Maayan Niezna
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Maayan Niezna
@niezna.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Labour exploitation, migration, trafficking, and all things coercion/consent.
The @slsauk.bsky.social Call for Papers is out, and we're looking for abstracts for the #Labour Law and Society stream! Join us in Brighton (UK), March 2026. Further details and abstract submission: www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...

@arwenjoyce.bsky.social @ingathiemann.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
תלביב, 26.8.25
August 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Next, @ingathiemann.bsky.social from @leicesterlawschool.bsky.social on 'Whose rights anyway? queer sex workers, ideal women and competing feminist visions of sex worker rights in the ECHR', looking at end-demand legislation in the European context.
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
First, Sharmila Parmanand @lseblogs.bsky.social 'Anti-trafficking or anti-immigrant? Exploring the coloniality of anti-trafficking in the Philippines' -
How the Philippines' travel restrictions on its own citizens reproduce coloniality.
July 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
ChainGE Lab panel #LLRN7: Holding Lead Firms Accountable to Supply Chain Violations: Legal Methods and Challenges
Maria Odete Freire de Araújo presentation on 'the sisal #supply_chain in Brazil and the necessity of holding leading companies responsible in order to safeguard workers' dignity'
June 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
@cfrosado.bsky.social 'From the margins to the Citadel: how domestic workers can help reimagine the law of work in the USA', suggesting that if various acts protecting domestic workers' rights were to be codified, they would dramatically change US employment law.
June 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Starting #LLRN7!
First speaker of the first panel of the first day ('Time’s Up!: Rethinking Standards in Boundaryless Work') @nataliesedacca.bsky.social on 'Labour in a private home: enforcement, privacy, and human rights', with interesting insights on the regulation of domestic work in 4 contexts
June 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Last (parallel) panel of the day brings together several perspectives of international law - multilateral disputes, climate justice, conceptualising collective security (in light of Althusser and other dead French scholars), and the International Anti-Money Laundering Framework
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fascinating panel on Health and medical law, including questions concerning Aesthetic Injectables, the potential contribution of Ethics of care to regulating assisted dying and the Mental Capacity Act. @livunislsj.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The @livunislsj.bsky.social PGR Conference has started! A great opportunity to hear insights from the research projects within the School. The first panels include research projects on family, gender, international law, human rights and children's rights
May 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Important (and depressing) talk by @vcanning.bsky.social on 'Intersectional Trajectories of Torture and Torturous Violence in Asylum Regimes' @livunislsj.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And - it's a wrap! Grateful to @arwenjoyce.bsky.social & @ingathiemann.bsky.social, best co-convenors and amazing friends; to everyone who contributed to the Labour Law and Society stream #SLSA2025, and to @slsauk.bsky.social & @livunislsj.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!
April 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Yesterday was also my chance to present initial findings from @britishacademy.bsky.social project @livunislsj.bsky.social exploring migrant workers & modern #slavery victims' understandings of labour exploitation as well as agency and meaning at work
April 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And Maayan Menashe (A Two-Maayan panel!) on a project w/ @sarahfraserbutlin.bsky.social & @cbarnard.bsky.social on 'Re-Imagining Employment Dispute Resolution in the UK', sharing insights from a large project and comparing litigation & ADR as possible solutions.
April 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
2/ Followed by @fionacostello.bsky.social & @cbarnard.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social on the experiences of older EU migrant workers in low paid work in the UK; highlighting concerns over access to benefits and housing, administrative obstacles and health conditions
April 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Not the most important thing, but can we agree that a conference that has Purple.Vegan.Chocolate is, by definition, great?
#SLSA2025 @livunislsj.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finally, Michele Dilenge on the challenges platform work poses for social security.
April 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Angelika Kuzma explores 'Emergent Privacy Standards in the Workplace: Articulating the More Pervasive Harms of Algorithmic Management and Surveillance Capitalism', and the tension between innovation and efficiency on the one hand, and privacy on the other.
April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
2nd, @maxmorris.bsky.social on 'Queer Porn in the Play Economy: What Distinguishes Amateur from Professional Sex Work?', drawing from Marxist and Feminsit ideas of work and queer methodology to understand queer sexuality, sex work and 'play' rather than 'work'.
April 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
2nd day of Labour Law & Society #SLSA2025 @livunislsj.bsky.social! Starting off our panel on 'Platforms, privacy and the play economy',
Rebecca Rose Nocella 'The Employment Rights Bill 2024: A ‘One-Size-Fits-All-Approach’ for Adult Content Creators?'
April 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Joint event of #LPE and #Labour Law and Society streams closing the floor rest day of #SLSA2025, discussing Judy Fudge's book ‘Constructing Modern Slavery: Law Capitalism and Unfree Labour’
@ingathiemann.bsky.social @jackmeakin.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
last, @nataliesedacca.bsky.social presenting a chapter from a forthcoming book, focusing today on ‘The Devaluation of Domestic Work: Regulatory Reform and Challenges to the Perception of a ‘Family-Like’ Relationship’, the role of 'benevolent maternalism', and the potential of human rights law.
April 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Elisabeth Griffiths presenting her work w/ Lyndsey Bengtsson @northumbriauni.bsky.social on ’Living a Reproductive Life in the Workplace: #Menopause as disability’; exploring stigma in talking about menopause and seeking support and Employment Tribunal cases considering menopause.
April 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Now, Grace James @unirdg-law.bsky.social on a large collaborative project on ‘Breastfeeding and Return to Work Realities: Exposing the Tensions and Re-imagining the (Legal) Solutions’.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM