Adelle Blackett | |
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Academic background | |
Education |
Queen's University at Kingston (
BA) McGill University ( BCL, LLB) Columbia University ( LLM, SJD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law |
Sub-discipline |
Labour law Human rights law |
Institutions | McGill University |
Adelle Blackett FRSC is a Canadian legal scholar working as a professor of law at McGill University Faculty of Law.
Blackett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1989, a Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws from the McGill University Faculty of Law in 1994, and a Master of Laws and Doctor of Law from Columbia Law School. [1]
Blackett's scholarship focuses on labour law and human rights issues. [2] [3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 and was awarded a fellowship by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016. [4] [5] Blackett has served as a commissioner of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse. [2] As of 2018 [update], she held a Canada Research Chair in transnational labour law and development. [6] In 2023, she received the Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Labour Law Research Network. [7]