Sandra Babcock specializes in international human rights litigation, access to justice, death penalty defense, and international gender rights, applying her expertise in international law courts. She serves as the faculty director of the Cornell Center for Death Penalty Worldwide and has extensive experience in clinical teaching. Babcock has dedicated years to advocating for prisoners in Malawi, successfully leading the release of over 250 individuals, of whom 140 were previously sentenced to death. She is known as the principal architect of the Malawi Resentencing Project, which won the World Justice Challenge in April 2019 in The Hague. As counsel for the Mexican government, she has represented Mexican nationals facing the death penalty in the United States and has acted as Mexico’s counsel in cases before the International Court of Justice regarding Avena Mexican Nationals. Throughout her career, she has argued cases in numerous international and national courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Courts of California, Texas, Minnesota, and New Mexico. In addition to clinical teaching, she instructs doctrinal courses on International Human Rights, International Women and Children’s Rights, and International Law on the Death Penalty. Babcock was a Fulbright-Toqueville Distinguished Chair at Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, in the fall semester of 2014, where she taught a seminar on international gender rights in the international human rights clinic. She is multilingual, fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, and conversational in German.