- Rights in Systems Enforced
- Human Trafficking Law and Policy
- Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Practicum
- Criminal Procedure
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Education
- BA, magna cum laude, Rice University
- JD, summa cum laude, American University, Washington College of Law
Background
Professor Stephanie Richard is the Director of the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative(SJI) at the law school. The Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative is supported by a student practicum at Loyola Law School, which trains law students on the complex intersectional issues involved with preventing human trafficking from an anti-carceral persepctive. Prior to directing SJI, Professor Richard led the development of the Rights in Systems Enforced (RISE) clinic at the law school. RISE trained and engaged students in trauma-informed direct representation of survivors of violent crime asserting their rights in state or federal criminal systems or who required related legal assistance in the civil justice system. Before joining Loyola, Richard served as the Policy & Legal Services Director at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. Her publications include e.g., State Legislation and Human Trafficking: Helpful or Harmful? in the University of Michigan, Journal of Law Reform and Expanding Protections for Guest Workers Benefits Businesses in the peer-reviewed Business & Human Rights Journal. Richard regularly provides testimony and guidance to, e.g.: the U.S. Departments of Labor, Justice, and Homeland Security; state legislatures and attorneys general offices; the Judicial Council of California; and the Uniform Law Commission.
Selected Scholarship
- Child Labor Trafficking: The Overlooked Child Welfare Issue (2023-2024)
- A Restorative Justice Alternative for Trafficking Survivors: The need for a collaborative approach in establishing a pilot program addressing survivor-articulated needs (2024)
- COVID-19: Yet More Pain for Human Trafficking Victims, Capitol Weekly (2020)
- Expanding California’s Law to Increase Protections for Temporary Guest Workers Benefits Businesses, Business and Human Rights Journal, 1-6, with Suzanne La Pierre (2020)
- Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescent Trafficking: A Review, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, with Corey J Rood MD, et. al. (2020)
- T Nonimmigrant Visas and Adjustment of Status for Victims of Human Trafficking: A Practical Guide to the Relevant Statutory Changes and Updated Regulations, Immigration Briefings, vol. 17, issue 8, 1-2 (2017)
- The Essential Abolitionist, What You Need to Know About Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery, Chapter 6, How do you create policy for the anti-trafficking movement that leads to real change? (Daliwal Press, 2015)
- Child Labor Trafficking is a Child Welfare Issue, NACC Children’s Law Manuel Series (2015)
- State Safe Harbor Laws and Recommendations for Future Legislation, Clearing House Review, Journal of Poverty and Policy, (2013)
- State Legislation and Human Trafficking: Helpful or Harmful? Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2005)