Human Rights Classes

Below, you’ll find a list of courses offered at HLS, or, available to HLS students through cross-registration at Harvard-affiliated schools.

Are you in a BHR-related class, but don’t see that class listed? Let us know by sending an email to [email protected] so we can add the course!

HLS & Cross-Listed Courses

SchoolTitleProfessorSemester offeredCredits
HLSBusiness and Human Rights Clinical SeminarTyler GianniniFall 20192
HLSContested Domains: Comparative and International Legal Struggles Over Sexual and Reproductive HealthTBASpring 20202
HLSPoverty, Human Rights, and DevelopmentLucie WhiteFall 20193
HLSPublic International LawNaz ModirzadehFall 20194
HLSPublic International LawGabriella BlumSpring 20204
HLSInternational Law and Human Rights in an Era of Inequality: Views from the Global SouthArnulf BeckerFall 20192
HLSLaw and Development in Africa: Contemporary Issues, Problems and ProspectsInnocent Enga KameniFall 20191
HLSGender Violence, Law and Social JusticeDiane RosenfeldSpring 20203
HLSGender Violence Legal Policy WorkshopDiane RosenfeldSpring 20202
HLSClimate Change, Displacement and the LawJane McAdamFall 20191
HLSMaking Rights Real: The Ghana ProjectLucie WhiteFall 2019 – Spring 20203
HLSInternational Labor MigrationSabrineh AradalanSpring 20202
HLSHuman Rights in the UN Treaty BodiesGerald NeumanFall 2019 – Spring 20202
HLSLaw of the Jungle? Can Insurgents and Terrorists Make and Enforce “Law” or Provide “Justice”?Benjamin SaulFall 20191
HLSHuman Rights Careers: Strategic Leadership WorkshopSusan FarbsteinFall 20192
HLSInternational Counterterrorism LawBenjamin SaulFall 20193
HLSHuman Rights and International LawGerald NeumanFall 20194
HLSHuman Rights and Social Justice: Comparative Legal InstitutionsArnulf BeckerSpring 20203
HLSThe Promises and Challenges of DisarmamentBonnie DochertySpring 20202
HLSHuman Rights AdvocacyAnna CroweSpring 20202
HLSInternational Investment Arbitration: Policies, Issues and ChallengesTBASpring 20201
HLSHuman Rights Law in JapanJ. RamseyerSpring 20201
HLSDisability, Human Rights, and DevelopmentMichael SteinFall 20192
HLSLegal Problems in Cybersecurity and Cyber ConflictTBASpring 20202
HLSHuman Rights and Humanitarianism through the Lens of Documentary FilmRebecca Richman CohenSpring 20201
HLSHuman Rights Litigation WorkshopTyler GianniniFall 20191
HLS + HKSMigration and Human RightsJacqueline BhabhaFall 20191
HLS + HKSGeopolitics, Human Rights, and the Future of StatecraftSamantha PowerSpring 20202
HLS + HKSGlobal GovernanceKathryn SikkinkFall 20194

BHR Courses Beyond HLS

SchoolTitleProfessorSemester offeredCredits
Graduate School of Art and DesignGlobal Perspectives on Shelter Insecurity and DisplacementMichael HooperSpring 20204
Graduate School of EducationContemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable ProblemsTarun Khanna, Satchit BalsaraFall 20194
Graduate School of EducationFrom Plantations to Prisons: Justice, Punishment, and LearningKaia SternFall 20192
Graduate School of Art and DesignGlobal Perspectives on Shelter Insecurity and DisplacementMichael HooperSpring 20204
Graduate School of EducationContemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable ProblemsTarun Khanna, Satchit BalsaraFall 20194
Graduate School of EducationFrom Plantations to Prisons: Justice, Punishment, and LearningKaia SternFall 20192
Harvard Chan SchoolEmerging Issues in Humanitarian Response and Human RightsPhuong Pham, Michael VanRooyenFall 20191.25
Harvard Chan SchoolIssues in Health and Human RightsStephen MarksFall 20192.5
Harvard Chan SchoolInternational Humanitarian Response IStephanie Kayden, Gregory GottliebSpring 20202.5
Harvard Chan SchoolEmerging Issues in Humanitarian Response and Human RightsPhuong Pham, Michael VanRooyenFall 20191.25
Harvard Chan SchoolIssues in Health and Human RightsStephen MarksFall 20192.5
Harvard Chan SchoolInternational Humanitarian Response IStephanie Kayden, Gregory GottliebSpring 20202.5
HKSDisability Law and PolicyMichael SteinSpring 20204
HKSCorporate Responsibility and New Governance ModelsJane NelsonSpring 20202
HKSStrategizing for Human Rights: Moving from Ideals to PracticeDouglas JohnsonFall 20194
HKS21st Century Global FeminismsZoe MarksSpring 20204
HKS + Harvard Chan SchoolHuman Rights Dilemmas in Child ProtectionJacqueline BhabhaFall 20192
HKS + Harvard Chan SchoolInternational Perspectives on Justice for ChildrenCecile AptelSpring 20202
HKSHuman Trafficking and Modern SlaverySiddharth KaraSpring 20202
HKSQueer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United StatesTimothy McCarthyFall 20192
HKS + Divinity SchoolReligion and World Politics: Connections and CollisionsJ. Bryan HehirSpring 20204
Harvard Medical SchoolHealth and Human RightsJon BoydFall 20192
MITHuman Rights at Home and AbroadTBAFall 201912
MITOpportunities in Developing EconomiesTBAFall 20196
MITGlobalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-BetweenTBAFall 201912
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