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The "Swiss section of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law" is an association in the sense of articles 60 ff of the Swiss Civil Code. It is based in Basel and represents Switzerland in the „International Society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL)“.
The ISLSSL was founded in Brussels in June 1958 as the result of a merger between the International Society for Social Law and the International Congresses of Labour Law. The Society is established for the purposes of studying labour and social security law at the national as well as international level, and promoting the exchange of ideas and information from a comparative perspective, and encouraging the closest possible collaboration among academics, lawyers, and other experts within the fields of labour and social security law. The activities of the Society include the promotion of the study of labour and social security law amongst young academics and lawyers, and support for international comparative schools, seminars and other meetings in those fields. The aims of the Society are of a purely scientific character, independent of all considerations of a political, philosophical or religious nature.
The Swiss section of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law was accepted as the 56th member of the ISLSSL. Among other members are Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, and Japan.
Our Board member Prof. Jean-Michel Servais is President of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law from September 2024. He was elected for the term of office 2024 - 2027. Congratulations.
On 8 September 2025, at the 7th General Assembly of the Swiss Section of the ISLSSL in St. Gallen, Prof. Kurt Pärli handed over the presidency to Dr. iur. Sylvie Pétremand, after ten years in office. Prof. Anne-Sylvie Dupont was elected as the new vice president. The Assembly expressed its sincere gratitude to Prof. Pärli for his many years of service and welcomed his decision to remain a member of the Executive Board. The Assembly wished every success to the new president and vice president.
For more information about the ISLSSL: www.islssl.org.
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The Pôle Berenstein-Institut is pleased to invite you to register free of charge for the conference it is organising on working conditions in the domestic work sector.
The programme and registration form (registration deadline: 10 November) are available here.
Open to everyone, the conference will take place on the afternoon of 17 November 2026 at the University of Geneva’s Campus Biotech.
The event will conclude in the early evening with a lecture by Adelle Blackett, Professor at McGill University in Montreal, followed by a panel discussion.
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We warmly invite you to the International Seminar “Labour and Social Law: National Insights and Comparative Perspectives”, which will take place on 19–20 November 2026.
The seminar will address current research questions at the intersection of national, comparative, and transnational labour and social security law. The four participating universities – Basel, Ghent, Ljubljana and Aix-en-Provence – bring together leading scholars and doctoral researchers whose work systematically examines the legal, economic, and socio-political implications of different regulatory frameworks across Europe.
Take a look at the programme and join us! Participation is possible both in person and online. For organisational purposes, we kindly ask persons interested in participation to register via email to: office-paerli-ius@unibas.ch no later than 13 November 2026 (free of charge). Participants attending online will receive the access details via email one day before the event.
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The 8. General Assembly of the Swiss Section of the ISLSSL will take place on 24 June 2026 in room ANT-2055 (Anthropole Building) at the University of Lausanne. This will be followed in the afternoon by a scientific meeting ‘dix ans déjà!’ in Auditorium SYN-1216 (Synathlon Building).
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