Human Trafficking Selected Bibliography

Mohamed Y. Mattar, Interpreting Judicial Interpretations of the Criminal Statutes of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Ten Years Later, 19 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 1247 (2011).

• Mattar's article tracked the evolution of TVPA, looking at how the courts and legislature reaction shifted the law from territorial to extraterritorial, and concluded that the law fulfills the standards in fighting human trafficking established by the UN Human Trafficking Protocol.
• STU Law Access- HeinOnline, available at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ajgsp19&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals&id=1259

Roza Pati, Beyond the Duty to Protect: Expanding Accountability and Responsibilities of the State in Combating Human Trafficking, in The Diversity of International Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Kalliopi K. Koufa (Constantinides & Koufa eds. 2009).

• Professor Pati's essay proposing new methods and standards for states in combating human trafficking.
• Call Number- K 5240.O26 2010
• Location- St. Thomas University Law Library General Collection

Elizabeth M. Wheaton, Economics of Human Trafficking, 48 International Migration 114 (2010).

• The authors utilized an economics based inquiry into severe forms of human trafficking, as defined by the TVPA and UN Human Trafficking Protocol, to look at the economic factors that drive victims to enter into the human trafficking market, provide incentives to become human traffickers, and other economic factors supporting the trafficking trade.
• STU Law Access- Wiley Online Library, available at http://rdcu.be/wPYr/

1. Tom Obokata, Trafficking of Human Beings from a Human Rights Perspective: Toward a Holistic Approach (2006).

   • Obokata's work analyzed human trafficking through the international human rights constructs of human dignity, in order to fully understand the human rights at stake and to promote state action against this growing epidemic.
   • Call Number- K3268 .O26 2006
   • Location- St. Thomas University Law Library General Collection
    

   Tom Obokata, Transnational Organized Crime in International Law (2010).

   • This book provides a detailed overview of the international laws, several state systems, and transnational laws (e.g., Treaty on the European Union) that are designed to combat transitional organized crime. By identifying relative treaties and hallmark cases, Obokata provided a legal framework for the current state of international criminal law as it pertains to transnational organized crime.
   • Call Number- K5240 .O26 2010
   • Location- St. Thomas University Law Library General Collection
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