LUBS3915
Module Reading List
Liz Oliver
E.A.Oliver@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Core textbook
Emir A Selwyn's law of employment 21/e Oxford University Press 2020
This text is available online. Please use the link above to access the online version.
Selwyn's law of employment is an authoritative and comprehensive reference text covering all of the course topics. You will find it a very valuable resource in the preparation of your coursework so it is recommended that you purchase a copy of this book. The audience for this text is students and practitioners so it works well for a third year undergraduate module. Students should refer to the publisher's online resource centre for updates that become available throughout the year. Selwyn's law of employment can be a challenging text and should be read in conjunction with the course materials. Students who struggle with this text to begin with are advised to refer to the brief / revision texts recommended below along-side their reading of Selwyn. These user-friendly, brief guides do not go into sufficient depth to support a full analysis of your class and coursework questions but they do provide a useful overview of the legal framework and can help to prevent students new to law from feeling 'lost' in the detail.
Primary legal materials
Statutes
Kidner R (Ed) Blackstone's statutes on employment law 2021-2022 ISBN: 9780198818472 (pbk.) : £14.99 31/e Oxford University Press 2020
You will need to become familiar with looking up and reading legal statutes (there will be a workshop on this). You will regularly refer to these in your seminars. Please buy a copy of the 2020-21 statute book.
Cases
You will be expected to look up, read and appropriately cite cases (there will be a workshop on cases). The law reports that contain most of the cases cited on this course are the Industrial Relations Law Reports. (IRLR). IRLR is available electronically through Lexis Library
The main databases for law reports are Lexis Library and Westlaw UK. You can use these to access other cases and a wide range of commentary on legal sources.
Engaging with legal debates
Throughout the course you will be directed to reading to supplement the course materials and connect you to legal debates.
Practitioner literature
You may be asked to engage with practitioner oriented literature to get a feel for how employment law is interpreted and implemented by legal professionals or within a business context.
This journal reports on key developments in employment law and is targeted at legal professionals. It can be accessed via the Westlaw legal database. Use this link to access Westlaw and log in with your university usename and password. Select "journals" from the menu accross the top and then click "publications" you will find a list of all the database publications in alphabetical order, click "I" and then scroll down to 'IDS Employment Law Brief'. You can then browse issues or search using keywords.
This journal has a regular section 'Employment Law Brief' that is written by a barrister and provides a brief update on key cases and other legal developments in the area of employment law. You can access the journal via Lexis Library using the link above. It will take you straight to the source, you can search or browse from there.
CIPD People Management Magazine
This journal is aimed a Human Resource Management professionals and regularly has coverage of key cases or legal developments from an HR perspective. You can access the journal via EBSCOhost Business Source Premier.
Academic literature
This journal contains scholarly articles by leading thinkers covering British employment law and indistrial relations.
Supplementary reading
Cabrelli, D Employment law in context: Text and Materials Oxford University Press 2018
A comprehensive and critical text offering a range of insights on the major topics of employment law. A good source of further references, so a useful starting point for your own research.
Collins H, Ewing K D and McColgan A Labour Law 2/e Cambridge University Press 2019
A critical text with a thorough and authoritative discussion of employment law in context and an excellent source of further references.
Willey B Employment law in context : an introduction for HR professionals 4/e Pearson 2012
'Employment law in context' is recommended as supplementary reading particularly for business or social science students (not just those studying HR) who want to locate their technical knowledge within a broader social and economic context. It is very well written and structured with some interesting 'real life' case studies and thought provoking questions with notes on the answers. However it is now getting quite old so please refer to lecture materials to ensure your knowledge of the law is up to date.
Deakin S F and Morris G S Labour law. 6/e Hart 2012
'Labour law' by Deakin and Morris is recommended for those students who have a strong grasp of the subject matter and are keen to understand more about the theoretical and historical development of employment law. It is a fascinating and detailed text that goes beyond the requirements of this module (in fact it is frequently cited as an authoritative source of commentary on employment law in cases). As above, this text is now getting quite old so please refer to lecture materials to ensure your knowledge of the law is up to date.
Lewis D Sargeant M and Schwab M Employment law : the essentials. 14/e CIPD 2017
'Employment law the essentials' is a user-friendly if at times superficial text. Students who struggle to comprehend 'Selwyn's Law of Employment' might consider looking at this first. The content of this text alone however isn't sufficiently rigorous to support your coursework preparation.
Legal dictionary
Martin and Law (Eds) A dictionary of law. 9/e Oxford University Press 2018
Lots of terms that will be used throughout this module have a specific legal meaning (for example the word 'employee' has a specific legal definition). A legal dictionary is a useful reference point to identify these specific meanings and might be particularly useful for international students.
Brief/revision texts
Lewis D and Sargeant M Employment law 2/e Oxford University Press 2011
Benny R Jefferson M and Sargent M Employment law, 2012 and 2013 5/e Oxford University Press 2012. There is a new edition of this book Benny R Jefferson M and Sargent M Questions and answers employment law 2014-15 law revision and study guide 6/e Oxford University Press 2014
Other areas of law
MacIntyre E Business law 9/e Pearson 2018
Elliott and Quinn English legal system 18/e Pearson 2017
Elliott C and Quinn F Contract law. 11/e Longman 2017
Cooke J The law of tort 13/e Pearson 2017
Online Course Readings
Wadham, J, (2010) Extract. FROM: Wadham, J, Blackstone's guide to the Equality Act 2010. pp.5-11, 1-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Finch, Emily, (2009) Chapter 14: 'Answering problem questions'. FROM: Finch, Emily, Legal skills. pp.331-353. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Anonymous, (2011) 'Is the two-year qualifying period right? ' . FROM: IDS brief... v.936. pp.2. London: Incomes Data Services. Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
This list was last updated on 20/09/2021