Marie-Cécile Escande-Varniol
Marie-Cécile ESCANDE-VARNIOL is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon. She is a member of research center CERCRID. She has been Vice-director of the Labour Law Instititute of Lyon (2018-2022). Author of numerous articles and books chapters, particularly in the field of international and European social law. She has participated in various research projects in this field, funded by the European Commission or other international bodies. She is a member of several research networks: LLRN, INLACRIS, COGENS, DIGILARE, GEFACT, and the Panama Group (social dialogue, tripartism and conflict resolution). For more than ten years, her research focuses on digital platforms workers. She has participated in numerous national and international studies on this topic.
Sylvaine Laulom
Sylvaine Laulom is since March 2019 Advocate General in extraordinary service at the Court of Cassation (social chamber). She was previously Professor of Private Law at the University Lumière Lyon 2 where she directed, from 2013 to 2018, the Institute of Labour Studies of Lyon. She is specialised in European and international social law and comparative labour law and has published several books and articles on these topics, including on the issue of discrimination. She has directed several European research projects (Collective Bargaining Developments in times of crisis, Kluwers, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, n°99, 2d ed. 2025; Which Securities for workers in times of crisis?, European Labour Law Journal n°3-4, special issue, 2014).
Nicolas Moizard
Nicolas Moizard is full professor at the Institut du travail (University of Strasbourg, France), a national institution specialising in trade union training. He is director of the House of Social and Human Sciences of Alsace (MISHA). He is specialised in French and European employment law.
Matthieu Vicente
Matthieu Vicente is a lecturer in labour law at the University of Montpellier-Paul Valéry. In 2022, he defended a doctoral thesis on the collective rights of platform workers at the University of Strasbourg. His research focuses on trade union freedom and the status of precarious workers, with a comparative perspective and a focus on international and European law.