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Lecture Series on Frontiers in Theory and Practice of International Organization Law
Lecture Series on Frontiers in Theory and Practice of International Organization Law
Date：2024-07-05
Jean Allain, Collusion at the League of Nations: The Creation of the Traffic in Women and Children Framework
Professor Jean Allain, Professor of International Law at Monash University, delivered a lecture on “Collusion at the League of Nations: The Creation of the Traffic in Women and Children Framework”. The lecture primarily investigated the establishment of the 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children. Based on a confidential file from the League of Nations archives, the lecture recounted a maneuver by a member state and a high-ranking official to shift the authority to ban white slave trafficking from France to the League. Despite their efforts, over 40% of countries abstained from voting on the 1921 International Convention, challenging the League's unanimous decision rule.
【Speaker Profile】
Jean Allain is a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Australia. From 2023 to 2024, he is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham. Prof. Allain is also an Adjunct Professor at Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia; and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof. Allain holds a doctorate from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. From 2015 to 2021 he held concurrent positions as a Professor of International Law at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, UK and was Special Adviser to Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest international human rights organization.