Human Rights Curriculum
Georgetown Law offers one of the nation's largest curriculums on domestic and international human rights law. If you're interested in learning about justice and accountability, civil rights, women's human rights, refugee and asylum law, or business and human rights, among many other topics — and learning from experts in the field — you've come to the right place.
The Human Rights Institute has compiled this survey of human rights courses by broad subject-matter area. Please refer to the Curriculum Guide for more up to date information.
Courses
Advocacy and Activism
Effective Human Rights Advocacy in Polarized Environments (Seminar)
Extradition Simulation: International Law, Human Rights, and Effective Advocacy
Human Rights Advocacy: Lessons from the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Other Human Rights Campaigns (Seminar)
Human Rights Advocacy in Action (Project-based Practicum)
Global Revolutions, Civic Activism, and Civil Society (Seminar)
Law and Social Change (Seminar)
Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights (Fieldwork Practicum)
Business and Human Rights in the Global Economy (Seminar)
Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment Seminar
Death Penalty Litigation (Project-based Practicum)
The Death Penalty in America (Seminar)
Human Rights Advocacy: Lessons from the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Other Human Rights Campaigns
Race and Poverty in Capital and Other Criminal Cases
Civil Rights
Civil Rights: Section 1983 & Police Accountability
Civil Rights: The Ensuing Pursuit of Justice
Civil Rights and Violence Against Women (Project-based Practicum)
Civil Rights Clinic
Civil Rights Statutes and the Supreme Court (Seminar)
Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Street Law: Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Project-based Practicum)
Environment and Climate
International Environmental Law (Seminar)
Ethics
Human Rights, Then and Now Seminar: Philosophy, History, Prospects (Seminar)
Philosophy of International Legal Responsibility (Seminar)
Health and Human Rights
Decolonization, Global Health & the Law (Seminar)
Global Health Law (Seminar)
Health and Human Rights Practicum (Project-based Practicum)
Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic
Health, Law and Islam (Seminar)
Industry Epidemics: Non-communicable Diseases, Commercial Risk Factors and the Law (Seminar)
Indigenous Health Law and Access to Health Care (Seminar)
International Right to Health (Seminar)
LGBTQ Health Law and Policy (Seminar)
Regulating Alcohol, Tobacco & Food in International and Comparative Law (Project-based Practicum)
Reproductive Health and International Human Rights Law (Project-Based Practicum)
Human Rights and Development
International Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Global Health (Seminar)
International Trade, Development & the Common Good (Seminar)
Law and Development (Seminar)
Human Rights Instruments and Institutions
Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs Seminar
Human Rights and the Inter-American System (Seminar)
International Human Rights Law (Seminar)
International Law I: Introduction to International Law (Seminar)
Rule of Law and the Administration of Justice (Seminar)
International Criminal Law / Accountability
From Nuremberg to Kyiv: Aggression and Accountability (Seminar)
Justice and Accountability for International Atrocity Crimes: Bridging Theory and Practice Seminar
International Criminal Law (Seminar)
International Justice for War Crimes and Atrocities Practicum (Project-based Practicum)
International Law, the Global Arms Trade and Human Rights (Seminar)
International Law, Human Rights & Fighting Impunity (Seminar)
The International Court of Justice: Its Role, Jurisprudence and Future (Seminar)
War Crimes, Terrorism & International Criminal Procedure (Seminar)
Law of War / International Humanitarian Law
Advanced Topics in International Humanitarian Law (Seminar)
Intro to Humanitarian Crises (Seminar)
Law of War (Seminar)
War Crimes, Terrorism & International Criminal Procedure (Seminar)
LGBTQ Rights
Gender and Immigration (Fieldwork Practicum)
LGBTQ Health Law and Policy (Seminar)
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sex Characteristics and International Human Rights Law (Project-based Practicum)
Migration and Refugees
Center for Applied Legal Studies (Clinic)
Gender and Immigration (Fieldwork Practicum)
Globalization, Work, and Inequality (Seminar)
Immigration Law and Policy (Seminar)
Refugee Law and Policy (Seminar)
National Security and Human Rights
Artificial Intelligence and National Security: Law, Ethics, and Technology (Seminar)
Global Law Scholars Seminar II: Applying an International Skill Set (Seminar)
National Security and Human Rights (Seminar)
National Security Law (Seminar)
Poverty Reduction
Income and Public Benefits
International Law Seminar: Poverty Reduction and Accountability (Seminar)
Poverty Law and Policy (Fieldwork Practicum)
Privacy and Policing
Civil Rights: Section 1983 & Police Accountability
Policing in the 21st Century: Law Enforcement, Technology, and Surveillance
Racial Justice
Race and American Law
Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic
Religious Freedom
Law and Religion (Fieldwork Practicum)
Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Health and International Human Rights Law (Project-based Practicum)
Reproductive Justice (Seminar)
Women's Rights
Civil Rights and Violence Against Women (Project-based Practicum)
Gender and Immigration (Fieldwork Practicum)
Gender and U.S. Foreign Policy (Seminar)
LAWA Graduate Seminar
LAWA Graduate Seminar II
Scholarly Writing: African Women's Human Rights Issues
Worker Rights
Employment Discrimination (Seminar)
Labor Law and the Changing US Workforce (Seminar)
Labor Law: Union Organizing, Collective Bargaining, and Unfair Labor Practices (Seminar)
Policy Clinic (Harrison Institute for Public Law)
Worker Rights & Globalization (Seminar)