Back to the future of EU labour law? A review of Marc Rigaux, Jan Buelens and Amanda Latinne, from labour law to social competition law?

In the prologue to From Labour Law to Social Competition Law?,1 Marc Rigaux prudently begins by pointing to the dangers of expressing oneself on the future of labour law, which is in seemingly perpetual crisis and flux. Happily, the contributors are not cowed by the challenge of gazing into the future, and what follows is a wide-ranging exploration of a series of interrelated themes focusing on the legal, and extra-legal, processes and phenomena that shape the essential functions of labour law. The collection develops four themes, and aspects of each will be explored in this article