Aristea Koukiadaki is Lecturer in Employment Law at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the empirical study of law and on applied legal and policy analysis, with particular reference to labour market regulation, corporate governance and EU social policy. It has been theoretically driven by an interest in the application of social systems theory and the capability approach to the study of supranational regulation and its relationship with national legal and economic systems and has been funded by a number of organisations, including the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the Leverhulme Trust. She is research associate at the Centre for Business Research (University of Cambridge) and a member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).