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

handle is hein.journals/clro101 and id is 1 raw text is: 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).