Dina Francesca Haynes Associate Professor of Law

Dina Francesca Haynes teaches Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, International Women's Issues, Refugee and Asylum Law, and Property. She previously taught Public International Law, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Immigration, and Refugee and Asylum Law at Georgetown University Law Center, American University's Washington College of Law, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Before teaching, she served as director general of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as human rights adviser to the OSCE in Serbia and Montenegro. She also served as a protection officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia. Professor Haynes was an assistant district counsel with the United States Department of Justice in the Honor Program and clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She researches and writes in the areas of international law, international organizations, ethics and self-care of international civil servants, immigration law, human rights law, human trafficking, post-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian law, and migration.

 Selected Publications

Gender and Neoliberalism, in U. Oslo (forthcoming 2011)

Lessons from Arizona Market: Human Trafficking, Democratization and the Neoliberal Reconstruction Agenda, in U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010), Reprinted in Fineman, M. ed., FEMINIST APPROACHES TO CONFLICT AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (forthcoming 2010, Intersentia Amsterdam).

On the Frontlines: Gender and Post Conflict Reconstruction (working title) (forthcoming 2010), (with Fionnuala ni Aolain and Naomi Cahn)

Good Intentions are Not Enough: Four Recommendations for Implementing the Trafficking Victim Protection Act, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 77 (2009)

Ethics of International Civil Service: A Reflection on How the Care of UN Staff Impacts the Ability to Fulfill Their Role in 'Harmonizing' the World, 30 Hamline J. Pub. L & Pol. 175 (2009)

Exploitation Nation: The Thin and Grey Legal Lines between Trafficked Persons and Abused Migrant Laborers (lead article), 23 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2009)

International Rescue Committee, in Encyclopedia of Human Rights (David P. Forsythe, ed.,2008)

The Deus ex Machina Descends: The Laws, Priorities and Players Central to the International Administration of Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Haynes, D. ed., Deconstructing the Reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008)

Deconstructing the Reconstruction: Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Post War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Haynes, D. ed.2008)

(Not) Found Chained to a Bed in a Brothel: Conceptual, Legal and Procedural Failures Fulfill the Promise of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 21 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 337 (2007)

How Can a Bosnia Happen? Book Review of Keith Doubt's Understanding Evil , 29 Hum. Rts. Q. 1144 ( 2007)

Client-Centered Human Rights Advocacy , 13 Clinical L. Rev. 379 ( 2006)

Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and Secure the Prosecution of Traffickers, 26 Hum. Rts. Q. 221 (2004), reprinted in Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader (Bert Lockwood, ed.) (2006)