Digging deeper
Over the years,聽members of the LLDRL have sponsored聽and taught seminars with a special focus on the theories, discourses and stories that shape labour law and influence our members'聽work. These include the student-initiated聽Critical Race Theory Seminar, sponsored聽by Professors聽Adanhounme and Professor Blackett, and the Critical Race Theory and Slavery and the Law Seminars taught by Professor Blackett.
Transnational Futures of International Labour Law
To mark the ILO's centenary, in the winter of 2019, Professor Blackett taught a new specialized seminar entitled "Transnational Futures of International Labour Law" alongside leading visiting lecturers and ILO experts.聽
The course, hosted by the Trudeau Foundation and the鈥疐aculty of Law at 平特五不中, covered鈥痚merging topics in international labour law, such as鈥痶he regulation of domestic work, forced labour, violence at work, informality, racial discrimination and international labour law multilateral and regional trade. It offered a unique opportunity to critically reflect on its transnational futures. All lectures of this seminar were open to the public and live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook.聽
Transnational Labour Law Seminar Series on Airline Labour Law
In the winter of 2023, Professor Blackett is teaching an advanced Transnational Labour Law seminar, in collaboration with teaching fellow Julia Selman-Ayetey. The seminar centres the corpus of international labour standards emanating primarily from the organization that survived the League of Nations to become a United Nations specialized agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO).聽聽