Dr. Muhamed Mattar worked in over 75 countries to promote state compliance with international human rights standards. He has advised governments on drafting and implementing anti-trafficking legislation. Currently he teaches courses on international and comparative law. And he has also authored numerous publications for law reviews and the United Nations on international human rights and Islamic law, trafficking in persons, and reporting mechanisms. His recent publications include: - “Article 43 of the Arab Charter on Human Rights: Reconciling National, Regional, and International Standards,” 26 Harvard Human Rights Journal 91 (2013) - “Transnational Legal Responses to Illegal Trade in Human Beings,” 33 SAIS Review of International Affairs, 137 (Winter-Spring 2013) - “The Good, The Bad, and The Black Informal and Illegal Economics Around the World” and "Corporate Criminal Liability: Article 10 of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime" 66 Columbia University Journal of International Affairs 107 (2012).
Claude d'Estree
Rochella Dalla, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor, created the first journal of human trafficking and is now the editor-in-chief of the journal. Professor Dalla has published a few books now, one of which concentrates on prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale. The book is titled Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Europe, Latin America, North America and Global.
Ato Quayson
Ato Quayson is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches Postcolonial and Diaspora Studies, Tragedy (from the Greeks to the Present Day), Shakespeare, African and African American Literature, Literary Theory, Literature and Disability, and Magical Realism and Postmodernism. His most recent book on human trafficking is Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations (with Antonela Arhin; New York: Routledge, 2012).
Janie Chuang
Janie Chuang is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. She specializes in issues relating to gender and labor migration, specifically, trafficking in women. As an advisor on trafficking issues for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Professor Chuang participated in the drafting of the UN Trafficking Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime, where she advocated for the inclusion of human rights protections for trafficked persons. The following are just a few of her works: - Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1655 (2010). - Achieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse, 88 N.C. L. Rev. 1627 (2010). - The United States as Global Sheriff: Unilateral Sanctions and Human Trafficking, 27 Mich. J. Intl. L. 437 (Winter 2006). - Beyond a Snapshot: Human Trafficking and the Politics of Labor Migration in a Globalized Economy, 13 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 137 (Winter 2006). - Reconceptualizing Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts, 11 Harv. Hum. Rights J. 65 (1998).