Dr Mauro Pucheta

Mauro is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, where he teaches Labour Law and Company Law. He is a comparative and international labour law researcher, with particular interests in the Global South.

Mauro regularly delivers teaching as a guest lecturer at leading international institutions. He teaches EU Employment Law in the LLM programmes in Labour Law at Université Paris Nanterre and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He also contributes to the Master on Industrial and Employment Relations at the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO), where he delivers specialised teaching on trade blocs and labour regulations.

Alongside his academic career, Mauro has professional experience as an employment lawyer in Argentina, where he advised on individual and collective labour relations and workplace regulation. He has also undertaken consultancy work on labour market regulation, contributing to policy-oriented research and analysis on employment standards, regulatory compliance, and labour governance in comparative and international contexts.

Prior to joining the University of Kent, Mauro was a Lecturer at Kingston University London and the University of Gloucestershire, where he taught EU Law, Employment Law, and Commercial Law. He has also held teaching assistant positions in EU Labour Law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and in Argentine Labour Law at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

Mauro’s research critically examines employment and labour law through a comparative lens grounded in Global South perspectives, with a particular focus on Latin America. His work challenges Global North–centric legal frameworks by analysing how labour law, human rights, and political economy operate within contexts marked by inequality, informality, and structural vulnerability. 

Drawing on comparative and international methodologies, his scholarship engages in particular with the Inter-American System of Human Rights as a site for the recognition and enforcement of workers’ rights, and with the intersection between the climate crisis and labour law, especially through the lens of just transition and the protection of workers in the Global South.

Research Areas

·       Labour Rights and Human Rights within the Inter-American System of Human Rights

·       Just Transition, Social Dialogue, and Workers’ Rights in the Context of the Climate Crisis

·       Workers’ Rights and Right-Wing Populism

·       Regional Economic Integration and Labour Standards

Undergraduate

·      Labour Law - LAWS6121

·      Company Law and Capitalism – LAWS6690

·      Contract Law – LAWS4001

Postgraduate  

·      Labour Rights in a Global Economy - LAWS9220 

Mauro welcomes proposals from prospective PhD candidates and is particularly interested in supervising innovative and critically oriented research in the following areas:

·      Comparative Labour and Employment Law

·      Regional Integration, Regional Trade Blocs, and Law

·      Human Rights and Labour Rights

·      Climate Change, Just Transition, and Workers’ Rights

⦁         Member, Society of Legal Scholars (UK)

⦁         Member, Industrial Law Society (UK)

⦁         Member and Director, SOBAL (Society of British and Argentine Lawyers).

⦁         External Examiner, LLB and LLM Programme at Roehampton University (UK).