Adelle Blackett

Faculty of Law

Courses

CMPL 521 Trade Regulation
LEEL 369 Labour Law
LEEL 470 Employment Law

Office: New Chancellor Day Hall, room 508.

Biography

Professor Blackett is a William Dawson Scholar with expertise in labour law, trade law, and international development. She is also a Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commissioner. A former official of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, she continues to serve as an expert on international standard setting and on labour law reform. Prof. Blackett has held short visiting appointments at the Australian National University and the African Development Bank. She holds a doctorate in law from Columbia University where she taught as an Associate in Law for two years.

Professor Blackett is a research coordinator for the Inter-university Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), the convener of the Labour Law and Development Research Network (LLDRN) and the director of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation - funded Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL). She is the recipient of the 2010-11 Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research. Her current research projects involve rethinking the relationship between trade and labour law from a distributive justice perspective; examining the role of international persuasion in labour law reform in West Africa; and exploring the regulation of citizenship at work for domestic workers.

Education

J.S.D. Columbia University, 2004

LL.M. Columbia University, 1998

B.C.L. & LL.B. McGill University, 1994

Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg III) Academic Exchange (CRÉPUQ), 1992-93

B.A. Queen's University, 1989

Employment

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, 2005-present

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 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, Trade Regulation, International Development Law, Law of International Organizations, and Critical Race Theory.