Margaret Boittin

Margaret Boittin is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, with a PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley, a JD from Stanford, and a BA from Yale. Her research focuses on law and policy related to sex work, human trafficking, and labor rights, informed by ethnographic methods and fieldwork in China, Hong Kong, and Nepal.

• Research Interests: Prostitution regulation, human trafficking, forced labor, migrant domestic workers, public health law, comparative law, gender studies, empirical legal studies.
• Grants: Funded by the US Department of Labor, USAID, Humanity United, and the National Science Foundation.
• Supervision: Advises LLM students in Comparative Law, China studies, Empirical Research, and Gender studies.