Part II of this article analyses how art. 8 of the Rome I Regulation actually works.The application of the lex loci laboris, of the principle of contractual freedom and of the requirement of worker protection reveals not only the formula of combining libertarian and non-libertarian approaches, but also the background idea that such approaches display in order to ensure the predictability of identifying the law applicable to cont...

The present research paper aims to evaluate the conceptual struggle between 2 (two) schools of thought – the libertarian school of thought, on the one hand, the welfare State school of thought, on the other hand – in light of the choice of law applicable to the individual employment contract. For the purposes of writing this paper, we have taken the liberty of initiating a journey along the quasi-federal system of the European Union, including...