Julie Dahlstrom
Co-Principal Investigator
Julie Dahlstrom is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program at Boston University School of Law. She founded the Human Trafficking Clinic, the second law school clinic in the United States to represent trafficking victims, and in 2014, the clinic was recognized by preLaw magazine as one of the nation’s top 25 most innovative clinical programs. Her research looks at the evolution of human trafficking law in the United States, exploring how litigators have mobilized human trafficking law for instrumental gains. For example, her law review article entitled “The Elastic Meaning(s) of Human Trafficking,” published in the California Law Review, charts the expansion of federal and state human trafficking law to include new conduct and actors. She teaches in the areas of immigration, human trafficking, public interest, and gender-based violence.
Dahlstrom speaks nationally on the topic of human trafficking, including for the National Association of Attorneys General, the National Sexual Violence Conference, International Affairs Conference, Massachusetts Victim Assistance Advanced Academy, and the National Attorney General Training & Research Institute. She regularly presents at academic conferences and has published opinion pieces in The Hill, Cognoscenti, and The Los Angeles Times. She also has been quoted in articles from VICE News, NBC News, the Boston Globe, Radio Boston, WBUR, and the Washington Post.