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101 Cornell L. Rev. Online 1 (2015-2016)

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     HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND FILM: HOW
POPULAR PORTRAYALS INFLUENCE LAW AND
                  PUBLIC PERCEPTION


                       Jonathan Todrest


INTRODU  CTION ....................................................................... 1
   I. LAW  AND  CULTURE  IN FILM ............................................. 4
   II. HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT THE MOVIES .............................. 6
      A. An Overview of Three Films .................................. 7
      B. Cinematic Myths and Realities ............................. 9
 III. POPULAR TRAFFICKING NARRATIVES REFLECTED IN LAW
      A ND POLICY ................................................................ 19
CONCLUSION   ...................................................................... 22

                          INTRODUCTION

    Over the past fifteen years, human trafficking has
emerged as one of the great human rights causes of our
time.1   During this time, federal anti-trafficking law      has
developed significantly2 and all fifty states have adopted



   t Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law. lank you to
Janie Chuang, Russ Covey, Lauren Sudeall Lucas, and Caren Morrison for
comments and suggestions and to Tiffany Nichols, Caitlyn Davis, and Brea
Croteau for their excellent research assistance. An earlier version of this
Essay was presented at Indiana University McKinney School of Law.
   1  Barack Obama, U.S. President, Remarks by the President to the
Clinton Global Initiative, Address at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
(Sept.      25,      2012),      http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-
office/2012/09/25/remarks-president-clinton-global -initiative
[https://perma.cc/K4JK-VZZ2].
   2  E.g., Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, Pub. L. No.
113-14, 127 Stat. 54 (codified as amended in scattered sections of the U.S.
Code) (including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of
2013); see  also  William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-457, 122 Stat. 5044 (codified as
amended in scattered sections of the U.S. Code); Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-164, 119 Stat. 3558 (codified as
amended in scattered sections of the U.S. Code); Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-193, 117 Stat. 2875 (codified as
amended in scattered sections of the U.S. Code); Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-386, 114 Stat. 1464 (codified as amended in
scattered sections the U.S. Code).

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