Lecturer
Maitrise Droit des Affaires, Certificat Droit Social (Strasbourg) (1994), LLM (Leicester) (1996)

Email: pascale.lorber@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 5685

Pascale Lorber has been teaching in the department since 1995. She is currently the Course Director for the LLM in Employment Law (by Distance Learning). Over the years, she has taught employment law and French law at undergraduate level.

She is a member of the editorial team of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and of the Bulletin de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale. She is also the UK representative of an academic European Network on Labour Law (EWL). Pascale has recently been involved in the providing of training on atypical workers for the International Labour Organisation.

Research Interests

Pascale’s research focuses principally on Employment Law and European Social Policy, mainly workers' participation and employee representation. She is also interested in the regulation of atypical forms of employment, particularly fixed-term work.

Selected Publications

• Lorber, P, ‘United Kingdom National Report’ in F Dorssemont and T Blanke (eds.) The Recast of the European Works Councils Directive (Intersentia/ETUI, 2010); ISBN 978-94-000-0075-9; xxiii+ 419 pages; at 213-223.
• Lorber, P, ‘Worker Participation and Industrial Democracy: Strengthening Information and Consultation’ in E Ales, T Jaspers, P Lorber, C Sachs-Durand and U Wrendeling Fundamental social rights in Europe: challenges and opportunities? [Intersentia, 2009.xxiv + 163 pp. ISBN 978-90-5095-878-3] at 125-140.
  
• Lorber, P ‘Worker Participation and Industrial Democracy: Strengthening Information and Consultation’ in E Ales, T Jaspers, P Lorber, C Sachs-Durand and U Wrendeling Fundamental social rights in Europe: challenges and opportunities? [Intersentia, 2009.xxiv + 163 pp. ISBN 978-90-5095-878-3] at 125-140.
• Lorber, P, 'Achieving the Fixed-Term Work Directives' Aims: United Kingdom Implementation and Comparative Perspectives' in Pennings, F, Konijn, Y, and Veldman, A (eds) Social Responsibility in Labour Relations - European and Comparative Perspectives [Kluwer Law International, 2008. 533 pp.] at 311-329.
• Lorber, P, ‘Implementing the Information and Consultation Directive in Great Britain: A New Voice at Work’ (2006) 22 IJCLLIR 231-258.
• Lorber, P, ‘Reviewing the European Works Council Directive: European Progress and United Kingdom Perspective, (2004) 33 ILJ 191-199.
• Lorber, P, ‘Labour Law’ in Peers, S, and Ward, A, The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights [ Oxford: Hart, 2004. 388 pp.] at 211-230
• Lorber, P. 'National Works Councils: Opening the Door on a Whole New Era in United Kingdom Employment Relations' (2003) 19 IJCLLIR, 297-319.
• Lorber, P. “The United Kingdom Employment Policy: A Success Story?” in Job Creation and Labour Law edited by M. Biagi (Kluwer, 2000) 301 p. ISBN:90-411-1432-7, 289.
• Lorber, P. "Regulating Fixed Term Work in the United Kingdom: A Positive Step towards Workers' Protection?" (1999) vol. 15, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 121.
• Lorber, P. "Information and Consultation" in The Transfer of Undertakings in the Public Sector edited by C. Bourn (Ashgate Dartmouth, 1999) 250 p. ISBN: 184014 772 5