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Online Tribunal Judgments and the Limits of Open Justice

Since February 2017, Employment Tribunal decisions from England, Wales, and Scotland have been made freely available online. Today, the website lists over 70,000 decisions, uploaded as individual .pdf...

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Abigail Adams-Prassl

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Specific Performance

When should specific performance be available for breach of contract? Civil law systems make it the primary remedy for breach, while the common law treats it as a humble exception...

10 September 2020

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Contracts and Choice Theory, Part 2 – Why Autonomy Must Be Contract’s Ultimate Value

In our book The Choice Theory of Contracts (Cambridge, Amazon, SSRN), we develop a liberal theory of contract law. In three forthcoming essays, we reply to critics...

4 February 2019

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US First Amendment Employment Law Case Quotes Game of Thrones and Serves as a Reminder to Employers to Respect Freedom of Political Association

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an employment law decision that began with the following Game of Thrones quote: ‘A wise man once said a true history of...

7 September 2017

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In Case You Don’t Want to Miss It - 'Different Ways of Working Conference: Reforming Employment Law, Tax and Social Security for the 21st Century'

Recent events – from employment litigation about the status of ‘gig economy workers’ and the abortive attempt to increase National Insurance contributions for the self-employed earlier this year, through to rising...

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A Third Employment Category for On-Demand Workers?

This past week, the Central London Employment Tribunal ruled that Uber drivers are workers entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay, and Uber vowed to appeal. The...

3 November 2016

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Miriam A. Cherry

Work in the Gig Economy: TaskRabbit, Uber &Co as Employers?

Employment law has long struggled to adapt to new forms of employment – who should be responsible for the protection of workers rights, from minimum wage and working time to...

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Jeremias Adams-Prassl

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