issues in national and international journals and edited books. She is co-editor of several books and a member of editorial boards of various (labour) law journals. Nuna Zekic is Associate Professor of labour law at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies - Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (AIAS-HSI) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Previously, she worked at Tilburg University where she also obtained her PhD in the field of labour law. Her expertise lies in the area of labour law and more precisely, dismissal law, flexible working arrangements, and collective bargaining. She has published widely on these issues both in national and international journals. She has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Lund University in Sweden. She acts as deputy judge at 's-Hertogenbosch Appeal Court in the Netherlands.