1st Edition

Modern Slavery Legislation Drafting History and Comparisons between Australia, UK and the USA

By Sunil Rao Copyright 2020
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book will aid understanding and interpretation of the Californian, UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, and will provide an in-depth three-way comparative analysis between the three Acts. Modern slavery is a new legal compliance issue, with new legislation enacted in California (Transparency in Supply Chains Act, 2010), the UK (Modern Slavery Act, 2015) and most recently, Australia... Read more

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 The origins of the disclosure approach: California Transparency in Supply Chains Act 2010

3 Modern Slavery Act UK: transparency in supply chains provision

4 Modern Slavery Act Australia

5 International comparisons

Index

Biography

Sunil Rao is an international human rights law expert, academic and legal practitioner in the emerging area of regulatory compliance of business supply chains and modern slavery. He is currently Special Counsel at Baker McKenzie and Lecturer at the Law School, La Trobe University. Sunil has previously held the positions of Consultant to UNICEF, Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University.