The project on African and European Comparative Labor Law is an effort to promote dialogue on national and global issues, build bridges across laws, political and cultural lines, encourage a new generation of labor law experts and professors in pursuing dialogue between the African experience and the European one.

The first initiative of this project will be an international conference to be held in Cagliari the 17th and 18th of May 2024. Piera Loi (University of Cagliari; email - loip@unica.it), Carla Spinelli (University of Bari; email – carla.spinelli@uniba.it), and Michele Faioli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; email – michele.faioli@unicatt.it) will serve as coordinators of the 2024 Conference. For this purpose, we invite submissions for the 2024 conference and the related special issue of the Working Papers SERI-FGB, devoted to the comparison between the African and European Labor Law.

Scholars interested in participating should submit a complete draft of their paper by February 25, 2024. Authors will be notified by March 15, 2024, if their papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to the 2024 conference and partial finance support will be granted.

For the 2024 conference and special issue, we are particularly interested in papers that address underexplored areas of research and that incorporate diverse disciplinary perspectives.

Potential topic areas include, but they are not limited to:

- Unions’ functions and collective bargaining
- New forms of employment contracts
- Digital technologies and labor relations
- Social security and intergenerational equilibrium

The proposals may be related to the (i) comparison between the African and European labor legal frames, (ii) analysis of the most significant issues of the domestic labor legal regimes in the African countries, (iii) analysis of the emerging labor legal issues of the pan-African regulations.

If you are interested, please send your draft by Feb. 25, 2024 to the following email addresses - alessandro.smilari@unicatt.it and murru.alessandro98@gmail.com.