Former Dean of the Faculty of Law, David Lantarón carries out teaching and research work at the Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain), as a full professor of labor law and social security. He obtained his doctorate in 2002 with an award-winning thesis on the non-judicial solution of labor disputes. He was also awarded the Extraordinary Degree in Law award as well as the fifth “Alfredo Gorostegui Corpas Memorial” award for law students.

David Lantarón is the head of the “Labour Law and Social Protection” research group at the University of Cantabria. He has continuously participated in several research projects on a competitive basis at the national level, in which he has investigated several questions. At the European level, he collaborated within the framework of the Jean Monnet programme. He has also published more than 190 articles including 7 monographs on non-judicial conflict resolution (2003); Arbitration on Union Election Procedures (1997, three authors); public health services (2007); prevention of occupational hazards in public administration (2007); employers’ agents in sectoral collective bargaining (2012); decent work and the international protection of labor rights (2019); and working time (2020, multiple authors). A new book, focusing on employment policies, remote work and digital rights, is due to be published in June 2022.

Assistant Professor in Labour Law and Social Security at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She has been Postdoctoral Researcher in the Area of ​​Labour Law and Social Security at the University of Alcalá (March 2019-February 2021), with a contract funded within the framework of the Research Talent Attraction Program for Community of Madrid Research Groups, and Senior Researcher at Fondazione ADAPT (Italy) (November 2017-February 2019). She holds a PhD in Labour Law from the University of Bergamo (Italy) (2018), with a thesis about the impact of chronic diseases on the labour market from a legal perspective, for which she obtained a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research of 3 years duration. She is also a member of the Technical Executive Committee of the CIELO Labour Community (2015-present) and of the Cantabria Prevention Chair (2022-present).

Professor of Labour Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School (São Paulo, Brazil). Senior researcher at the Center for Education and Research in Innovation and Associate Researcher at FGVCidades (Fundação Getúlio Vargas). She was an external consultant for the International Labor Organization. She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Labour and Social Security Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. She was a postdoctoral internship at the University of São Paulo, funded by Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She has experience in the field of Labour Law, Occupational Health and Safety, International Labor Law and Empirical Legal Studies.

Peter Andersson is Juris Doctor and works as senior lecturer of private law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is specialized in occupational health and safety law. Covering topics such as psychosocial risks, proportionality and risk assessments he has published two books and several articles in Swedish and international scientific journals.