Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Of Slavery and the Law of Nations -- The Slave Trade -- Slavery -- Servitude or Institutions or Practices Similar to Slavery -- Forced or Compulsory Labour -- Enslavement -- Forced Marriage: Slavery Qua Enslavement and the Civil War in Sierra Leone -- Of the Removal of Organs, Prostitution and the Regime of Trafficking -- 2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery -- The 1926 Slavery Convention -- The 1930 Forced Labour Convention -- The 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery -- The 1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention -- 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Supplementing The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime -- Index.

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With the advent, in the twenty-first century, of the trafficking conventions and the criminalisation of enslavement before the International Criminal Court, the need to establish the black-letter law dealing with human exploitation has become acute. Slavery in International Law sets out the applicable law of human exploitation in the various sub-areas of international law, including general international law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labour law and the law of the sea; so as to create an overall understanding of what constitutes, in law, slavery and lesser types of human exploitation including: forced labour and servitudes such as debt bondage or servile marriage, as set out in the established definition of ‘trafficking in persons’.