Dr Elizabeth Faulkner
| Biography | Dr Elizabeth A. Faulkner is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University (UK) and the Director of the Childcare Law and Practice (CCLP) MA. Elizabeth’s interests, broadly conceived, are in international law, human rights, legal history and crime, specialising in international child law, human trafficking, modern slavery, children’s rights, mobility/migration and exploitation. She is the author of 'The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery and the Anti-Trafficking Machine' which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2023 in the Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security Series. She has a forthcoming edited collection contracted with Bristol University Press 'Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law and Society' due to be published in April 2024. Her most cited work to date is a co-written peer reviewed article with Dr Conrad Nyamutata titled 'The Decolonization of Children’s Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' published in the International Journal of Children’s Rights in 2020. Elizabeth has a range of media experience, appearing in interviews upon local, national and international radio stations to discuss aspects of her research. Appearing as a panelist on BBC’S live TV program The Big Questions in March 2018 as an expert upon modern slavery. She has presented her work internationally and has been an invited speaker to the University of Oxford, Tel Aviv University and University of Liverpool. Elizabeth teaches upon a range of undergraduate and postgraduate Law modules, including Child Law, Transnational Organised Crime and International Human Rights Law. |
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| Research Interests | International Child Law; International Human Rights Law; Children's Rights; Legal History; Modern Slavery; Exploitation; Human Trafficking; Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. |
| Teaching and Learning | International Human Rights Law; Child Law; Law in Action; Transnational Organised Crime. |