Courtney Hillebrecht

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Courtney Hillebrecht

Department Chair, Professor, Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Political Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
526 OLDH
Lincoln NE 68588-0328
Phone
402-472-2343 On-campus 2-2343
Email
chillebrecht2@unl.edu

Dr. Courtney Hillebrecht is the Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hillebrecht also serves as the Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.

Dr. Hillebrecht is the author of Saving the International Justice Regimes: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (2021) and Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (2014), both published by Cambridge University Press.  Her research also has been published in a variety of academic outlets, including, among others, Democratization, The European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Harvard International Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, International Interactionsand The Journal of Peace Research. 

Professor Hillebrecht received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held doctoral research fellowships at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and the School of Human Rights Research at Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She graduated suma cum laude from Middlebury College with a BA in History and Spanish in 2004.

Education

  • Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Doctoral research fellowships at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and the School of Human Rights Research at Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Graduated suma cum laude from Middlebury College with a BA in History and Spanish in 2004

Selected Publications

  • Women's Rights Recommendations and Compliance Explorer (wrrce.org)
  • Courtney Hillebrecht and Hannah Read. 2023. “The ICC Beyond the Courtroom: Activities, Warnings and Impact.” Journal of Human Rights, 23 (1): 62-77.
  • Jillienne Haglund, Courtney Hillebrecht and Hannah Read. 2022. “International Human Rights Recommendations at Home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database.” International Interactions, 48 (5): 1070-1087.
  • Jillienne Haglund and Courtney Hillebrecht. 2020. “Overlapping International Human Rights Institutions:  Introducing the Women’s Rights Recommendations Digital Database.” Journal of Peace Research, 57 (5): 648-657.
  • Courtney Hillebrecht and Alexandra Huneeus. 2018. "How International Courts are Changing Peace." Harvard International Law Journal, 59 (2): 279-330. 
  • Courtney Hillebrecht and Scott Straus.  2017. "Who Prosecutes the Perpetrators? State Cooperation with ICC Indictments." Human Rights Quarterly, 39 (1): 162-188. 
  • Dona-Gene Barton, Courtney Hillebrecht and Sergion Wals. 2015.  "Perceived Human Rights and Support for New Democracies: Lessons from Mexico." Democratization, 22 (7): 1230-1249. 
  • Courtney Hillebrecht.  2014. "The Power of Human Rights Tribunals: Compliance and Domestic Policy Change." European Journal of International Relations, 20 (4): 1100-1123.
  • Courtney Hillebrecht, 2012. "The Domestic Mechanisms of Compliance with International Law: Case Studies from the Inter-American Human Rights System." Human Rights Quarterly, 34 (2): 959-985.