Buel to speak about human trafficking at University of Kentucky


<p><a href="http://apps.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=69160">… Buel</a>, Director of the <a href="http://www.law.asu.edu/Default.aspx?alias=www.law.asu.edu/dhc">Diane Halle Center for Family Justice</a> at the College of Law, will give a lecture, “Coercion and Agency in Human Trafficking,” at an event hosted by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Research on Violence Against Women, Feb. 23.</p><separator></separator><p>During the lecture, Buel will discuss the many legal issues associated with international human trafficking.</p><separator></separator><p>Buel, who NBC has called one of the five most inspiring women in America, has worked for more than 30 years with battered women and children. She graduated <em>cum laude</em> from Harvard Law School, where she founded the Harvard Battered Women’s Advocacy Project, the Harvard Women in Prison Project, and the Harvard Children and Family Rights Project. She was a prosecutor for six years in Boston and Quincy, Mass., and for 14 years was a clinical professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where she founded and co-directed their Domestic Violence Clinic, co-founded the University of Texas Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and served as special counsel for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.</p><separator></separator><p>Staci McCabe, <a href="mailto:Staci.McCabe@asu.edu">Staci.McCabe@asu.edu</a><br />(480) 965-8702<br />Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law</p>