During this year’s conference held by the Labour Law Research Network and scheduled for June 2021 (University of Warsaw/online), the „Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievements in Labour Law“ will be presented for the fifth time. This year’s winners are Professor Professor Monika Schlachter englisch (Universität Trier/IAAEU) and Professor Matthew Finkin (University of Illinois, USA).
The Labour Law Research Network, founded in 2011, will be celebrating its ten-year anniversary this year. The Network is currently an association of 79 different institutes and centers world wide, bound together by their independent research in areas of labour law. Besides research, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge is a top priority, especially in regards to international research cooperations on current and global issues. Efforts are expressed through the aforementioned conference, which takes place biannually, with participants from the Network itself and also with junior researchers presenting their results and opening up discussions.
The Bob Hepple Award is named after the renowned British post-war representative of comparative law in the field of labour law. Following the statutes of the association, the award is presented every two years in appreciation of an exceptional life-long endeavour in the field of labour law. Each member of the association is entitled to recommend nominees. The nomination committee then chooses a figure, whose work has reached significant acclamation in no less than the past twenty years and signifies this figures capability as a representative of the field. Previous award winners have been colleagues from Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Japan, the USA and Sweden; in Germany lastly Professor Manfred Weiss (2015, University of Frankfurt).
This year’s award winner, Professor Monika Schlachter, teaches in the department of law at the University of Trier and is head of the IAAEU’s Judicial Department. She has gained acclaim with a number of contributions to European and international labour law, as well as through comparative labour law and international labour law.
The Labour Law Research Network, founded in 2011, will be celebrating its ten-year anniversary this year. The Network is currently an association of 79 different institutes and centers world wide, bound together by their independent research in areas of labour law. Besides research, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge is a top priority, especially in regards to international research cooperations on current and global issues. Efforts are expressed through the aforementioned conference, which takes place biannually, with participants from the Network itself and also with junior researchers presenting their results and opening up discussions.
The Bob Hepple Award is named after the renowned British post-war representative of comparative law in the field of labour law. Following the statutes of the association, the award is presented every two years in appreciation of an exceptional life-long endeavour in the field of labour law. Each member of the association is entitled to recommend nominees. The nomination committee then chooses a figure, whose work has reached significant acclamation in no less than the past twenty years and signifies this figures capability as a representative of the field. Previous award winners have been colleagues from Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Japan, the USA and Sweden; in Germany lastly Professor Manfred Weiss (2015, University of Frankfurt).
This year’s award winner, Professor Monika Schlachter, teaches in the department of law at the University of Trier and is head of the IAAEU’s Judicial Department. She has gained acclaim with a number of contributions to European and international labour law, as well as through comparative labour law and international labour law.