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Thoughts from Livorno: Slavery, Freedom and Unfreedom I was in the port of Livorno earlier this week on my way back to London from the beautiful islands of Elba and Pianosa.  Now Tuscany’s third biggest city, it remains an important port but in the late sixteenth century, it was the largest slave trading port forContinue reading “Thoughts from Livorno”

Yesterday, City Law School hosted an exhibition and discussion by Professor Deepanshu Mohan of OP Jindal University on the work he has done over the last years documenting the work of low-wage, migrant workers in various parts of India. A wide ranging thought-provoking multi-disciplinary work, rendering visible people who are invisible. The ILO uses theContinue reading “Informal Labour”

Last week, I was returning in my labour law lecture to the point that labour law legislation has been strongly determined by the ‘colour’ of the government, statutes in colour in my lecture slides, when a non British student asked me to remind them who was red and who was blue. I explained, with aContinue reading “Do you dream in colour?”