Virginia Mantouvalou is Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at University College London. She has received several awards for her research, including a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a UCL Provost Award for Public Engagement for her research collaboration with the NGO Kalayaan (working on the rights of domestic workers). She is Articles Co-Editor of the Modern Law Review, a member of the editorial board of the Stanford Studies in Human Rights, Co-Editor of the UK Labour Law Blog, and Joint Editor of Current Legal Problems. She has held visiting positions at Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington DC and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.