1. Researching Human Trafficking
Law and Policy
Margaret Clark
Asst. Director International & Foreign Legal Research
February 2015

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

3. Secondary Sources
U.S. Law
International & Foreign Law
We will cover

4. Secondary Sources
Background Sources
Books and Treatises
Articles and Reports
News

5. Background Sources
Encyclopedic Works

6. Background Sources
Bibliographies

7. Books and TreatisesBooks and Treatises
books
books and articles

8. Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports
Articles

9. Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports
Reports

10. Articles and ReportsArticles and Reports
Country Reports

12. Current Awareness (News)

13. • By Type
• By State
• By International
News
• By Topic

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

19. 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 BloombergBNA
and blogs point to trends and to laws.

20. U.S. Law
Finding Federal
Legislation
Finding State Legislation
Finding Cases

21. Finding Federal Legislation

22. Finding Federal Legislation

23. Legislative History - WestlawNext
Browse by Code Section

24. Finding State Legislation
• Florida Statutes and Regulations
• Florida Legislative History
• Legislation of Other States

28. 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

31. State Legislation

32. Finding Cases
Ongoing Cases
BloombergLaw Docket Search
Decided Cases
Human Trafficking Law Project
American Law Reports (ALR)

37. TIPS
Limit to
categories
Coded by
specific fields

38. CAUTION
Simple Search will not pick
up:
• Phrase searching
• International materials

39. AMERICANLAW
REPORTS

40. 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)

41. International & Foreign Law
Finding Treaties
Finding Domestic
Legislation
Finding International
Cases

42. Finding Treaties
Treaties
Status of the Treaties
Drafting history

43. Finding Domestic Legislation
Free websites
WestlawNext & LexisNexis
Updating sources
Latest annual report UN Spec Rapp
Latest country report UN Spec Rapp
LOC Global Legal Monitor

44. Finding Domestic Legislation

45. Finding Domestic Legislation

47. Finding International Cases

48. 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

49. Finding International Cases

50. Finding International Cases
Topics
• Contemporary forms of slavery
• Forced labor
• Survivors of trafficking
• Persons at risk of trafficking
• Trafficking in persons
• Child prostitution

52. From LexisAdvance
Go to lexis.com

53. Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > International Law

54. 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.

55. 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!

56. “There are many paths to enlightenment”
Lao Tzu