SANDRA BABCOCK is an attorney in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Over the last decade, she has been a leading advocate for the application of international human rights norms in domestic criminal proceedings, particularly in death penalty cases.  She has argued before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice.  Currently, she directs the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, a pioneering project funded by the Government of Mexico to assist its nationals in capital cases at trial and on appeal.  Through this Program, she has provided litigation support to attorneys in over 80 capital cases involving Mexican nationals, and routinely appears as Mexico’s counsel in state and federal courts around the country.  She is also Mexico’s counsel in the case of Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States), a case brought by Mexico in the International Court of Justice on behalf of 54 Mexican nationals on death row under the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.  Ms. Babcock has written several articles on the subject of international law and the death penalty.  She received her B.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991.