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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
