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.