Human Rights Curriculum

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)