In a court decision in 1914 Benjamin Cardozo wrote that every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body.... Now known as the right or principle of autonomy, this concept pervades the law, undergirding virtually all rights relating to...

The problem of trafficking has received enormous attentions since the late 1990s, driven in particular by the United States initiatives under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and its subsequent reauthorizations in 2003 and 2005 (the TVPA) and the United Nations Protocol to...