Includes bibliographical references and index.

What we know today : a contemporary understanding of the Atlantic slave trade -- The nineteenth century law of the sea and the British abolition of the slave trade -- Fydor Martens and the question of slavery at the 1890 Brussels conference -- Slavery and the League of Nations : Ethiopia as a civilised nation -- The international legal regime of slavery and human exploitation and its obfuscation by the term of art : slavery-like practice' -- A review of Understanding global slavery, a reader by Kevin Bales -- A review of Trafficking in human beings, modern slavery by Silvia Scarpa -- A case note of Hadijatou Mani Koraou v. Republic of Niger -- A case note of Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia -- Immanent critique : international law and the dubious case-law on slavery -- A review of The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law by Jenny S. Martinez -- Review of Colonialism, slavery, reparations and trade, remedying the past? edited by Fernne Brennan and John Packer -- No effective trafficking definition exists : domestic implementation of the Palermo Protocol -- On the curious disappearance of human servitude from general international law -- Sham adoption : the DNA of a conventional servitude -- Exploitation and labour in international law -- A legal consideration 'slavery' in light of the travaux preparatoires of the 1926 convention -- The definition of 'slavery' in general international law and the crime of enslavement within the Rome statute -- Case note of the Queen v. Tang -- When forced marriage is slavery -- Property law and the definition of slavery / Jean Allain and Robin Hickey -- Slavery and its definition / Jean Allain and Kevin Bales.

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