This book will aid understanding and interpretation of the Californian, UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, and will provide an in-depth 3-way comparative analysis between the three Acts.

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.

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