Strike Ballots, Democracy, and Law

Breen Creighton is an Honorary Professor at RMIT University and a consultant with one of Australia's leading law firms. He has had many years of experience as a legal practitioner, and has held academic positions at universities in Australia and the UK. He has also worked for the ACTU, ILO, and Commonwealth Government. He has published extensively in the fields of labour law, work health and safety, equal opportunity, and public law. Catrina Denvir is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash Business School, Monash University. Catrina's research engages issues at the intersection of technological innovation, data science, law, and social justice. She has expertise in a broad range of qualitative, quantitative, and computational research methods. Richard Johnstone is a professor in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. His academic interests are in labour law, regulatory theory, and empirical legal research. Shae McCrystal is Professor of Labour Law at the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. Shae is an internationally recognized expert on the right to strike and the intersection of labour law and competition law. Among other works, she is the author of The Right to Strike in Australia, and co-author and co-editor of books exploring the regulation of labour at the intersection of labour law and commercial law. Alice Orchiston is a Lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales. Her research is socio-legal and interdisciplinary, focusing on issues connected with labour and employment, the regulation of commercial sexual activity, and gender-based violence. Dr Orchiston has specific expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods research, online research, and researching vulnerable populations.