Human Trafficking: Combatting a global phenomenon  

March 21, 17:00 (Israel) /19:00 (GMT)

Join Professor Hila Shamir, from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, to learn more about new approaches to solving human trafficking. 

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Hadas Farush

Haaretz

Professor of Law Hila Shamir

Human trafficking, is considered by many to be one of the most pressing moral and political challenges of today’s global economy. However, despite significant international commitment to combat trafficking a mere 5% of the millions of victims are identified every year, and far fewer are assisted. 

In her talk Prof. Shamir will propose that one reason for the low effectiveness of contemporary anti-trafficking efforts lies in the mismatch between the legal tools we use to address the problem, and the actual causes of human trafficking.  

Prof. Hila Shamir is on the Tel-Aviv University's Faculty of Law, where she teaches and researches on   Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of human trafficking, gender equality, informal work, and welfare state privatization.  She earned a S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University and has  taught at Georgetown Law School, UC Berkeley, Cornell Law School, and at the Harvard University Department of Government.

  

Prior to her graduate studies, Prof. Shamir served as a law clerk to Justice E. Mazza of the Israeli Supreme Court. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, the Alon Scholarship for outstanding junior faculty, and of research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.  

Shamir received an European Research Council (ERC) grant to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking, and established TraffLab – Labor Perspective to Human Trafficking research project (2018-2023).

At TraffLab an interdisciplinary group of scholars and lawyers are researching various labor based tools to transform severely exploitative labor sectors.

 

  

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