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Rutgers–Newark Law Panelists on “Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard”

September 26, 2012

What:

“Global Is Local: Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard”;

When:

8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Friday, September 28, 2012

Where:

Baker Trial Courtroom, Rutgers School of Law–Newark

8:30 – 9 am

Registration and Breakfast

9 – 9:15 am

Welcome Remarks: Dean John J. Farmer, Jr., Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli and Jessica Kitson, Director, Eric Neisser Public Interest Program

9:15 – 10 am

Keynote: Kevin Ryan, President and CEO, Covenant House

10:15 – 11:45 am

PANEL 1: RESPONSES TO COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
• Bridgette Carr, Clinical Professor, University of Michigan Law School
• Marina Colby, End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT–USA)
• Gigi Scoles, Prosecutor, Essex County Prosecutor Special Victims Unit
• Ivy Suriyopas, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense Fund Anti-Trafficking Initiative
• Professor Vera Bergelson, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator

11:45 am – 1 pm

LUNCH
Featured Speaker: Wendi Adelson, Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University and author of This Is Our Story

1 – 2:30 pm

PANEL 2: CHEAP GOODS: CONSUMERISM AND COMPULSORY LABOR
• Shana Chen, NJ Assistant U.S. Attorney, Organized Crime/Gang Unit
• Margaret Martin, Seton Hall Law School Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic
• Daniel Werner, Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigrant Justice Initiative
• Professor James Pope, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator

2:45 – 4:15 pm

PANEL 3: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Raymond Brown, Partner, Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, and Host of Due Process
• Michelle Guelbart (ECPAT–USA)
• Bill Livermore, Somaly Mam Foundation
• Hon. Laura Safer Espinoza, Fair Food Standards Council
• Professor Penny Venetis, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator

The Human Trafficking Prevention and Prosecution Project, which is a joint project with Seton Hall School of Law, is supported by funding from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.

Media Contact: Janet Donohue
973-353-5553
E-mail: jdonohue@andromeda.rutgers.edu

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