Wk 6 – Legislation and Its Impact on Case Law

41813For this week choose a law or bill either from your state or that covers an area in which you have an interest. For example, I chose Human Trafficking. Go to the site https://www.congress.gov/search . Type in Human Trafficking as the search term. The first law that comes up is HR 3244 Victims of Trafficking and Violence Act of 2000 introduced by Rep Christopher Smith, R-NJ-4. I want you to choose one that has already become law because you will see there are committee reports, additional sponsors, actions, amendments and related bills all to be discussed. Take the law you find and explain it start to finish to the class. Don’t just cut and paste but give your classmates a good understanding of how this came to be, what it is intended to do, what issues it encountered along the way and how long the process took from start to finish. You are not required to add additional references this week for full credit. For your responses, find how your state treats this topic legislatively or a journal article that addresses the concept that can add to the analysis. Be sure to give attribution to your sources!

Course Readings: Week Six – Legislation and its impact on case law:

Orme, J., & Ross-Sheriff, F. (2015). Sex Trafficking: Policies, Programs, and Services. Social Work, 60(4), 287-294. doi:10.1093/sw/swv031

Kubasek, N., & Herrera, K. (2015). COMBATING DOMESTIC SEX TRAFFICKING: TIME FOR A NEW APPROACH. Texas Journal of Women, Gender, and the Law, 24(2), 167-193. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/docview/1735313895?accountid=8289

Hamilton, L. R. (2016). Sex trafficking legislation under the scope of the harm principle and moral panic. Hastings Law Journal, 67(2), 531.

Farrell, A., DeLateur, M. J., Owens, C., & Fahy, S. (2016). The prosecution of state-level human trafficking cases in the united states. Anti-Trafficking Review, (6), 48. doi:10.14197/atr.20121664

Barnard, A. M. (2014). “the second chance they deserve”: Vacating convictions of sex trafficking victims. Columbia Law Review, 114(6), 1463-1501.