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Dr Elizabeth Faulkner

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Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Email: E.Faulkner@mmu.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Elizabeth A Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously held lectureships at Keele University, the University of Hull, 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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