Jean Allain

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Jean Allain (* 1965 ) is a lawyer, author, professor at Monash University and the University of Hull , associate professor at the University of Pretoria and advisor to Anti-Slavery International . He is known for his pioneering work on modern slavery .

life and work

Allain grew up in Canada. He completed his master's thesis at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José , Costa Rica , and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI) In preparation of the promotion graduated he a clerkship under the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia .

He became Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at Queen's University Belfast . From 1998 to 2004 taught at the American University in Cairo , Egypt . He became Professor of International Public Law at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, and Associate Professor at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria , South Africa. Since 2015 he has been special advisor to Anti-Slavery International , the world's oldest human rights organization .

He is now also Professor of Law at Monash University Law School in Melbourne , Australia and Associate of the University's Castan Center. He was also appointed visiting professor at the Beijing Pedagogical University for the period from 2017 to 2020 .

Allain is a generalist in the field of international law, specializing in human rights . His work focuses on modern slavery and human trafficking . The book The Legal Understanding of Slavery, From the Historical to the Contemporary , which he published in 2012, is considered the most comprehensive account of the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery , on the concept of slavery and its interpretation in law. In 2008, the Australian Supreme Court established the legal applicability of the 1926 definition of slavery to contemporary situations based on these guidelines.

In 2016, a ruling in a trial by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights made extensive use of Allain's expertise on the subject of slavery and forced labor and the concept of modern slavery.

He has worked in an advisory capacity for the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Publications

Books
  • The Law and Slavery: Prohibiting Human Exploitation , Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-9004-27988-9
  • Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking , Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-9004-18695-8
  • The Slavery Conventions: The Travaux Préparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention , 2008
  • International Law in the Middle East: Closer to Power than Justice , Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2004.
  • A Century of International Adjudication: The Rule of Law and its Limits , TMC Asser Press, 2000, ISBN 978-9067041256 The Slavery Conventions: The Travaux Préparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention (The Travaux Préparatoires Of Multilateral Treaties) , Brill - Nijhoff, 2008, ISBN 978-9004-15861-0
as editor
  • Ting Xu (Author, Ed.), Jean Allain (Ed.): Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (Human Rights Law in Perspective) , Hart Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1849-46726-1
  • Jean Allain (Ed.): The Legal Understanding of Slavery, From the Historical to the Contemporary , Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0199-66046-9
  • Jean Allain (Ed.), Siobhán Mullally (Ed.): The Irish Yearbook of International Law , Volume 3, 2008. ISBN 978-1847-31628-8
Article (selection)
  • The White Slave Traffic in International Law , Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation, Volume 1, 2017, pp. 1-40
  • The Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century , in Jean Allain J (Ed.), The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary , pp. 253-280, 2012, Oxford University Press
  • Nineteenth Century Law of the Sea and the British Abolition of the Slave Trade , British Yearbook of International Law, Volume 78, 2008, pp. 342-388
  • Orientalism and International Law: the Middle East as Underclass of the International Legal Order , Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 17, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 391-404. doi : 10.1017 / S0922156504001864
  • with John RWD Jones: A Patchwork of Norms, A Commentary on the 1996 Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind , European Journal of International Law, Volume 8, No. 1, 1997, p. 115

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jean Allain. Mnash University, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Professor Jean Allain. University of Hull, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d World-leading anti-slavery expert Prof Jean Allain joins Monash Law. Monash University, January 23, 2017, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Jean Allain, catalog of the German National Library (DNB) , accessed on March 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Jean Allain. In: researchgate.net. Accessed March 10, 2018 .
  6. ^ Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery. Accessed March 10, 2018 .
  7. ^ Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery. Queen's University Belfast, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  8. ^ Jean Allain: Redefinition of an old concept: slavery and international law. Federal Agency for Civic Education, December 4, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ About the team. In: Antislavery Usable Past. Accessed March 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Allain, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1965