LAW7651 (Human Rights in the United States) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores the role of international human rights frameworks and strategies in social justice lawyering in the United States. Explores how lawyers are bringing human rights home on a range of issues by using human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and Inter-American Human Rights System; drawing on international human rights and comparative foreign law in litigation before U.S. courts; and engaging in other human rights-based advocacy such as documentation, organizing, and human rights education. Discusses how a human rights approach provides important strategic leverage and highlights the interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights. Through skills exercises, assignments, and real-world problems, offers students an opportunity to develop practical skills to address policies on local, state, and national levels and to support social movements.
Data updated October 2026.