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Luz Estella Nagle is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Stetson University College of Law, where she taught public international law, international criminal law, transborder criminal law, human trafficking, and human rights. Her career prior to teaching includes serving as a judge in Medellín, Colombia, working as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Virginia, and pursuing software piracy cases as a member of Microsoft Corporation’s Latin America Copyright Enforcement Practice. Professor Nagle is an internationally recognized expert in several areas of public and private international law, as well as human rights. She has participated in judicial reform, human rights, and regional security projects sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice, State, and the ABA-ROLI in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. She has engaged government officials, military commanders, journalists, educators, and human rights advocates from more than 80 countries as a legal expert with the U.S. State Department’s Distinguished Foreign Visitors’ Program. She has lectured widely on four continents and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in international law in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in 2019. In Fall 2023, she taught a seminar on human trafficking and corruption in The Judy Genshaft Honors College at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. Her scholarship includes more than 80 publications, including her 2017 book, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING, CORRUPTION, AND THE OPTICS OF MISCONDUCT IN THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND NGO SECTORS: CAUSES, ACTORS, AND SOLUTIONS (Carolina Academic Press). Professor Nagle is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Association of Prosecutors, and has held key positions in the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association, where she serves as a Trustee of the IBA Human Rights Institute Trust. Professor Nagle holds an LL.D. from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, a J.D. from the College of William & Mary, an LL.M. in international law, and an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of California at Los Angeles, and two certifications in national security law from the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.