Human Trafficking

Study of modern litigation efforts in the United States to combat human trafficking. Examines civil litigation in the context of both sex and labor trafficking and discusses the issues unique to each, including victim advocacy and interaction, trauma-informed lawyering, identifying force, fraud, and coercion in the trafficking context, third-party liability, nascent case law and appellate decisions, and the problems of proof involving clandestine crimes. This class is pass/fail.