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Professor Ruth E Dukes is a Professor of Labour Law and Deputy Director of Research in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. She holds fellowships with the Academy of Social Sciences and is an emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland. Since 2024, she has served as Vice President of the Institute of Employment Rights. Her roles include membership in the Labour Law Research Network, Adapt International Scientific Committee, and the Editorial Board of the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal.
Education: Graduated from the University of Edinburgh, Humboldt University Berlin, and the London School of Economics. Notable fellowships include an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (2011/12) and a MacCormick Fellowship at Edinburgh University. In 2022, she was the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Research Interests: Focus on collective labour law, worker representation theories, trade union law, and labour history (British, German, European). Current projects include analyzing Otto Kahn-Freund’s contributions to labour law and the Work on Demand ERC-funded study on evolving work contracts. Recent publications include Democracy at Work (2023) and The Labour Constitution (2014, SLSA Prize runner-up).
Grants & Awards: Recipient of the European Research Council Starting Grant (€1.42M, 2017–2023). Other grants include a British Academy International Fellowship (2024) and a Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellowship (2020). Awards include the SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize (2016).
Supervision & Teams: Advising PhD students Neil Saddington (algorithmic management) and Qingqin Zhang (workplace surveillance). Collaborates with Wolfgang Streeck and others on interdisciplinary projects. Leads the Class Conflict and Institutional Change initiative exploring the origins of labour law.
