CALL FOR PAPERS

The ALLA Conference will provide a national forum for rigorous scholarly engagement with these developments. The conference seeks to advance critical analysis of the evolving regulatory landscape and to interrogate the adequacy, coherence and future trajectory of labour law frameworks.

Submissions Invited

Abstracts are invited that address one of the specific issues below:

• Artificial intelligence, automation and digital labour platforms
• Regulation of gig and non-standard work
• Wage theft, compliance and enforcement mechanisms
• Work health and safety reform
• Equality, discrimination and pay equity
• Collective bargaining and industrial regulation
• Flexible work, remote work and the right to disconnect
• Institutional design, regulatory governance and enforcement models
• Labour law theory, methodology and empirical research
• Comparative and international perspectives

Doctrinal, analytical, empirical, theoretical, critical and interdisciplinary contributions are welcomed.

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts must not exceed 250 words
• Submissions must be made via the official online submission form (email submissions will not be accepted)
• Deadline: Monday 8 June 2026

Notifications will be issued in mid-July 2026.

Full papers will be due by 9 October 2026.

Accepted presenters will be required to submit a full paper, register for the conference and present in person in Newcastle.