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Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is widely published and renowned for centering emancipatory approaches to labour law, including in the interface with trade law and slavery and the law. Her 2019 book entitled Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law (Cornell University Press) garnered the Canadian Council on International Law’s 2020 Scholarly Book Award. Professor Blackett holds a BA in history from Queen’s University, common law and civil law degrees from McGill University, and an LL.M. and doctorate in law from Columbia University. She is the founding director of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, the principal architect of the International Labour Organization’s 2011 Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189) and Recommendation (No. 201), the lead expert on labour law reform in Haiti, the principal drafter of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education, and the Chair of the Canadian federal Employment Equity Act Review Task Force whose report was publicly released in December 2023. Professor Blackett is the recipient of multiple honorary doctorates in law, teaching excellence and graduate supervision awards, the Christine Tourigny Award of Merit & Advocate Emeritus status from the Barreau du Québec, and the international Labour Law Research Network’s Bob Hepple Lifetime Achievement Award in Labour Law.
