Labour Law and Social Security Forum

The Labour Law and Social Security Forum is a research center dedicated to the fields of labour, employment, social security and welfare law. It serves as a basis and provides supportive framework for research, teaching and public discussion in these fields among scholars from various relevant disciplines, research students, judges, practitioners and activists. The Forum is a member of the Labour Law Research Network.

 

The activities of the Forum are supported by the Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law Fund.

 

The Forum organizes workshops, conferences and special lectures. Most of our events are conducted in Hebrew; the full details can be found on the Hebrew pages. Events held in English are also listed below. 

 

The Furom coordinator is Prof. Guy Davidov. To join our mailing list and receive updated on events, please write to Prof. Davidov.

 

Faculty members specializing in labour law:

Prof. Guy Davidov

Dr. Einat Albin

 

Upcoming Events

Compliance with and Enforcement of Labour Laws: An International Workshop

 

Past Events 

Automation and Labor Law

Social Media And Workers’ Rights

Symposium on Guy Davidov, A Purposive Approach to Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2016)

 

 

 

Events in English during the 2016/17 academic year:

16:30-18:00, room 119

 

Nov. 27, 2016

Dr. Arian Renan - Barzilay, Haifa University 

“Platform Inequality: Gender in the Gig Economy”

 

Dec. 11, 2016

Dr. Avishai Benish, Hebrew University

“Infusing Public Law into Privatized Welfare: Lawyers, Economists and the Competing Logics of Administrative Reform”

 

Dec. 18, 2016

Dr. Einat Albin, Hebrew University

“Marketplace Intimacy”

 

Jan. 1, 2017

Prof. Claudia Schubert, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Digitalization of the Working World and Crowdsourcing

 

Jan. 29, 2017

Dr. Pnina Alon-Shenker, Ryerson University, Canada

“The Aging Workforce in Canada”

 

Feb. 5, 2017, 16:00, The Belgium House, Edmond J. Safra Campus 

Symposium on Guy Davidov, A Purposive Approach to Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2016).

Opening remarks: Prof. Aharon Barak, formerly President of the Israeli Supreme Court. Discussants: Prof. Harry Arthurs (Osgoode Hall), Prof. Simon Deakin (Cambridge), Prof. Ruth Dukes (Glasgow), Prof. Guy Mundlak (Tel-Aviv), Dr. Einat Albin (Hebrew U). Reply: Prof. Guy Davidov (Hebrew U).

 

Conference on: Social Media And Workers’ Rights

May. 7, 2018, 10:45, Room 503, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem.