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.
Georgetown’s International Law program is ranked 4th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and our clinical program has consistently topped the list.
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
Human Rights Advocacy in Action (Project-based Practicum)
Global Revolutions, Civic Activism, and Civil Society (Seminar)
The United States and Human Rights (Seminar)
Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights (Fieldwork Practicum)
Business and Human Rights in the Global Economy (Seminar)
Business, Human Rights and Sustainability (Seminar)
Capital Punishment
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 and Violence Against Women (Project-based Practicum)
Civil Rights Clinic
Civil Rights Statutes and the Supreme Court (Seminar)
Topics in LGBT Civil Rights (Seminar)
Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Street Law: Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Project-based Practicum)
Critical Theory
International Human Rights: History, Theory, Promise and Critique (Seminar)
Environment and Climate
Business, Human Rights and Sustainability (Seminar)
International Environmental Law (Seminar)
Ethics
Research with Human Subjects: Law, Policy, & Ethics
Health and Human Rights
Global Health Law (Seminar)
Health and Human Rights Practicum (Project-based Practicum)
Industry Epidemics: Non-communicable Diseases, Commercial Risk
Factors and the Law (Seminar)
Indigenous Health Law and Access to Health Care
LGBTQ Health Law and Policy (Seminar)
Regulating Alcohol, Tobacco & Food in International and Comparative Law (Project-based Practicum)
Human Rights and Development
Law and Development (Seminar)
Human Rights Instruments and Institutions
Human Rights and the Inter-American System (Seminar)
International Human Rights Law (Seminar)
International Law I: Introduction to International Law (Seminar)
International Law in Domestic Courts (Seminar)
International Criminal Law / Accountability
Immunity under International Law (Seminar)
International Criminal Law (Seminar)
International Law, Human Rights & Fighting Impunity (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
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)
Immigration Law and Policy (Seminar)
Refugee Law and Policy (Seminar)
National Security and Human Rights
Global Law Scholars Seminar II: Applying an International Skill Set (Seminar)
International Law, National Security, and Human Rights (Seminar)
National Security Law (Seminar)
Poverty Reduction
International Law Seminar: Poverty Reduction and Accountability (Seminar)
Privacy and Policing
Policing in the 21st Century: Law Enforcement, Technology, and Surveillance
Racial Justice
Race, Inequality, and Justice (Seminar)
Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic
Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Health and International Human Rights Law (Project-based Practicum)
Reproductive Rights (Seminar)
Women's Rights
Gender and U.S. Foreign Policy (Seminar)
International and Comparative Law on Women’s Human Rights (Seminar)
International Women’s Human Rights Clinic
LAWA Graduate Seminar
LAWA Graduate Seminar II
Scholarly Writing: African Women's Human Rights Issues
Worker Rights
Employment Discrimination (Seminar)
Policy Clinic (Harrison Institute for Public Law)
Worker Rights in the Global Economy (Seminar)