Alan Bogg
Professor of Labour Law
Alan is an academic and barrister specialising in the general fields of labour and employment law. He has published widely across a 25-year academic career. His academic work has been cited with approval in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal, United Kingdom Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Canada, European Court of Justice, and in other appeal courts in commonwealth jurisdictions.
He was awarded the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research in 2014. He retains an Emeritus Fellowship at Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he was Professor of Labour Law until 2017. During that time, Alan served as Senior Tutor at Hertford College and Vice Dean (Graduate Research) in the Law Faculty. Following a family move to the South West, Alan is currently working at the University of Bristol where he is Professor of Labour Law. He was REF coordinator at Bristol Law for REF 2021. He maintains his link with the University of Oxford as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law where he continues to teach labour law on the BCL.
His monograph, Freedom of Association: From Labour Law to the Constitution, was published by OUP in July 2026. He is the co-author of the leading text, Human Rights at Work, the first edition of which was published by Hart-Bloomsbury in 2024. He is also working on a monograph with Cindy Estlund (NYU) which examines the possibility of republican freedom and citizenship in liberal capitalist workplaces.