Adelle Blackett is a Full Professor at the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. She founded and directs the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory. Professor Blackett has been an expert of the International Labour Organization (ILO) project on decent work for domestic workers (2008-2011) leading to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 in a labour law reform process in Haiti (2011-2014). In 2016, she received a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship for her project on transnational futures of international labour law, for which she organized an eponymous course in winter 2019.
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, and her 2019 book manuscript entitled Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law garnered the Canadian Council on International Law’s 2020 Scholarly Book Award.
She is currently the general rapporteur for the International Academy of Comparative Law in a global study on slavery and the law. She has served for seven years as a Quebec human rights commissioner and is currently chair of the human rights experts panel for the Canadian Court Challenges Program. She is also appointed to the roster of experts on trade and labour for both the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. She has received a number of prestigious awards and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
