This seminar explores the relationship between international human rights law and U.S. domestic law, in an attempt to determine the extent to which treaties and customary international law norms can and should operate meaningfully in the domestic context. The seminar examines both the United States? compliance with international human rights norms (in contexts such as the Guantanamo detentions, the rights of immigrant workers, and the execution of juveniles and consular notification in U.S. death penalty practices), as well as the use of U.S. domestic laws to advance the international human rights regime (through mechanisms such as the Torture Victim Protection Act and litigation under the Alien Tort Claims Act). Prerequisite: A prior course in transnational law, public international law, or international human rights.