Virginia Mantouvalou

University College London - Faculty of Law

Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law

Gower St

London WC1E OEG, WC1E 6BT

United Kingdom

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‘I Lost My Job Over a Facebook Post – Was that Fair?’ Discipline and Dismissal for Social Media Activity

2019 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 2/2018
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2019
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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social media, dismissal, discipline, freedom of expression, free speech, private life, privacy, twitter, facebook, business reputation

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Are Labour Rights Human Rights?

European Labour Law Journal, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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labour rights, human rights

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The Council of Europe and the Protection of Human Rights: A System in Need of Reform

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, Joseph, McBeth, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Mar 2009
Virginia Mantouvalou and Panayotis Voyatzis
University College London - Faculty of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Council of Europe, civil rights, social rights, monitoring mechanism

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Work and Private Life: Sidabras and Dziautas v. Lithuania

European Law Review Vol. 30, pp. 573-585, 2005
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 May 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2009
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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right to work, social rights, ECHR, integrated approach to interpretation

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Is There a Human Right Not to Be a Trade Union Member? Labour Rights under the European Convention on Human Rights

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 8/2007
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Sep 2007
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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Does Labour Law Need Philosophical Foundations? (Introduction)

Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester, Virginia Mantouvalou (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, OUP, 2018.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Mar 2019
Hugh Collins, Gillian L. L. Lester and Virginia Mantouvalou
London School of Economics - Law School, Columbia Law School and University College London - Faculty of Law
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labour law, philosophical foundations, political theory, dignity, liberty, exploitation, distributive justice, workplace democracy, social inclusion

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Human Rights for Precarious Workers: The Legislative Precariousness of Domestic Labour

Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2012, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Jul 2012
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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domestic labour, human rights, labour rights, precariousness

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Legal Construction of Structures of Exploitation

Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester and Virginia Mantouvalou (eds), OUP, 2018
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Feb 2019
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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Exploitation, modern slavery, slavery, servitude, forced labour, structural vulnerability, Marx, workers’ rights, human rights

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Modern Slavery: The UK Response

Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 01 Sep 2010
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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modern slavery, servitude, forced labour, human rights, section 71 of Coroners and Justice Act 2009

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Life after Work: Privacy and Dismissal

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 5/2008
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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The ILO Convention on Domestic Workers: From the Shadows to the Light

Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 41, 2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Nov 2011
Virginia Mantouvalou and Einat Albin
University College London - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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The Case for Social Rights

DEBATING SOCIAL RIGHTS, Conor Gearty, Virginia Mantouvalou, eds., Hart Publishing, 2010, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-18
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 17 May 2010
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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social rights, welfare rights, duties, justiciability

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N v UK: No Duty to Rescue the Nearby Needy?

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Jun 2009
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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human rights, social rights, asylum, inhuman treatment, HIV/AIDS

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Private Life and Dismissal: Pay v UK

Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 38, p. 133, 2009
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2010
Hugh Collins and Virginia Mantouvalou
London School of Economics - Law School and University College London - Faculty of Law
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right to private life, dismissal, off-duty conduct, European Convention on Human Rights

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Servitude and Forced Labour in the 21st Century: The Human Rights of Domestic Workers

Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 395-414, 2006
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2015
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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The Many Faces of Slavery: The Example of Domestic Work

Summer/Autumn 2012 Global Dialogue, special issue on Modern Slavery, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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modern slavery, servitude, forced labour, domestic work, human rights

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What Is to Be Done for Migrant Domestic Workers?

Labour Migration in Hard Times, B Ryan (ed), Institute of Employment Rights, 2013
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Jan 2014
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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domestic workers, legislative precariousness, human rights, overseas domestic worker visa

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The Right to Non-Exploitative Work

V Mantouvalou, The Right to Non-Exploitative Work, in The Right to Work - Legal and Philosophical Perspectives, Mantouvalou (Ed), Hart Publishing, 2015
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Aug 2017
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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right to work, exploitation, migrant workers, undocumented, human rights

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The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 Three Years On

(2018) 81 Modern Law Review 1017-1045
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Nov 2019
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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modern slavery, servitude, forced labour, exploitation, criminalisation, victims.

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'Am I Free Now?' Overseas Domestic Workers in Slavery

(2015) 42 Journal of Law and Society 329
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Oct 2017
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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domestic labour, human rights, workers' rights, overseas domestic workers, modern slavery

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Organising Against Abuse and Exclusion: The Associational Rights of Undocumented Workers

Forthcoming in Migrants at Work, C Costello and M Freedland (eds), 2014
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Jun 2013
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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undocumented workers, migrant workers, freedom of association, human rights, labour rights, trade unions, workers’ centres, trade union autonomy, European Convention on Human Rights

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Democratic Theory and Voices at Work

Forthcoming in Voices at Work, Alan Bogg and Tonia Novitz (eds), Oxford University Press, 2014
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jan 2014
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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democracy, participatory, deliberative, freedom of association, worker voice, human rights, labour rights, European Convention on Human Rights

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Labour Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights: An Intellectual Justification for an Integrated Approach to Interpretation

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Labour Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights: An Intellectual Justification for an Integrated Approach to Interpretation

(2013) 13 Human Rights Law Review
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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labour rights, human rights, capabilities theory, integrated approach, social rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Labour Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights: An Intellectual Justification for an Integrated Approach to Interpretation

Human Rights Law Review, 2013
Posted: 05 Mar 2013
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law

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labour rights, social rights, integrated approach, European Convention on Human Rights, capabilities theory

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Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work

Structural Injustice, McKeown and Browne (eds), 2022 Forthcoming, Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 2/2022
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 12 May 2022
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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structural injustice, Young, responsibility, exploitation, human rights, welfare conditionality, precarious work

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Active Industrial Citizenship of Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from Unionizing Attempts in Israel and the United Kingdom

Theoretical Inquiries in Law Volume 17(1), 2015
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Einat Albin and Virginia Mantouvalou
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and University College London - Faculty of Law
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industrial citizenship, active citizenship, domestic workers, gender, migration

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Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights

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Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights

(2020) 83 Modern Law Review 929
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Nov 2021
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law
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welfare conditionality, welfare-to-work, structural injustice, precarious work, human rights, exploitation, in-work poverty.

Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice, and Human Rights

the Modern Law Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 25 Feb 2020
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law

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welfare conditionality, welfare-to-work, structural injustice, precarious work, human rights, exploitation, in-work poverty

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Structural Injustice and the Human Rights of Workers

(2020) Current Legal Problems
Posted: 21 Sep 2020
Virginia Mantouvalou
University College London - Faculty of Law

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structural injustice, modern slavery, forced labour, domestic work, Universal Credit, prison labour, immigration detention, human rights

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Redfearn v. UK: Political Association and Dismissal

Modern Law Review, 2013
Posted: 26 Mar 2013
Virginia Mantouvalou and Hugh Collins
University College London - Faculty of Law and London School of Economics - Law School

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Dismissal, human rights, test of fairness, Article 11 ECHR, freedom of association, domination

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Debating Social Rights

DEBATING SOCIAL RIGHTS, Peter Crane, ed., Hart Publishing, Forthcoming
Posted: 30 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2010
Conor A. Gearty and Virginia Mantouvalou
London School of Economics - Law School and University College London - Faculty of Law

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social rights, human rights, poverty, justiciability, enforcement