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Virginia Mantouvalou is keynote speaker at Biennial New Zealand Labour Law Conference

3 December 2015

Virginia Mantouvalou

聽Director of Graduate Research Studies at 香港六合彩 Laws was invited to be the keynote speaker at the聽聽held in Wellington on 27 November.

Her research on the interaction between Human Rights and Labour Law was the subject of her presentation, entitled 鈥楬uman Rights at Work鈥, fitting with the broader conference theme on 鈥楥hallenges of Regulating Future Labour Markets鈥.

Virginia examined the effect of human rights on labour law over the decades in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and English Courts, arguing that human rights law serves as an important critical perspective for labour law matters.

Speaking of her experience at the conference, Virginia said there was a high level of engagement and discussion with the participants: 鈥淪ome of the delegates commented that the human rights angle is particularly topical for New Zealand academics, trade unionists and practitioners, who are starting to explore human rights law can be used in New Zealand as an avenue for 鈥榳orker voice鈥.鈥