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Critical Contemporary Slavery and the Law panel at the LSA Global Meeting

13 Jul 2022

During the Law & Society Association’s annual meeting, dedicated to the theme ‘Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy’, Professor Adelle Blackett chaired a panel foregrounding the upcoming IACL General Report on “Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Causes and Consequencesâ€. The panel was given life by the brilliant contributions of seven special national reporteurs, that is:

  • Discontinuities between historic slavery and ‘modern slavery’ in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Contending with the past, preparing for the future’ by Professor Jason Haynes
  • Regulating unfree labour and slavery in the Swedish/nordic model for labour relations: Historicizing the role of human rights and criminal law in relation to autonomous labour regulation and the welfare state’ by Niklas Selberg and Dr. Amin Parsa
  • The legal geography of contemporary slavery: A look at illegal mining in South America’ by Professor Laura Dehaibi
  • Contemporary forms of slavery and servitude in Canada: Causes, consequences and recent legal remedies’ by Professor Yves Goguen
  • Practices similar to servitude in Ghana: Myth or reality?’ by Julia Selman-Ayetey
  • Colonial imperialist origins and legacies concerning modern slavery: The case of Germany’ by Dr. Heiner Fechner
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