Pascale Lorber

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 Bulletin de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale and had previously held a similar position for the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 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. She also acts as an expert for the European Trade Union Institute on projects relating to European Works Councils.

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 and Novitz T, Industrial Relations in the UK (Intersentia 2012) ISBN 978-90-5095-959-9; xii +172 pages.
• Lorber P, ‘La protection des travailleurs en contrats à durée déterminée : l’utilisation délibérée de la Directive’ (2012) 1 Revue de Droit Comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale, 71-79
• 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 Ales, E, Jaspers, T,  Lorber, P, Sachs-Durand, C and Wrendeling, U (eds), Fundamental social rights in Europe: challenges and opportunities? (Intersentia, 2009) ISBN 978-90-5095-878-3, xxiv + 163 pages,  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 pages, 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 (Hart 2004) 388 pages, 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 Biagi, M (eds), Job Creation and Labour Law edited (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) 15 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 121.
• Lorber, P, ‘Information and Consultation’ Bourn, C (eds), The Transfer of Undertakings in the Public Sector (Ashgate Dartmouth, 1999) 250 pages, ISBN: 184014 772 5