Jean Allain is Professor of Public International Law, Queen’s University, Belfast; Extraordinary Professor, Human Rights Centre, University of Pretoria. He is author of A Century of International Adjudication, 2000, International Law in the Middle East, 2004, and The Slavery Conventions, 2008.

• Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction;Chapter 1: Of Slavery and the Law of NationsFrom Ancient to ModernInternational Law during the Age of DiscoveryConclusionChapter 2: The Slave Trade Towards Abolition of the Slave TradeAbolition of the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth CenturyAbolition of the Slave Trade in the Twentieth CenturyThe 1926 Slavery ConventionThe United Nations International Law CommissionThe 1956 Supplementary ConventionThe 1958 Convention on the High Seas and the 1982 Law of the Sea ConventionConclusionChapter 3: SlaveryThe Legislative History of the Definition of SlaveryThe Content of the Definition of Slavery‘The Powers Attaching to the Right of Ownership’ConclusionChapter 4: Servitude or ‘Institutions or Practices Similar to Slavery’Providing Clarity to Servitude‘Servitude’The 1956 Supplementary ConventionDebt BondageSerfdomServile MarriageBride PurchaseWife TransferWidow InheritanceChild TraffickingConclusionChapter 5: Forced or Compulsory LabourContextualising Forced LabourThe Evolution of Forced or Compulsory Labour in Law1926 Slavery Convention1930 Forced Labour ConventionArticle 2(1) – The Definition of Forced or Compulsory LabourArticle 2(2) – The Exceptions to the Definition of Forced or Compulsory LabourArticle 2(2)(a) – Military ServiceArticle 2(2)(b) and (e) – Civic ObligationsArticle 2(2)(c) – Penal LabourArticle 2(2)(d) – Emergencies1957 Abolition of Forced Labour ConventionArticle 1(a) – Means of Political CoercionArticle 1(b) – Method of Economic Development Article 1(c) – Means of Labour DisciplineArticle 1(d) – Punishment for Strikes Article 1(e) – Means of Discrimination Forced or Compulsory Labour as a Jus Cogens Norm?ConclusionChapter 6: EnslavementThe Evolution of Enslavement in International Criminal LawThe International Law CommissionInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaEnslavement and the Statute of the International Criminal CourtSimilar Deprivations of LibertyTrafficking in PersonsSpecial Court for Sierra LeoneConclusionChapter 7: Forced Marriage: Slavery qua Enslavement and the Civil War in Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneThe Brima case Forced Marriage as SlaveryServile Marriage in War and PeaceConclusionChapter 8: Of the Removal of Organs, Prostitution, and the Regime of TraffickingTrafficking in Persons for the Removal of OrgansThe Evolution of the Regime of Trafficking‘Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others or Other Forms of Sexual Exploitation’The Overall Definition of Trafficking in PersonsThe Legal Regime of TraffickingConclusionAppendices:Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Parameters of Slavery 1926 Slavery Convention1930 Forced Labour Convention1956 Supplementary Convention1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention2000 Palermo ProtocolIndex.