Dr. Courtney Hillebrecht, Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations at UNL, is also an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and the faculty coordinator of the William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community at UNL. Dr. Hillebrecht researches and teaches in the areas of human rights, international law and international relations. She is the author of Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge University Press) and many other articles, book chapters and related publications.