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The Seton Hall Law Zanzibar Winter 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 on the planet. 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.
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