This joint research initiative, a collaboration between the Institute of Comparative Law and the , examines the legal conceptualization of labour exploitation. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical methodology, this project will draw on a variety of disciplines, spaces in time, and places around the world, to explore law鈥檚 understanding of 鈥渓abour exploitation鈥� and its relationship to society and practices.听
This year, the series consists of three events:
- Joel Quirk, 鈥�The Fictive Coherence of Global Struggle: Combating 鈥楳odern-Day Slavery鈥� in Rhetoric and Practice鈥澨�- Monday, September 28th听(via video-conference)听
- Jean-Fran莽ois Niort, 鈥�Legal Frameworks and Economic Practices Around Slave Labour in Colonial Society: The Case of the French West Indies (Guadeloupe-Martinique) in the 18th Century鈥� - Wednesday, November 4, 2015
- Afua Cooper, "Aspects of the Triangular Slave Trade in Canada"听- Wednesday, November 25, 2015 (via video-conference)
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2014-2015
Four events took place in 2014-2015:
- Richard Cholewinski, ""
- Kendra Strauss, Assistant Professor at the Labour Studies Program & The Morgan Centre for Labour Research - "Placing Unfree Labour"
- Adrian A Smith, Assistant Professor in Carleton University鈥檚 Department of Law and Legal Studies, cross-appointed to the Institute of Political Economy and the Institute of African Studies - "Historicizing 鈥楩ood Labour鈥� and Law"
- Elizabeth Elbourne, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History and Classical Studies, 平特五不中 delivered a presentation titled "After abolition : British humanitarian colonialism, the Niger Expedition and the drive to remake African labour"
2013-2014
The 2013-2014 academic year focused on establishing a transdisciplinary lecture series on old and new forms of 鈥榮lavery鈥�. Two distinguished guests were invited to deliver lectures in our inaugural year.
- Annie Bunting, Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, and Associate Professor of Law & Society at York University, who delivered a lecture titled: 鈥�Contemporary Slavery, Women鈥檚 Oral Histories, and the case of Conjugal Slavery in War鈥�; and,
- Ariel Gross, John B and Alice R Sharp Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California, who delivered a lecture titled 鈥�All Born to Freedom? Comparing the Law and Politics of Race and the Memory of Slavery in the US and France Today鈥�.
Both lectures were extremely well attended by faculty and students, both within the law faculty and other departments.
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As of 2014-2015, the ICL was joined by the at York University as an organizing partner on the research initiative.
This initiative is jointly headed by Professor Helge Dedek, Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, and , holder of the Oppenheimer Chair, in partnership with Professor , Deputy Director of the Tubman Institute.
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