RESEARCH PROFILE

As a specialist on European, International & Comparative Employment Law, Professor Neal has served on various expert committees for the Social Affairs Directorate of the European Commission since 1985, and acts as an Independent Expert for the International Labour Organisation. He regularly advises national governments in the field of employment law and social policy, and is actively involved in the provision of specialised judicial training, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, in the areas of employment law and human rights.

Between 2003 and 2006 he headed a joint project between the United Kingdom FCO and the Chinese Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MOLSS), establishing a Labour Arbitration Court for China. He was one of the two independent experts advising the Chinese Labour Ministry on preparation of a new Labour Contracts Law for the PRC, as well as acting as an independent international expert in relation to the PRC's new Labour Disputes Arbitration Law.

Professor Neal completed studies on The Evolution of Labour Law for DG Employment of the European Commission (2004), and undertook work for the United Kingdom Health & Safety Executive on the impact of 2003 statutory changes to the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999, on the sanction of disqualification for company directors guilty of health and safety offences, and on transposition of European Union health and safety Directives into United Kingdom law.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Professor Neal's books include Fundamental Social Rights at Work in the European Community (1999), European Social Policy and the Nordic Countries (2000), the 2-volume set: European Labour Law and Social Policy. Volume I, Social Dialogue, Industrial Relations and Labour Law, Volume II, Dignity, Equality and Security at Work (2nd edition, 2002), The Changing Face of European Labour Law and Social Policy (2004) and (with Linda Dickens) The Changing Institutional Face of British Employment Relations (2006).

BACKGROUND

Alan Christopher Neal, LLB (Warwick), LLM (London School Of Economics), DGLS (Stockholm), Barrister (Gray's Inn), is Professor of Law and Director of the Employment Law Research Unit. He is a lifetime Professor in the Zhejiang University (PRC), and Visiting Professor in the Beijing Jiao Tong University (PRC), as well as in the University of Paris II (Pantheon). Formerly, he was Professor of Law in the University of Leicester (1988-2000). He has been Visiting Professor in the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Salford, and in the University of Trento.

Called to the Bar of Gray's Inn in 1975, Professor Neal is a practising barrister with Cloisters (1 Pump Court, Temple) and with 2 New Street Chambers (Midland & Oxford Circuit, Leicester). He holds judicial office (since 1995) as a part-time Employment Judge (London Central), and has been Convenor of the European Association of Labour Court Judges since 1996. He is a member of the ILO's group of senior labour judges.

Professor Neal was the founding editor and is now Scientific Director of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, having been its Editor-in-Chief between 1984-1995. He sits on the editorial boards of a number of international and comparative journals, and is the General Editor of the monograph series Studies in Employment and Social Policy (published by Kluwer Law International).

TEACHING PROFILE

Courses Taught

• International Labour Law
• LA309 Law of Labour Relations

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Dickens L, Neal A C (eds)(2006) The Changing Institutional Face of British Employment Relations Editors: Dickens L, Neal A C (9041125418) The Hague: Kluwer
• Neal A C (ed)(2004) The Changing Face of European Labour Law and Social Policy Editors: Neal A C (9041123121) The Hague: Kluwer International
• Neal A C(2002) European Labour Law and Social Policy: Cases and Materials - Volume I: Social Dialogue, Industrial Relations and Labour Law (second edition) (9041119167) The Hague: Kluwer
• Neal A C(2002) European Labour Law and Social Policy: Cases and Materials - Volume II: Dignity, Equality and Security at Work (second edition) (9041119175) The Hague: Kluwer
• Neal A C (ed)(2000) European Social Policy and the Nordic Countries (0754621391) Ashgate

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• Labour Laws and Hukou Inequality in the People?s Republic of China, Date of Completion: 2010
• Judicial Independence in Ethiopia
• Developing Labour Law in Ethiopia