UCD Distinguished Guest Lecture in Employment Law 2023

The UCD Sutherland School of Law’s Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture in Employment Law – an integral part of the School’s Professional Diploma in Employment Law – has provided students in, and graduates of, the Diploma programme, as well as the wider employment law community, with the opportunity of hearing from leading international scholars on a variety of key issues.

Previous speakers have included Professors Bernd Waas (Frankfurt), Keith Ewing (KCL), Frank Hendricks(Leuven), Claire Kilpatrick (EUI), Catherine Barnard (Cambridge) and Jeremias Prassl (Oxford). The 2022 lecture was delivered by Lord John Hendy QC.

The 2023 lecture will be delivered by Professor Matt Finkin of the University of Illinois and currently a visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Professor Finkin, in addition to authoring numerous articles and books, is the co-editor of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal and, in 2021, was awarded the Bob Hepple Award for Life-Time Achievement in labour law by the LabourLaw Research Network.

Professor Finkin’s topic is “The Privitization of Justice and the Atomization of the Worker: the U.S. Supreme Court’s Love Affair with Employment Arbitration”. The lecture will take place in the UCD Sutherland School of Law at 6pm on Monday, 24 April 2023. Attendance is not confined to graduates of the Professional Diploma in Employment Law but registration is essential.

Venue: William Fry Theatre (L143), UCD Sutherland School of Law. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the Gardiner Atrium.