The world has changed significantly in the time passed since the last ISLSSL World Congress held in Turin in 2018. Covid, wars and political crises suffered by different countries had a strong impact on the world of work. Digitalization and globalization are the factors which still reshape regulations and challenge the social justice all over the world. The World Congress in Rome has set the objective to discuss those trends within five broad topics covering both individual and collective labour and the social security issues. In this volume we have collected the papers of the keynote speakers of the Congress considering different aspects of the modern quest for labour rights and social justice.

Marco Mocella is a Full Professor of Labour Law at Mercatorum University, Director of the Law Department, and Rector's Delegate for the Internationalization. He is a member of the Editorial board of the journal "Il Diritto del Mercato del Lavoro", and other Italian and foreign scientific journals. He is a winner of numerous European and national projects, including Module Erasmus+ Programme GEDI - Gender Equality and Elimination of Discrimination and two projects founded by the Italian Ministry of Universities. He is the author of 4 books, and more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals in Spanish, English, Portugues, and Italian.

Elena Sychenko is an associate professor at Saint Petersburg State University. She is teaching International labour law and Comparative law at Saint Petersburg University and ESG Compliance at the University of Bologna. She is also teaching at PhD program "Sustainability and ESG Agenda", Mercatorum University. In 2024 she won the Fulbright scholarship for the research at Wharton Business School, Upenn. In 2019 she received a Jean Monnet Module to teach European labour law. She was twice an ILO external consultant: in the project "Country study on preventing and addressing violence and harassment through OSH framework in El Salvador" and in the project "Situation and Gap Analysis Report on Forced Labour Protocol" in Pakistan.