Human Trafficking Law in U.S.

Catalog description

This course will cover the development, adoption and implementation of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and its reauthorizations. Students will learn the legal definitions of slavery, peonage, involuntary servitude debt bondage, and sex trafficking; how to identify potential clients in these scenarios; and how to provide trauma-informed legal services to survivors. Areas of law this course will intersect include immigration law, family law, victim advocacy in the criminal prosecution process, expungement and vacatur, employment law and civil litigation. Graded.