Curriculum
Winter Intersession Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking
December 21, 2009 - January 3, 2010 | Optional Mainland Safari - January 4 - January 9, 2010
CURRICULUM FOR WINTER 2008
The Seton Hall Law Zanzibar Winter Intersession Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking will offer the following course:
Slavery, Human Trafficking and the Law
(2 credits)
The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (February 10, 2005) reports that 600,000 to 2 million people are trafficked across international borders annually and millions more are trafficked within borders, even though slavery is now declared to be illegal in every nation in the world. The declaration further asserts that human trafficking has become the third largest source of profits for organized crime, generating billions of dollars in revenue each year.
In spite of the illegality of trafficking and its condemnation by a broad cross-section of influential governmental and non-governmental voices, the practice seems to be exploding, raising the haunting specter that slavery, with all its ills, will once again become an accepted part of our daily lives. This course will encourage students to ask why this is so and to consider the role of the law in exposing and combating this pernicious evil. The course will provide students with a thorough introduction to the international, regional, and domestic legal rules, principles, policies, and administrative practices relevant to current efforts to end human trafficking. The course also will introduce students to the gender jurisprudence being developed in the international criminal tribunals as it relates to the problem of modern day slavery and human trafficking. Students then will review a broad variety of legal sanctions, investigative techniques, and enforcement strategies used to eliminate trafficking and related crimes, focusing on why some have succeed while others have failed. Finally, students will examine current policies and proposals designed to increase the protection and successful reintegration of victims of human trafficking. At least one class session will be conducted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha, Tanzania, with a lecture from one of the judges of the Tribunal. Students will also receive lectures from UN personnel and NGO representatives involved in combating human trafficking.