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Luis C. deBaca is a Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan Law School, where he has pursued extensive research and teaching related to criminal law, race and slavery, policing, immigration, national security, labor, Indian law, international law, and civil rights. His career spans significant roles in the U.S. government, including serving as the Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during the Obama administration, where he was instrumental in establishing a victim-centered approach to combat modern slavery, advocating for the updates in statutes aligned with the 13th Amendment. He has also been involved in drafting the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act and negotiating anti-trafficking protocols at the United Nations. DeBaca's expertise encompasses the prosecution of complex cases in human trafficking, hate crimes, police misconduct, and more. After retiring from government service, he became a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and has lectured at both Yale Law School and the Yale School of Architecture. His current projects include research on the historical forms of slavery and involuntary servitude and advocating for a national slavery memorial in Washington, D.C.
University of Michigan Law School • Ann Arbor, MI
Teaching and conducting research in various disciplines including criminal law and civil rights.
U.S. State Department • Washington, D.C.
Led government efforts in combating human trafficking and developed policies for victim protection.
Justice Department’s Office of Sex Offender Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, Tracking • Washington, D.C.
Oversaw the monitoring and registration of sex offenders.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science