Professor Lizzie Barmes, MA (Oxon), BCL (Oxon), Solicitor (England and Wales) non-practicing

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Professor of Labour Law

Location: Mile End
email: e.m.barmes@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3941
Fax: +44 (0)207 882 7042
Website: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?p

Professor Lizzie Barmes' SSRN page

Professor Lizzie Barmes will give her inaugural lecture on 16 May 2012

Lizzie Barmes joined the Department of Law in 2007. She previously taught at UCL (1999-2007) and was a Government Lawyer in the Common Law Team of the Law Commission of England and Wales (1995-1999). Prior to that she practised as a solicitor. On completion of her training (1988-1990), she specialized in employment, equality and personal injury litigation (1990-1994).

Professor Barmes main research interests are in the fields of equality and employment law. Her main ongoing projects are about positive action, judicial diversity, vulnerable working in the UK and the legal response to workplace bullying. She is also part of an inter-disciplinary Queen Mary team that is establishing an AHRC research network on ‘Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis’.

Professor Barmes co-edits the Recent Cases section of the Industrial Law Journal, is on the Executive Committee of the Industrial Law Society and the Equal Justices Initiative.

Professor Barmes has a particular interest in inter-disciplinarity. She has drawn on the work of organisational psychologists to inform analysis of the law on workplace bullying, highlighted convergences and divergences between management thought on diversity and developments in equality law and is now exploring new ways of analysing case law in order to enhance understanding, first, of the impact of law on the workplace and, secondly, of the exercise of state power that adjudication entails.

This builds on her experience at the Law Commission, where she worked on many of the papers in the series on Damages for Personal Injury and, in particular, Damages for Personal Injury: Collateral Benefits (1997) Law Commission Consultation Paper 147, & the eventual Report, Law Com 262 and Damages for Personal Injury: Non-Pecuniary Loss (1999) Law Com No 257. The latter was innovative in its use of empirical evidence and resulted in the changes to the tariff of awards in Heil v Rankin [2001] QB 272.

Publications:

Key Publications

'Learning from Case Law Accounts of Marginalized Working', forthcoming in J Fudge, S McCrystal and K Sankaran (eds) Regulating Legal Work: Challenging Legal Boundaries (Hart Onati Series, 2012).
L Barmes & K Malleson, ‘The Legal Profession as Gatekeeper to the Judiciary: Design Faults in Measures to Enhance Diversity’ (2011) 74 MLR 245
‘Navigating Multi-Layered Uncertainty: EU, Member State and Organizational Perspectives on Positive Action’ forthcoming in G. Healy, G. Kirton & M. Noon (eds) Equality, Inequalities and Diversity - From Global to Local (2010)
‘Equality and Experimentation: The Positive Action Challenge’ (2009) 68 CLJ 623-652
'Constitutional and Conceptual Complexities in UK Implementation of the EU Harassment Provisions’, (2007) 36 Industrial Law Journal
Joint Guest Editor Special Issue of the ILJ, Reconstructing Employment Contracts and contributor, ‘Common Law Implied Terms and Behavioural Standards at Work’ (2007) 36(1) ILJ
‘Worlds Colliding: Legal Regulation and Psychologists’ Evidence about Workplace Bullying’ in B Brooks-Gordon and M Freeman (eds) CLI 9 Law and Psychology (Oxford: OUP, 2006) 274
‘The Continuing Conceptual Crisis in the Common Law of the Contract of Employment’ (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 435
with Sue Ashtiany, "The Diversity Approach to Achieving Equality: Potential and Pitfalls" (2003) 32 Industrial Law Journal 274
‘Promoting Diversity and the Definition of Direct Discrimination’ (2003) 32 ILJ 200
‘Remedying Workplace Harassment?’ in (2002) 55 CLP (Oxford: OUP, 2003), 347
‘Adjudication and Public Opinion’ [2002] 118 LQR 600
‘Law Reform at the Intersection: Non-Pecuniary Loss for Personal Injury, the Law Commission and Judicial Process’ (2002) 31 Common Law World Review 286

Work in progress/Conference papers

'Setting the Scene for the PEDEC Dec 2010 Workshop on Mapping the Equality and Diversity Effects of Economic Crisis' (PEDEC outputs: podcast and notes available)

Supervision:

Professor Barmes welcomes proposals for postgraduate research in any area of employment and equality law.

Undergraduate teaching:

LAW6039 Labour Law