This book examines how slavery is understood in law. It shows how the legal definition of slavery has evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the understanding of slavery from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries, up to the modern day manifestations, including forced labour and trafficking in persons.
This book examines how slavery is understood in law. It shows how the legal definition of slavery has evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the understanding of slavery from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries, up to the modern day manifestations, including forced labour and trafficking in persons.
Jean Allain is Professor of Public International Law at Queen's University, Belfast. He is Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is founding Editor of the Irish Yearbook of International Law and the author of The Slavery Conventions (2008) and Slavery in International Law (2012).
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* Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery * Introduction * Section 1: Historical Readings of the Law of Slavery * 1: Antony Honoré: The Nature of Slavery * 2: Richard Helmholz: The Law of Slavery in European ius commune * 3: Bernard Freamon: Definition and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law * 4: John Cairns: The Definition of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Not the True Roman Slavery * 5: Seymour Drescher: From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law * Section 2: The American Experience: Blurred Boundaries of Slavery * 6: Paul Finkelman: Slavery in the United States: Persons or Property?, * 7: Allison Mileo Gorsuch: To Indent Oneself: Ownership, Contracts, and Consent in Antebellum Illinois * 8: Rebecca Scott: Under Color of Law: Siliadin v. France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective * 9: Stanley Engerman: The Rise, Persistence, and Slow Decline of Legal Slavery * 10: William M. Carter, Jr.: The Abolition of Slavery in the United States: Historical Context and its Contemporary Application * Section 3: The 1926 Definition in Context * 11: Jean Allain: The Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century * 12: Robin Hickey: Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery * 13: J. E. Penner: The Concept of Property and the Concept of Slavery * 14: Joel Quirk: Defining Slavery in all its Forms: Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction * Section 4: Contemporary Slavery * 15: Kevin Bales: Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations * 16: Holly Cullen: Contemporary International Legal Norms on Slavery: Problems of Judicial Interpretation and Application * 17: Orlando Patterson: Trafficking, Gender, and Slavery: Past and Present * 18: Professor Kevin Bales' Response to Professor Orlando Patterson * 19: Professor Patterson Rejoiner: A Response to Professor Kevin Bales * Appendices * 1926 Slavery Convention * 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
* Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery * Introduction * Section 1: Historical Readings of the Law of Slavery * 1: Antony Honoré: The Nature of Slavery * 2: Richard Helmholz: The Law of Slavery in European ius commune * 3: Bernard Freamon: Definition and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law * 4: John Cairns: The Definition of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Not the True Roman Slavery * 5: Seymour Drescher: From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law * Section 2: The American Experience: Blurred Boundaries of Slavery * 6: Paul Finkelman: Slavery in the United States: Persons or Property?, * 7: Allison Mileo Gorsuch: To Indent Oneself: Ownership, Contracts, and Consent in Antebellum Illinois * 8: Rebecca Scott: Under Color of Law: Siliadin v. France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective * 9: Stanley Engerman: The Rise, Persistence, and Slow Decline of Legal Slavery * 10: William M. Carter, Jr.: The Abolition of Slavery in the United States: Historical Context and its Contemporary Application * Section 3: The 1926 Definition in Context * 11: Jean Allain: The Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century * 12: Robin Hickey: Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery * 13: J. E. Penner: The Concept of Property and the Concept of Slavery * 14: Joel Quirk: Defining Slavery in all its Forms: Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction * Section 4: Contemporary Slavery * 15: Kevin Bales: Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations * 16: Holly Cullen: Contemporary International Legal Norms on Slavery: Problems of Judicial Interpretation and Application * 17: Orlando Patterson: Trafficking, Gender, and Slavery: Past and Present * 18: Professor Kevin Bales' Response to Professor Orlando Patterson * 19: Professor Patterson Rejoiner: A Response to Professor Kevin Bales * Appendices * 1926 Slavery Convention * 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
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