Book Review- European Labour Law, by Teun Jaspers, Frans Pennings and Saskia Peters

Zahn, Rebecca (2020) Book Review- European Labour Law, by Teun Jaspers, Frans Pennings and Saskia Peters. [Review]

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European Labour Law, by Teun Jaspers, Frans Pennings and Saskia Peters (eds), (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2019), pp.560, inc. index, hardback, €95, ISBN: 9781780687049. At national level, it is widely recognised that labour law is an autonomous discipline which comprises elements of contract, tort, criminal and commercial law as well as constitutional law. It has been impossible to imagine the recreation of such a national understanding of labour law at the European level. European labour law has a curious character. It is patchy in its coverage of rights