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Professor Elizabeth M. Donovan (J.D.) published her article Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act & Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act: A Shield for Jane Doe in Volume 52: Issue 1, of the Connecticut Law Review. The article considers and then rejects the claim by sex workers and sex worker rights advocates that the alleged burdens FOSTA-SESTA puts on those who self-report as freely choosing to work in the sex trade outweigh the potential benefit—fewer sextrafficking people. In the spring, the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) The Catholic View for Women, aired an interview with Professor Donovan entitled Human Trafficking: You Can Make a Difference. EWTN then took that episode, added Professor Donovan’s January 2019 interview with Fr. Mitch Pacwa on EWTN Live, and a February 2019 Inside EWTN blog post, and placed all three on the EWTN Facebook page. Professor Donovan also delivered a presentation, Sex Trafficking and Labor Trafficking: The Law, The Cases, and The Immigration Options, at the 2019 International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference, at the University of Toledo. The conference, in its seventeenth year, strives to “unite the global community to learn, connect, and collaborate to combat human trafficking and promote social justice.” Locally, Professor Donovan gave a presentation, Human Trafficking: Law & Policy, at the annual Judicial Assistant Association of Florida Conference (JAAF), held this year at the Naples Grande Hotel. JAAF members are Florida County, Circuit, Supreme Court, and District Court of Appeals Judicial Assistants. She also led a table discussion at a community gathering on human trafficking hosted by Fort Myers Mayor Randall Henderson and the Mayor’s Office Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee.

Photo taken at Human Trafficking: Law & Policy presentation delivered at Judicial Assistant Association of Florida Conference, Naples Grande Hotel, Naples, FL, September 2019 Professor Jane Adolphe and Board Member Ron Rychlak have teamed up with their skilled editorship and expertise for the book, Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis.In 2018, as accounts of clerical sexual misconduct in Chile, Honduras, and the United States roiled the Catholic Church, an international meeting of experts in journalism, law, pastoral care, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology, was convened to study the incidence of clerical sexual abuse of males. Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis is the result of that meeting and the incisive, insightful studies which it generated.

Professor Ligia De Jesús Castaldi published a new book titled Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights. This study analyzes the abortion laws of the Latin American and Caribbean nations that are parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. This new and original study by Ligia Castaldi is the first major publication to analyze in detail the abortion laws of the Latin American and Caribbean nations that are parties to the American Convention on Human Rights.

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Eugene R. Milhizer completed the manuscript for a book entitled, DISSECTING “ANATOMY OF A MURDER”: THE AUTHOR, THE CRIME, THE NOVEL, AND THE FILM. This book will be the inaugural publication for the new Ave Maria School of Law imprint. The book comprehensively considers the novel and the film “Anatomy of Murder.” Part 1 of the book is a biographical portrait of John Voelker, the defense counsel at the actual trial and author of the novel it inspired. Part 2 is an historical treatment of the crime, actual trial, novel, and film. Part 3 is comprised of commentary and reflections about legal and moral issues raised by the trial, novel, and film. Publication is expected within the year. (Book cover designed by Rob Oliver III, husband of Val Oliver, Ave Maria Law staff member.)