PICS Graduation Ceremony 2024, Luis C.deBaca

Описание: 2024 Program in International and Comparative Studies Graduation Ceremony

May 2, 2024

Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca is Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan Law School. He coordinated U.S. government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery as head of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during the Obama Administration. Previously, as one of the country’s most decorated federal prosecutors, Ambassador C.deBaca investigated and prosecuted crimes of human trafficking, immigration, hate crimes, money laundering, and official misconduct, and played key roles in modernizing U.S. anti-slavery laws and negotiating the modern anti-trafficking protocol at the United Nations.

At Michigan Law, C.deBaca teaches on Criminal Law, Modern Slavery, Latinos and the Law, and the impact of forced labor in the built environment -- including through supply chains and illicit funding networks. He is an Affiliate of Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, where he lectures in the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Architecture. Ambassador C.deBaca is the recipient of the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Honor Award, the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for Litigation. He served as an Open Society Human Rights Fellow and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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