Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labour Law

The Labour Law Research Network, representing the global community of labour law scholars, recognizes exceptional and longstanding contributions with the Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labour Law. The Award was previously called the LLRN Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Labour Law. In 2015, the LLRN Advisory Committee decided to rename the Award in honour of the late Bob Hepple, one of the inaugural recipients of the Award, as a permanent reminder to all labour law colleagues of Bob's towering achievements. It was hoped that the renaming of the Award will in some small, symbolic way, help to ensure that Bob's generous spirit will always be with us.   

 

 

LLRN Award Guidelines 

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2023

 

Prof. Janice Bellace

See the presentation remarks from Dr Beryl ter Haar

 

Prof. Adelle Blackett

See the presentation remarks from Dr Vera Pavlou

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2021

 

Prof. Matthew Finkin

See the presentation remarks by Prof. Takashi Araki

 

Prof. Monika Schlachter 

See the presentation remarks made by Dr Miriam Kullmann

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2019

 

Prof. Mark Freedland

See the presentation remarks made by Prof. Alan Bogg (University of Bristol - Centre for Law at Work)

 

Prof. Ann Numhauser-Henning

See the presentation remarks made by Prof. Mia Ronnmar (Lund University)

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2017

 

Prof. Katherine Stone

 See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Julia Lopez (Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona) 

 

Prof. Kazuo Sugeno

 See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Matthew Finkin (University of Illinois) 

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2015

 

Prof. Silvana Sciarra

See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Mark Freedland (University of Oxford)

 

Prof. Manfred Weiss

See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Nicola Smit (North West University, South Africa)

 

LLRN Awards Recipients 2013

 

Prof. Bob Hepple

See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Silvana Sciarra (University of Florence)

 

Prof. Harry Arthurs

See the presentation remarks given by Prof. Brian Langille (University of Toronto)