The paper deals with the little attention paid by labour law scholars to the issue of University teaching. The author tries to explain the main reasons (e.g. the transformation of labour law scholarship's profession and composition, the social contest, recent Governmental policies on research and teaching evaluation) which, instead, would recall the labour law professors to increase their effort in order to improve instruments as well as results of their teaching, while still holding the freedom of research and teaching guaranteed by art. 33 of the Italian Constitution