Sergio Gamonal C.

I am Professor of Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile, where I have taught since 1992 and serve as Academic Director of the Master’s in Labour Law and Social Security. I hold a law degree (LL.B.) from the Universidad de Chile and am admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Chile. From 1991 to 2005 I worked as legal advisor to the Chilean Senate.

My work deals with the foundations of labour law: its principles, human dignity, workers’ fundamental rights at the workplace, freedom of association, collective bargaining and the right to strike, and the relationship between labour law, economics and the narratives used to justify it. I have published 18 books, among them Principled Labor Law (Oxford University Press, 2019, with César F. Rosado Marzán), which received the Best Book Prize of the Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico, and more than one hundred articles and chapters in Chile, Latin America, Europe and the United States.

I serve on the steering committee of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) and on the Latin American Scientific Committee of CIELO Laboral, and I have been a visiting scholar at the universities of Bristol, Cagliari and Nantes.

This site gathers everything I have written and, whenever possible, the full open-access text.