Research Guides : Human Trafficking Research Guide: Getting Started

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This is an alphabetical list of FSU databases useful for researching legal issues dealing with the law of human trafficking. For a complete list of all FSU Law Databases, click here.

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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Provides retrospective access to full text law review articles, Federal Register volumes, treaties and other international agreements, opinions of the U.S. Attorney General, and cases from the United States Supreme Court. Earliest issues accessible date back to the mid-1800s.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals This link opens in a new window Provides access to articles from 1985 to the present on international law, comparative law, and municipal laws of countries other than the United States, United Kingdom, and the British Islands.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Retrospective This link opens in a new window Includes the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books with full-text coverage starting in 1994 and also includes the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981.
International Law Reports (vLex) This link opens in a new window International Law Reports includes decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts (in English). Coverage is from 1919 to the present day.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.
Kluwer Law Online Looseleafs This link opens in a new window Kluwer Law Online features access to a number of looseleaf treatises on a variety of international law topics.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window Index to law-related journal articles from1980 to the present. It is updated monthly.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law This link opens in a new window This online edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law covers central and essential topics in international law.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History This link opens in a new window The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is a comprehensive, international, interdisciplinary reference work that includes approximately 1,000 articles on all aspects of legal history throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Articles deal with private law, public law, and constitutional/higher law throughout the world and are written and signed by one of the many noteworthy contributors, which include major scholars and experts.
Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window Full text access to many journals published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford Reports in International Law This link opens in a new window This database from Oxford University Press integrates important decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Comprised of five modules (International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Investment Claims, and International Law in Domestic Courts), this online service is a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing access to a wide range of international law jurisprudence.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window

vLex Global This link opens in a new window

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Writing a Paper?

Narrow your topic on which you can write a 20-30 page paper. Select a topic that addresses a human rights law question that is of interest to you and also is original and topical.

To find ideas for your topic, check out the following news sources:

Look for circuit splits or conflicts in the law. To find circuit splits, consult some of these specific sources:

U.S. Law Week - Circuit Splits Chart (from Bloomberg Law)
45 Am. Jur. 2d Involuntary Servitude, Peonage, and Human Trafficking (Westlaw)
American Law Reports (ALR) (Westlaw)

Once you've chosen a paper topic you'll need to review the legal literature for a preemption check to be sure that another legal scholar has not already covered your topic. This tutorial will guide you on how to do this.

Use these sources in a preemption check:

Exploitation of Women and Children: A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the US-Mexico and China-Vietnam (2013)
Includes an annotated bibliography of government resources, journal articles, and news sources on human trafficking in these four jurisdictions.
Human Trafficking Research Guides
A research guide produced by Human Trafficking Search for students and researchers interested in conducting preliminary research on a variety of regions around the world.

These specialized search engines will access materials from only human rights web sites, making your search results much more relevant than a search from a generic search engine. Try them!

Organizations

U.S. Department of Labor
This site provides links to policy, research, and funding documents.
U.S. Department of State (TIP Report)
This site contains reports between 2017 and the most recent version. The TIP Report provides a view of the nature and scope of human trafficking worldwide along with a ranking of country's based on their governments' efforts to address the problem in their jurisdictions.
U.S. Department of State - Trafficking in Persons Reports
This site provides older reports from 2001 to 2016.

Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receiving a person, by threat, use of force, coercion, or abduction for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include prostitution, forced labor, slavery, servitude, use of child soldiers, or the removal of organs.