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Dr Elizabeth Faulkner

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Lecturer in Law, Keele University, United Kingdom

Email: e.a.faulkner@keele.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Elizabeth A Faulkner is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University, having previously held a Lectureship in Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull and within the Law Schools of De Montfort University and Staffordshire University.

She is the author of The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery and the Anti-Trafficking Machine, published in spring 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan, and the editor of Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law and Society, under contract with Bristol University Press and due to be published later in 2023.

Research

Publications

  • Faulkner, E.A. The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery and the Anti-Trafficking Machine, Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
  • Faulkner, E.A. & Nyamutata, C (2020) 'The Decolonization of Children’s Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,' International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol.28 Issue 1 66-88

Expertise

Her current research interests broadly conceived are in international child law, children's rights, modern slavery, human trafficking, exploitation, mobility and violence.
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