Adelle Blackett

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, McGill University. She 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. An elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has been named 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 has received the Bora Laskin National Human Rights Fellowship & the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. Professor Blackett is widely published in the field of transnational labour law, with a focus on decolonial approaches. Professor Blackett has significant human rights and labour rights leadership experience internationally and in Canada. 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.