Adelle Blackett
Faculty of Law, McGill University Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development
Montreal, Canada Area
Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law & Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, and directs the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory. She holds a B.A. from Queen’s, LL.B. & B.C.L. from McGill, and LL.M. & J.S.D. from Columbia. She received SSHRC’s Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research in 2010, and the
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship in 2016. A former official of the International Labour Office in Geneva, she later authored the law and practice report and questionnaire that led to ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers, and led an ILO labour law reform process in Haiti. She was unanimously appointed by the National Assembly of Quebec to the province’s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission (2009-2016). She was awarded the
Christine Tourigny Award of Merit from the Barreau du Québec and the status of advocate emeritus in 2014.