Prerequisite(s): JUST 204 or JUST 205. This course is designed as an introduction to the particular difficulties involved in pursuing human trafficking through legal mechanisms, both domestic and international. The course is designed to provide instruction on the civil and criminal mechanisms that are used to pursue and discourage human traffickers. It should also increase students’ critical understanding of the concept of human trafficking and the use of criminal justice responses, by exploring the difficulties that have arisen involving, for instance, defining trafficking, the question of consent, the use of criminal mechanisms to coerce potential victims into cooperating with law enforcement, and the bureaucratic and cultural hurdles to legal cooperation. The course will also discuss alternative legal strategies that make the international sphere less conducive to trafficking, such as the use of business regulation, and legal protections and aid for potential victims. Finally, the course will address the detrimental effects of racism and moral panics on both criminal and civil legal strategies.