Students will study the principal global and regional institutions responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the Human Rights Committee, the Human Rights Council, and the European Court of Human Rights. The course examines how human rights operate both within states and beyond national borders, as well as how they should be applied in situations of armed conflict. It also explores the prohibition of genocide, the ban on discrimination, and the ways in which societies address past human rights violations following the collapse of authoritarian regimes.