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Jeff Vogt is a Visiting Fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in the 2026-27 academic year. He is Director of the Rule of Law Department at the Solidarity Center in Washington, D.C., and co-founder and Chair of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network, a global association uniting more than 1,500 workers’ rights lawyers from over 100 countries to defend and advance the rights of workers and their organizations through technical support, legislation, litigation and campaigns at national, regional and international levels. 

Since 2022, Jeff has served as the United States Worker Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and as a member of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association, in which capacity he participates in the supervision of international labour standards and the examination of complaints concerning freedom of association brought against ILO Member States. He advised the legal team of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in the proceedings that led to the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion confirming that the right to strike is protected under ILO Convention No. 87. 

Before joining the Solidarity Center in 2017, Jeff was Legal Director of the ITUC in Brussels from 2011 to 2017. He founded and led the ITUC’s legal department and directed its legal work before the ILO and the broader UN system, and supported trade unions around the world on labor rights defense and promotion. From 2006 to 2011, Jeffrey was Deputy Director of the International Department at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), having previously served as the federation’s global economic policy specialist. Earlier in his career, he was Assistant General Counsel at the International Labor Rights Forum (now Global Labor Justice) and an associate at union-side labor law firms in Washington, D.C. and Syracuse, New York, representing labor unions and individual employees in federal court and in arbitration. 

Jeffrey’s scholarship centers on international and comparative labor law and the institutions through which it is supervised and enforced. He is co-editor and contributing author of two volumes on the right to strike — The Right to Strike in International Law (Hart 2020) and The Right to Strike Reimagined (Hart 2026). A second strand of his research examines the protection of labor rights in global supply chains and in trade and investment law. Additional current research interests include the intersection of labor law and climate change. 

Jeffrey earned his J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School and studied international law at the University of Paris I–Sorbonne.