skip to content
 

Email

fv237@cam.ac.uk

College Contact Details

Room: D Newnham Cottage

Profile Links

Assistant Professor and Fellow in Law, DoS (Law Tripos IB); Affiliated Lecturer

Law Degree (BA) (With Honours), LLM on Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Labour Law (With Honours) (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); LLM (Class I), PhD in Law (Cantab) (Yorke Prize; ETUC/ETUI Brian Bercusson Award runner-up)

Interests

Labour Law, EU Law, Constitutional theory & Constitutional Law

Current areas of focus: digital forms of collective organisation and action; the value of collective autonomy as inherent prerequisite of systemic democratisation; elements of 'populist constitutionalism' and the constitutional nature of the EU.

CV / Biography

Fotis Vergis is Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Gonville & Caius college, Cambridge.

He studied for his Law Degree and his first LLM (both With Honours) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and for his second LLM and PhD at the University of Cambridge. His PhD thesis (Collective Labour Rights after the Treaty of Lisbon as an element of the substantive constitutionalisation of EU law) was awarded the Yorke Prize and the runner-up ETUC/ETUI Bercusson Award.His PhD research was supported, inter alia, by Hughes Hall and by the Modern Law Review Scholarship. 

Outputs in recent years include work on collective labour law, migrant workers, and a co-edited publication on the multi-faceted inherent crisis of the EU that has manifested in recent years, with the euro crisis as its first symptom.

Prior to joining Gonille & Caius he was Lecturer in Law at The University of Manchester law school (SoSS/Law), teaching Employment Law and EU law. While there he was also the Course Director for Employment Law between 2017-2022 and the Programme Director for the LLB Law With Politics (2019-2022). Previously he had worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, supervising for various colleges (Constitutional Law, EU Law, and Labour Law), and, briefly, as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Labour Law). Before fully committing to academia he was a practising barrister in Greece, working predominantly on labour law.

His work in Manchester was recognised with the Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Programme of the Year Award (as Programme Director) by the UoM and the Faculty of Humanities. He was also part of the team that was awarded the 'Making a Difference' Award, for ‘The Justice Hub Covid-19 Virtual Vacation Scheme’, an initiative also nominated for the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2021. 

He is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), the Industrial Law Society (ILS), the Manchester Industrial Relations Society (MIRS) the Academic Network on European Social Charter and Social Rights (RACSE/ANESC). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Greek Labour Law Review (ΕΕργΔ) and on the Scientific Committee of the ‘Moving Labour Collective’ (MLC), a community of academics and researchers working on labour law & related studies open to trade unionists and activists.

Selected publications

 

Books

The Crisis behind the Crisis: The Eurocrisis as a multidimensional failure of the EU (with Eva Nanopoulos), 2019)

Co-Author/s:
Eva Nanopoulos
ISBN 13:
9781108598859
Published Jul 2019

Articles

"‘Work on demand’ contracts or ZHC from the backdoor? The new provisions of Art. 182Α Κ.Α.Ε.Κ. in light of Directive 2019/1152 (in Greek) " (2024) EErgD 83(7) 787-816

"Digitised Work and the Value of Collective Autonomy: an approach with reference to EU Labour Law " (2023) EErgD 82(6) 717-738

"Gig Work and Legal Characterisation: The UK paradigm and its usefulness (in Greek) " (EErgd) 80(9) 1025-1078

Book Chapters

"‘Hybrid action for a hybrid world: collective freedoms and the challenges of digital work fragmentation" in Julia Lopez Lopez (ed(s)), Remote Work and Labour Institutions), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

"Brexit and the Irony of British Influence on EU labour law theory and praxis", Liber Amicorum in honour of Prof.Deliyanni-Dimitrakou), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

"Collective Organisation, Bargaining, and Action in the World of Gig Work" in Christina Deligianni-Dimitrakou (ed(s)), Digitalisation at Work: Challenges and Prospects, 2023), pp. 129-166

"European dys-integration, popular disillusionment and Brexit: could “substantive constitutionalisation” help win back minds and hearts?" in Ann-Christine Hartzén, Eleni Karageorgiou and Andrea Iossa (ed(s)), Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe: Constitutional Tensions for EU Integration, 2022), pp. 136-157

Pages:
136-157
ISBN 13:
9781800885509
Published Feb 2022

"Back to the future: Rediscovering the role, value and scope of labour law and collective labour institutions in a changing world" in Alysia Blackham, Miriam Kullmann, Ania Zbyszweska (ed(s)), Theorising Labour Law in a Changing World, 2019)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-1-50992-155-3
Published Sep 2019

"The elephant in the room: a tale of crisis" (with Eva Nanopoulos) in Eva Nanopoulos, Fotis Vergis (ed(s)), The Crisis behind the Crisis: The Eurocrisis as a multidimensional failure of the EU, 2019), pp. 1-22

" The Inherently Undemocratic EU Democracy: Moving Beyond the ‘Democratic Deficit’ Debate" (with Eva Nanopoulos), The Crisis behind the Crisis: The Eurocrisis as a multidimensional failure of the EU, 2019), pp. 122-155

Pages:
122-155
ISBN 13:
9781108598859
Co-Author/s:
Eva Nanopoulos, Fotis Vergis
Published Jul 2019

"The European Fund for the Creation of Youth Employment vis-a-vis CFREU Solidarity rights: Relationship and potential impac" in Carlos Moreiro Gonzalez (ed(s)), The New Deal for Europe Revisited, 1970), pp. 59-105

Pages:
59-105
ISBN 13:
9788492656516

Book Reviews

‘Employment Law and Human Rights’ by Robin Allen QC , Rachel Crasnow QC, Anna Beale (eds) (2019) BJIL 57(3) 716

‘European Employment Law’, by Karl Riesenhuber (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2012) (2014) ELRev 39 (4) 591

Case Notes

‘Direct discrimination on expressing religious belief and Higgs v Farmor’s School: a crack in non-discrimination law, or an overdue embrace of European standards? (2025) CLJ

Published: Forthcoming

Blog Posts

Reports

Migrant Key Workers and Social Cohesion in Europe: A Comparative Field Study

Co-Author/s:
Flaminia Bartlini, Shana Cohen, Loukia-Maria Fratsea, Gerry Mitchell (Editor), Liran Morav (Co-editor), Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Mason Parker, Jorge San Vicente Feduchi, Fotis Vergis, Carmen Vizán, Arantxa Zaguirre Altuna
Reference Number:
9782930769646
Body / Institution:
FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies), TASC (Think Tank for Action and Social Change)
Published: Jan 2022