Researching Human Trafficking Law and Policy

Researching Human TraffickingLaw and Policy

Margaret Clark

Asst. Director International & Foreign Legal Research

February 2015

First things first . . .http://guides.law.fsu.edu/humantrafficking

Secondary Sources

U.S. Law

International & Foreign Law

We will cover

Secondary Sources

Background Sources

Books and Treatises

Articles and Reports

News

Background Sources

Encyclopedic Works

Background Sources

Bibliographies

Books and TreatisesBooks and Treatises

books

books and articles

Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports

Articles

Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports

Reports

Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports

Country Reports

Current Awareness (News)

• By Type

• By State

• By International News

• By Topic

advanced: (victim human person sex labor) & trafficking % drug goods

Secondary Sources

• MaxPlanck Encyclopedia & Oxford Bibliographies

• OneSearch is a Google-type search for FSU books and articles

• There’s a wealth of databases to search for articles.

• Use regular and country reports to point to data and laws

• Current awareness tools such as BloombergBNAand blogs point to trends and to laws.

U.S. Law

Finding Federal Legislation

Finding State Legislation

Finding Cases

Finding Federal Legislation

Finding Federal Legislation

Legislative History - WestlawNextBrowse by Code Section

Finding State Legislation

• Florida Statutes and Regulations

• Florida Legislative History

• Legislation of Other States

Finding State Legislation

STEPS FOR LOCATING FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

1. Go to Online Sunshine

2. Select Laws of Florida

3. Select relevant year

4. Scroll down to relevant session law (chapter law number)

5. Identify the bill number

6. Go to the relevant chamber (house or senate) for bill

7. Select relevant year

8. Jump and scroll down to relevant bill information & legislative history

State Legislation

Finding Cases

Ongoing Cases

BloombergLaw Docket Search

Decided Cases

Human Trafficking Law Project

American Law Reports (ALR)

TIPS

Limit to categories

Coded by specific fields

CAUTION

Simple Search will not pick up:

• Phrase searching

• International materials

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U.S. Law

• Federal legislation can be found on Research Guide.

• WestlawNext for federal legislative history.

• BloombergLaw has both federal and state dockets to locate current and undecided cases.

• Human Trafficking Database Project

• American Law Reports (ALR)

International & Foreign Law

Finding Treaties

Finding Domestic Legislation

Finding International Cases

Finding Treaties

Treaties

Status of the Treaties

Drafting history

Finding Domestic Legislation

Free websitesWestlawNext & LexisNexisUpdating sources

Latest annual report UN Spec RappLatest country report UN Spec RappLOC Global Legal Monitor

Finding Domestic Legislation

Finding Domestic Legislation

Finding International Cases

Finding International Cases

Purpose

Exploitation, including:

Prostitution of others

Sexual exploitation

Forced labor

Slavery

Organ removal

Other types of exploitation

ACT

Recruitment

Transport

Transfer

Harboring

Receipt of persons

Means

Threat/Use of force

Coercion

Abduction

Fraud

Deception

Abuse of power

Payments

Finding International Cases

Finding International Cases

Topics • Contemporary forms of slavery

• Forced labor

• Survivors of trafficking

• Persons at risk of trafficking

• Trafficking in persons

• Child prostitution

From LexisAdvance

Go to lexis.com

Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > International Law

International & Foreign Law

• Locate treaty text and status from the Research Guide.

• Free websites, like Protection Project, Legislationline, & RefWorld are three good free websites for locating domestic law on human trafficking.

• International materials in both WLN and Lexis Advance are not integrated so search them separately.

Final Words

• Give yourself plenty of time.

• ILL process may take a week or more

• Use the research guide.

• Keep a journal of what you’ve searched and where.

• Lots on the Web but NOT EVERYTHING.

• Please ASK for help!

“There are many paths to enlightenment” Lao Tzu