Dr. Adelle Blackett
Full Professor. Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, McGill University
Labour Law, Law and Development, Transnational Labour Law, Regulation of Domestic Work, Trade Regulation, Law of International Organizations, Legal History, and Critical Race Theory.
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Adelle Blackett: Transnational Futures of International Labor Law
Professor Adelle Blackett, 2016 Trudeau Fellow, describes her research project “Canadian Contributions to Social Justice in the World of Work: Transnational Futures of International Labor Law” http://bit.ly/2czkgDG
2016 Trudeau Fellow Professor Adelle Blackett discusses her research project, “Canadian Contribution to Social Justice in the World of Work: Transnational Future of International Labor Law” http://bit.ly/2d3Wala
Project objectives: 1. To celebrate the role that the International Labor Organization (ILO) has played in its first century, fostering social justice in the world of work, while exploring the challenges of the changing paradigm of work. 2. To move beyond the anecdotal, to document and assess the changing, expansive use of international labor law, transnationally (legal mapping). 3. To convene leading stakeholders in Canada and abroad, from within the ILO and beyond, to formulate recommendations on the basis of the legal mapping of transnational futures of international law. Project objectives: 1. Mark the centenary of the International Labor Organization (ILO) by describing the role the organization has played in advancing social justice in the world of work and by studying the challenges related to Paradigm shift. 2. Go beyond the inventory, in order to document and assess the changes and the growing use of international labor law, at the transnational level (mapping of the law). 3. Invite key officials in Canada and elsewhere, whether members of the ILO or not, to formulate recommendations based on a mapping of the transnational future of international law.
Researcher Spotlight - Professor Adelle Blackett
Highlighting 2020 Royal Society of Canada Fellow, Adelle Blackett, Full Professor, Faculty of Law.
Facing Race: Adelle Blackett on racial discrimination in the hiring process
Human Rights Workshop: Adelle Blackett Reflects on Protecting Essential Workers
ILO celebrates 100 years of fighting for fair labour practices
Prof. Adelle Blackett: “Good teaching is hard work…If this is a challenge, it is one I am happy to have the opportunity to meet.”
Biography
Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, where she teaches and researches in the areas of labour and employment law, trade regulation, law and development, critical race theory and slavery and the law. Blackett holds a B.A. in History from Queen’s University, civil law and common law degrees from McGill, and an LL.M. and a doctorate in law from Columbia University. She is the recipient of several prestigious research fellowships, notably the Social Science and Humanities Research Council’s Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research in 2010, and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship in 2016 on transnational futures of international labour law. A former official of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Blackett has been an ILO expert on international standard setting on decent work for domestic workers (2008-2011) leading to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201; and in a labour law reform process in Haiti (2011-2014). In 2009, she was unanimously appointed by the National Assembly of Quebec to the province’s Human rights and youth rights Commission, where she served as a commissioner for seven years. A member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Barreau du Québec, she was awarded the latter’s Christine Tourigny Award of Merit and the status of advocate emeritus in 2014, in recognition of her social commitment and her contributions to the advancement of women. She received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. In 2015, the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers awarded her its Pathfinder Award for her significant contributions to the legal community and the community at large. Widely published in English, French and Spanish in the emerging field of transnational labour law, in 2015, she co-edited a Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law. Her book manuscript entitled Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law is forthcoming in Spring 2019 with Cornell University Press.