The legal understanding of slavery : from the historical to the contemporary / edited by Jean Allain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allain, Jean, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Law and legislation.

Slavery.

Slavery--Law and legislation--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (883 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised."" So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening years. What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage?This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law. I

Contents:

section 1. Historical readings of the law of slavery

section 2. The American experience : blurred boundaries of slavery

section 3. The 1926 definition in context

section 4. Contemporary slavery.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-174550-2

1-283-70596-6

0-19-164535-4

0-19-164534-6

OCLC:

818851593