Dr Mauro Pucheta

Mauro is a Labour and Employment Lawyer, with a particular interest in the Global South. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham (2019), where he explored how regional trade blocs, specifically Mercosur and the EU, regulate labour relationships at the regional and international levels. During his PhD, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University (2016-2017). Before becoming an academic, he practiced employment law in Argentina (2007-2009 and 2013-2014).
Mauro joined Kent Law School in September 2022, having previously been a Lecturer at Kingston University London (2019-2022) and the University of Gloucestershire (2017-2019) where he lectured on Employment law, Company Law, EU Law and Commercial Law. Prior to that, he was a teaching assistant (Chargé de Travaux Dirigés) in EU Labour law at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne (2012). He was also a teaching assistant in Argentine and South American Labour Law at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (2007-2009).  

Mauro conducts research on employment law and labour law from a comparative and a Global South perspective, with a particular focus on Latin America. His three main research areas centre round:

Labour Rights and Human Rights

Mauro examines critically the new case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which, based on the Ius Constitutionale Commune – a Latin American approach of transformative constitutionalism, has decided to protect workers’ rights as human rights. He analyses how this new approach may strengthen labour rights in the region. He is also currently researching how this new case law may protect informal workers and vulnerable groups.

Just Transition and Workers’ Rights

Using the 2015 ILO guidelines for just transition as a starting point, Mauro’s research aims to analyse the conceptual dimension of just transition and the extent to which its current meaning may be suitable or not for Global South countries. Furthermore, Mauro studies how traditional Global North social dialogue mechanisms may not be sufficient to ensure a meaningful representation and participation of workers in the Global South, where the workforce largely participates in the informal economy.

International Labour Standards and Regional Trade Blocs

Drawing upon Latin American regional integration literature, Mauro’s research focuses on the use of trade blocs to protect workers' rights in a context of neoliberal globalisation and climate crisis. Mauro explores specifically the importance and the effectiveness of the Mercosur Socio-Labour Declaration as one of the few Global South instruments that has attempted to protect workers’ rights within regional trade blocs.

Undergraduate

• Company Law and Capitalism – LAWS5200
• Public Law 2 – LAWS5920
•  Contract Law – LAWS6500
• Labour Law - LAWS6240 AUT

Postgraduate  

• Labour Rights in a Global Economy - LAWS9220 SPR

Mauro is happy to supervise 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.
⦁ Platform Economy and Workers’ Rights. 

⦁ Member, Society of Legal Scholars (UK)
⦁ Member, Industrial Law Society (UK)
⦁ Member, SOBAL (Society of British and Argentine Lawyers).
⦁ External Examiner, LLB Programme at Roehampton University (UK).