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]