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Adelle Blackett

Full Professor
Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law

Chancellor Day Hall
Room 31
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-5096 [Office]
adelle.blackett [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

Professor Adelle BlackettÌę

Website: Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory

Recent media appearance: "." CBC Ideas with Nahlah Ayed, 1 February 2021.

Biography

Adelle Blackett, F.R.S.C., Ad. E., is Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transnational Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV. She holds a B.A. in History from Queen’s University, civil law and common law degrees from Âé¶čAV, and an LL.M. and a doctorate in law from Columbia University.Ìę An elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has been awarded the Bora Laskin National Human Rights Fellowship & the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship and was a visiting professor at Cornell ILR School cross appointed at Cornell Law School, the Inaugural Chancellor Janice Fukakusa Racial Justice Scholar in Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University, a visiting professor at the Global College of Law at UC Louvain, a Centenary Visiting Fellow at SOAS London, the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, a Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney, and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member at the University of Toronto.ÌęÌę

Professor Blackett is widely published in the field of transnational labour law, with a focus on decolonial approaches. Her 2019 book manuscript entitledÌęEveryday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor LawÌę(Cornell University Press) garnered the Canadian Council on International Law’s (CCIL) 2020 Scholarly Book Award.ÌęÌę Her current SSHRC-funded research (Insight Grant) focuses on Slavery and the Law, and supports her general rapporteurship on contemporary forms of slavery for the International Academy of Comparative Law, in which she is an elected Associate Member.ÌęÌęShe is the founding director of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory.

Much of Professor Blackett’s research is at the interface of trade and labour standards. Most recently she contributed a white paper for an initiative on Remaking Trade for Sustainable Development led by Dan Esty, Jan Yves Remy and Joel Trachtman. She is on the roster of experts for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) Chapter 23 (Trade and Labour) and the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Annex 31-B Lists of Rapid Response mechanism, and is a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s Trade and Labour Advisory Committee.Ìę

An innovative pedagogue, she developed a course on Slavery and the Law alongside a program of invited guest lectures in other courses, taught a course on law and development with the African Development Bank, and led courses with guest speakers on transnational labour lawÌęcommemorating the ILO’s centenary in 2019 and featuringÌęairline labour lawÌęin 2023.Ìę She has received the 2020 Âé¶čAV Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Full Professor category), the 2019 Canadian Association of Law Teachers’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, and the 2023 Âé¶čAV Graduate Law Student Association’s Excellence in Supervision and Mentorship Award.

Professor Blackett has significant human rights and labour rights leadership experience internationally and in Canada.Ìę Internationally, this includes serving as the lead ILO expert in a treaty-making process on decent work for domestic workers, and preparing a draft Haitian labour code.Ìę In Canada, she was unanimously appointed by the National Assembly of QuĂ©bec to the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.Ìę She also chaired the federal Human Rights Experts Panel.Ìę She was appointed by the federal Minister of Labour to chair Canada’s new Employment Equity Act Review Task Force, whose report was made public in December 2023.ÌęÌę

Professor Blackett has played an active role in fostering equity in academia within and beyond Âé¶čAV.Ìę She chaired the Faculty of Law’s professorial recruitment committee for 5 consecutive years.Ìę She founded the Dr. Kenneth Melville Âé¶čAV Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, and was its first convener.Ìę She is the principal drafter of theÌęÌęand a member of its Inter-institutional Steering Committee.

Professor Blackett’s contributions have been recognized by the Barreau du QuĂ©bec’s Christine Tourigny Award of Merit and the status of Advocate Emeritus, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers’ Pathfinder Award. She has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Queen’s University, UniversitĂ© Catholique de Louvain, and Simon Fraser University.Ìę In June 2023, she was awarded the global Labour Law Research Network’s Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labour Law.

Education

  • JSD Columbia University, 2004
  • LLM Columbia University, 1998
  • BCL & LLB Âé¶čAV, 1994
  • UniversitĂ© Robert Schuman (Strasbourg III) Academic Exchange (CRÉPUQ), 1992-93
  • BA Queen's University, 1989

Career

  • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Social Sciences) (elected 2020)
  • Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transnational Labour Law and Development, 2016-Ìę
  • Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, Montreal, 2015-
  • William Dawson Scholar, 2007–2016
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, Montreal, 2005-2015
  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, Montreal, 2000-2005
  • Labour Law & Labour Relations Specialist, International Labour Organization, Geneva, 1994-95; 1998-2000
  • Associate in Law (Teaching Fellow), Columbia University, New York, 1996-98
  • Consultant on Corporate Social Responsability Issues, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York, 1997
  • Articling Student, Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish, Toronto, 1995-96
  • Human Rights Intern, Instituto latinoamericano de servicios juridicos alternativos (ILSA), Bogota, Summer 1994.
  • Student Clerk to the Hon. Jean-Louis Baudouin, Quebec Court of Appeal, Montreal, 1993-94

Areas of interest

Labour Law, Law and Development, Transnational Labour Law, Regulation of Domestic Work, Trade Regulation, Law of International Organizations, Legal History, and Critical Race Theory.

Publications

Books

  • Blackett, A., . (Cornell University Press, April 2019).

Edited volumes (books/journals)

  • Transnational Futures of International Labour Law, , Volume 159, No. 4, special issue guest edited by Adelle Blackett. September 2020.
  • Lara Khoury, Adelle Blackett & Lukas Vanhonnaeker, eds., (Springer - Ius Comparatum-Global Studies in Comparative Law series, 2020).
  • AJIL Unbound, Volume 113, December 2019, Transnational Futures of International Labor Law, Symposium guest edited by Adelle Blackett & Laurence R. Helfer. .
  • Blackett, A., guest editor, "" Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et SociĂ©tĂ©, 33, no. 2 (2018).
  • Blackett, A. & A. Trebilcock, guest eds., "Regulatory Innovation on Decent Work for Domestic Workers in the Light of International Labour Organization Convention No. 189." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34, no. 2 (2018).
  • Blackett, A. & A. Trebilcock, eds., (Elgar, septembre 2015).
  • Blackett A., Guest Editor, Special Issue on Labor law and development: Perspectives on labor regulation in Africa and the African diaspora, (2011) 32:1 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 303-491.
  • Blackett A., Guest Editor, Special Issue on Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers (2011) 23:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue femmes et droit 1-358.
  • Blackett A & LĂ©vesque C, Eds. (Routledge 2011).

Journal articles

  • Adelle Blackett, “Racial Capitalism and the Contemporary International Law on Slavery: Re-MemberingÌęHacienda Brasil Verde” (2022) 25 Journal of International Economic Law 334 – 347.
  • Adelle Blackett with Alice Duquesnoy, “” (2021) 67 UCLA Law Review 1504 – 1535.
  • Adelle Blackett, “” (2021) 43:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 947 – 962 (Read Lecture).
  • Adelle Blackett, “Introduction: Transnational Futures of International Labour Law,” (2020) 159:4 International Labour Review 455-462.
    _____, « Les perspectives transnationales du droit international du travail, » (2020) 159:4 Revue internationale du Travail 505-514.
    _____, “Futuros transnacionales del derecho internacional del trabajo. Introducción,” (2020) 139:4 Revista Internacional del Trabajo 497-506.
  • *Adelle Blackett, “On Social Regionalism in Transnational Labour Law,” (2020) 159:4 International Labour Review591-613.
    _____, « Place du régionalisme social dans le droit transnational du travail, » (2020) 159:4 Revue internationale du Travail 659-684.
    _____, “Regionalismo social y derecho transnacional del trabajo,” (2020) 139:4 Revista Internacional del Trabajo 651-676.
  • Adelle Blackett, “” [.pdf] (2019) 113 AJIL Unbound 390-395
  • Adelle Blackett & Laurence R. Helfer, “” [.pdf] (2019) 113 AJIL Unbound 385-389.
  • Adelle Blackett & Assata KonĂ©-SiluĂ©, “Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in CĂŽte d’Ivoire: Labour Administration and the Judiciary under a Generalist Labour Code,” (2019) 158:1 International Labour Review 37 – 61.
    _____, « Des approches innovantes pour assurer l’accĂšs des travailleurs domestiques au travail dĂ©cent en CĂŽte d’Ivoire : ce que l’administration du travail et le systĂšme judiciaire ont pu faire dans le cadre du rĂ©gime gĂ©nĂ©ral du Code du travail » (full translation of the original English version) (2019) 158 :1 Revue internationale du travail 39 – 65.
    _____, “Trabajo decente para los trabajadores domĂ©sticos en CĂŽte d'Ivoire. InspecciĂłn y actuaciones judiciales innovadoras en el marco del cĂłdigo general del trabajo” (full translation of the original English version) (2019) 138:1 Revista internacional del trabajo 39-66.
  • Blackett, A. "." Global Dialogue, Vol. 8, Issue 2. July 2018.
  • Blackett, A. & Tiemeni, T.G., "Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration". International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34, no. 2 (2018): 203–230.
  • Blackett, A. “’Follow the Drinking Gourd’: Our Road to teaching Critical Race Theory and Slavery and the Law, Contemplatively, at Âé¶čAV” (2017) 62:4 Revue de Droit de Âé¶čAV 1251
  • Medici, G. and A. Blackett, “” (2016) 31 Connecticut Journal of International Law 187-215
  • Blackett, A. “Decolonizing Labour Law: A Few Comments” in (2016) 92 Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 89-99.
  • Blackett, A. “Social Regionalism in Better Work Haiti” [.pdf] (2015) 31:2 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 163-185.
  • Blackett A., “The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011” (2012) 106:4 American Journal of International Law 778.
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  • Blackett A. "Beyond Standard Setting: A Study of ILO Technical Cooperation on Regional Labor Law Reform in West and Central Africa" (2011) 32 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 443-492.
  • Blackett A., "Introduction: Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers" (2011) 23 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 - 46.
  • Blackett A., "Introduction: RĂ©guler le travail dĂ©cent des travailleuses domestiques" (2011) 23 Revue femmes et droit 47 - 96 [full translation of the original English version].
  • Blackett A. “Mutual Promise: International Labour Law and B.C. Health Services” (2009) 48 Supreme Court Law Review 365 – 407
  • Blackett A, “Hacia el Regionalismo Social: el caso del CARICOM” (2007) 5 Revista latinoamericana de derecho social 15–46.
  • Blackett A, “Situated reflections on international labour law, capabilities, and decent work: The case of Centre MaraĂźcher EugĂšne Guinois,” Liber Amicorum in honour of Katia Boustany, (2007) hors sĂ©rie Revue quĂ©bĂ©coise de droit international 223-244.
  • Blackett A, Sheppard C. “Collective Bargaining and Equality: Making Connections.” Int’l Labour Rev. 2003; 142:419-457.
  • Blackett A, Sheppard C. "Conjugar la nĂ©gociaciĂłn colectiva y el fomento de la igualdad." (full translation of original English version) Revista internacional del trabajo 2003; 122:461-505.
  • Blackett A, Sheppard C. "NĂ©gociation collective et Ă©galitĂ© au travail." (full translation of original English version) Revue internationale du travail. 2003; 143:453-496.
  • Blackett A. “Mapping the Equilibrium Line: Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the Interpretive Universe of the World Trade Organization.” Sask. L. Rev. 2002; 65:369-392.
  • Blackett A. “Toward Social Regionalism in the Americas.” Comp. Labor L. & Pol. J. 2002; 23:901-965.
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  • Blackett A. “Global Governance, Legal Pluralism & the Decentered State: A Labor Law Critique of Codes of Corporate Conduct.” Indiana J. Glob. Legal Stud. 2001; 8:401-447.
  • Blackett A. “Mentoring the Other: Cultural Pluralist Approaches to Access to Justice.” Int’l J. Legal Prof. 2001; 8:275-290.
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  • Blackett A. "Whither Social Clause? Human Rights, Trade Theory and Treaty Interpretation.” Colum. Hm. Rts. L. Rev. 1999; 31:1-80.
  • Blackett A. “Globalization and Its Ambiguities: Implications for Law School Curricular Reform.” Colum. J. Transn’l L. 1998; 37:57-79.

Textbooks

  • The Labour Law Casebook Group, Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, Eighth Edition (Aurora, Ont.: Irwin Press, 2011) (commercial casebook, 978pp.).
  • The Labour Law Casebook Group. Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 7th Edition. (commercial casebook) Aurora, Ont.: Irwin Press. 2004; 1008pp.Ìę

Articles/chapters in books and monographs

  • Adelle Blackett, “The UN Cannot Rest on Past Laurels: The Time for Courageous Leadership on Anti-Black Racism is Now” in Matiangai Sirleaf, ed., Race and National Security (Oxford University Press, 2023) 229 - 247.
  • Adelle Blackett, “Learning from the Past for the Future of International Labour Law” in Brian Langille & Anne Trebilcock, Social Justice and the World of Work: Possible Global Futures (Hart Publishing, 2023) 35 - 42.
  • Adelle Blackett, “,” in Peer Zumbansen, ed., Oxford Handbook of Transnational Labor Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) 591 – 614.
  • Adelle Blackett, “Domestic Work: Transnational Regulation,” in Mariana Valverde, Eve Darian Smith, Kamari Clarke and Prabha Kotiswaran, eds., Routledge Handbook of Law and Society (Routledge, 2021) 119 – 123.
  • Adelle Blackett, « Elles tĂ©moignent de la dignitĂ© du travail et de l’absence de banalitĂ© de leur function, » in Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana & Dominique MĂ©da, eds., Le manifeste travail : dĂ©mocratiser, dĂ©marchandiser, dĂ©polluer (Paris : Le Seuil, 2020) 97 – 106.
    _____, “,” in Ferreras et al, organizadoras, O manifestó do trabalho: democratizar, desmercantilizar, remediar (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lumen Juris, 2021) 71 – 78. [full Portuguese-language translation of the original French-language text]
  • Adelle Blackett, “Emancipation in the Idea of Transnational Labour Law,” in Dionne Pohler, ed., Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment, LERA Research Volume (New York: ILR Press, 2020) 183-192.
  • Adelle Blackett, “Domestic Workers and Informality: Challenging Invisibility, Regulating Inclusion,” in Martha Chen & Françoise CarrĂ©, eds., The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies, 2020) 110 – 115.
  • Adelle Blackett, “” [.pdf] in Georges Politakis et al. eds., ILO 100: Law for Social Justice (Geneva: International Labour Organization, 2019), 463-483.
  • Adelle Blackett, “Se rĂ©approprier le dialogue social,” in Philippe Auvergnon et Chrysal Kenoukon, eds., Enjeux et rĂ©alitĂ©s du dialogue social dans les pays de l’espace OHADA: La part du droit 35 – 49 (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2018).
  • Adelle Blackett, “This is Hallowed Ground: International Labour Law and Canada at 150,” in Oonagh Fitzgerald, Valerie Hughes and Mark Jewett, eds., Reflections on Canada’s Past, Present and Future in International Law (Guelph: CIGI, 2018) (also on CIGI online).
  • Blackett, A. "." Global Dialogue, Vol. 8, Issue 2. July 2018.
  • Blackett, A. “A New Thing: Shall Ye Not Know It? On Living Metaphors in Transnational Labour Law,” in Simon Archer, Daniel Drache and Peer Zumbansen, eds., The Daunting Enterprise of the Law: Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs 286-297 (Âé¶čAV-Queen’s University Press, 2017).
  • Blackett, A. “L’autonomie collective, Ă©lĂ©ment clĂ© du travail dĂ©cent des travailleuses et travailleurs domestiques,” Dominic Roux, ed., L’autonomie collective en droit du travail: perspectives nationales et internationales: MĂ©langes en l’honneur du professeur Ă©mĂ©rite Pierre Verge 477-509 (Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’UniversitĂ© Laval, 2014).
  • “’The Space Between Us’: Migrant Domestic Workers as a Nexus between International Labour Standards and Trade Policy,” in Daniel Drache & Les Jacobs, eds., 259 – 273 (Cambridge : Cambridge U. Press, 2014).
  • Blackett A., “Development, the movement of persons and labour law: Reasonable labour market access and its decent work complement,” in Tonia Novitz & David Mangan, eds., The Role of Labour Standards in Development: Sustainable Theory in Practice 143 – 168 (Oxford: Oxford U. Press for the British Academy, 2012).
  • Blackett A., "Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law" in Guy Davidov & Brian Langille, eds., The Idea of Labour Law 420 - 436 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Blackett A. "The Paradox of OHADA's Transnational, Hard Law, Labour Harmonization Initiative," in Adelle Blackett & Christian LĂ©vesque, eds., Social Regionalism in the Global Economy 243-272(Routledge, 2011).
  • Blackett A. « Commerce international et travail : dĂ©finir le rĂŽle rĂ©glementaire de l’État dans la nouvelle Ă©conomie, » in Pierre Verge, rĂ©d. Droit international du travail : perspectives canadiennes 223-255 (Cowansville : Éditions Yvon Blais, 2010).
  • Blackett A. "Trade, Labour Law and Development: A Contextualization," in TeklĂš, T., Labour Law and Worker Protection in Developing Countries (Hart, 2010) 121.
  • Blackett A. & M. Choko, “Les effets de l’accrĂ©ditation,” (Fascicule 13) in Rapports individuels et collectifs du travail, Jurisclasseur QuĂ©bec, Lexis Nexis, 2009) 13/1 – 13/65.
  • Blackett A. “Human Rights at Work, Legal Indeterminacy, and the Black Community in Canada: Critical Reflections on Centre MaraĂźcher EugĂšne Guinois,” in David Divine, ed., Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada 365-372 (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).
  • Blackett A. “Promoting Domestic Workers’ Human Dignity through Specific Regulation.” In: Fauve-Chamoux A, ed. Domestic Work as a Factor of European Identity: Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th–21st Centuries. Bern: Peter Lang SA, Éditions scientifiques europĂ©ennes. 2005; pp. 211-237.
  • Blackett A. “Codes of Corporate Conduct and the Labour Regulatory State in Developing Countries.” In: Kirton JJ & Trebilcock MJ, eds. Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004; 121-133.
  • Blackett A. “Defining the Contemporary Role of the State: WTO Treaty Interpretation, Unilateralism and Linkages.” In: Carmody C, Iwasawa Y & Rhodes S, eds. Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: Conflict and Coherence. Washington, DC: ASIL. 2003; 289-308.
  • Blackett A. “Global Governance and Human Rights Advocacy: Self-Regulatory Initiatives as Emerging forms of Labour Regulation.” In: Campbell L et al, eds. International Inter/sections. Vancouver: UBC. 1998; 289-300.

Reviews

  • Blackett, A. “Slavery is not a Metaphor: Book Review of Annie Bunting & Joel Quirk, Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (University of British Columbia Press, 2018),” (2018) 66:4 American Journal of Comparative Law 927-935.
  • Blackett, A. “Global Justice in Transnational Labour Law: A Review of Yossi Dahan, Hannah Lerner & Faina Milman-Sivan, eds., Global Justice and International Labour Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2016 (2018)” 33:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Society/ Revue Canadienne droit et sociĂ©tĂ© 281-289
  • Blackett, A. Book Review, Darcy du Toit, ed., Exploited, Undervalued – and Essential: Domestic Workers and the Realisation of their Rights (Pretoria University Law Press, 2013) (2015) 49:3 Law and Society Review 801-804.
  • Blackett, A. “Beyond the ‘Rules of the Game’,” contribution to a Book Review Symposium: The Future of the International Labour Organization in the Global Economy, by Francis Maupain (Hart Publishing, 2013), 154:1 International Labour Review 73 – 78. (; ; ).
  • Blackett A., Book Review of Leah Vosko, Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and International Regulation of Precarious Employment (Oxford University Press, 2010) (2011) 150:3-4 International Labour Review 457-461.
  • Blackett A., Book Review of Jean-Claude Javillier & Bernard Gernigon, eds., Les normes internationales du travail : un patrimoine pour l’avenir: MĂ©langes en l’honneur de Nicolas Valticos (Geneva: ILO, 2004) 709pp., (2007) 101:2 American Journal of International Law 529-534.
  • Blackett A., Book Note on Marie-Ange Moreau's "Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation : Confrontations et mutations" (Dalloz, 2006) (2007) 52:1 Âé¶čAV Law Journal 203-206.
  • Blackett A. Book Review of Bob Hepple's Labour Laws and Global Trade (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005), 302pp., (2006) 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 573-582.
  • Blackett A. Review of Recension, (Jean Maurice Djossou: "L’Afrique, le GATT et l’OMC. Entre territoires douaniers et rĂ©gions commerciales." Sainte-Foy et Paris, Presses de l’UniversitĂ© Laval et L’Harmattan, 2000, 266 pp.) Âé¶čAV L. J. 2001; 46:1176-1177.

Conference proceedings

  • Adelle Blackett, “Women, Migration and the Care Economy: What Regulating Domestic Work Teaches Us about the Relationship between Trade and Labour Law,” in Pitman B. Potter & Heather Gibb (with Erika Cedillo) eds., Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes:Ìę Coordinating Compliance, Papers based on the Proceedings of the Conference: Coordinating Compliance between Gender Equality Rights and Trade held at the University of Ottawa on Dec. 2 2010, (Ottawa: North-South Institute & Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution, University of British Columbia, 2012) 29-43.
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  • Blackett A., Diller J., Helfer L., Langille B. & Leary V. "The Future of International Labor Law," (2008) American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting 389 - 402.

Research reports

  • Adelle Blackett & Assata KonĂ©-SiluĂ©, Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in CĂŽte d’IvoireÌę:Ìę Labour Administration and the Judiciary under a Generalist Labour Code, 30 pages, Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory Working Paper No. 6, March 2016. Available at www.mcgill.ca/lldrl/research#wps
  • International Labour Conference, Report IV(1), Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Law and Practice Report), Geneva, 2010.
  • Blackett A. & Tsikata D., “Vulnerable Workers”, in FrĂ©dĂ©ric MĂ©gret & Florian Hoffman, “Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups" in Swiss Initiative to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR Protecting Dignity: An Agenda for Human Right, June 2009.
  • Blackett A. “Trade Liberalization, Labour Law and Development: A Contextualization,” International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva, IILS Discussion Paper No. 179, 2007) 30pp.
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  • Blackett A, Sheppard C. “The Links Between Collective Bargaining and Equality.” ILO Declaration Working Paper No. 10. Geneva: ILO. 2002; 64 pp.
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  • Blackett A. “Making domestic work visible: The case for specific regulation.” Labour Law and Labour Relations Programme Working Paper No. 2. Geneva: ILO. 1998; 29pp.
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In the media

  • by David Thurton CBC, 6 March 2024.
  • "." Ideas, with Nahlah Ayed, CBC, 1 February 2021.
  • Entrevue : Le manifeste travail. Plus on est de fous, plus on lit, Radio Canada, 2 December 2020
  • "." Yale Law School News, 13 November 2020.
  • "", Just Security, Reiss Center on Law and Security, 22 July 2020.
  • "." The Toronto Star, 2 September 2019.
  • "". Montreal Community Contact, April 2018.
  • "". Montreal Gazette, April 2018.
  • (video). International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) talk with Adelle Blackett, Valerie Hughes, Alvaro Santos, Risa Schwartz.
  • (video). Âé¶čAV, March 2017.
  • . Wiego Podcast, August 2016.
  • (video). 10th Anniversary Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, with Adelle Blackett and François CrĂ©peau (Fall 2015)
  • (video). Black History Month, February 2015.
  • . Focus online, November 2012.
  • . Âé¶čAV Reporter, May 2010.
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