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SUMMARY: An European Perspective: Avenues for Developing Human Rights Respo
 nsibility Law
DESCRIPTION: he Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host Nora Ma
 rkard for a lunch talk on Friday\, February 20\, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in
  WCC 3007. Nora Markard is a Professor of Public Law and Human Rights at th
 e University of Münster\, Germany\, and a 2025–26 Senior Emile Noel Fellow 
 at the Jean Monnet Center\, […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <div>he Harvard European Law Association is p
 leased to host Nora Markard for a lunch talk on Friday\, February 20\, from
  12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in WCC 3007. Nora Markard is a Professor of Public Law 
 and Human Rights at the University of Münster\, Germany\, and a 2025–26 Sen
 ior Emile Noel Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center\, NYU School of Law. She wo
 rks on constitutional and international law issues\, with a focus on inequa
 lities\, forced migration\, and the right to health. She studied law in Ber
 lin and Paris and holds a PhD in law from Humboldt University Berlin and an
  MA in International Peace & Security from King’s College London. She was a
  visiting fellow at the University of Michigan\, Columbia Law School\, and 
 NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice\, and was a W&L Global Tea
 ching Fellow. She is an editor of the German Law Journal\, Der Staat\, and 
 Kritische Justiz. She also serves on the advisory board of the German Natio
 nal Institute of Human Rights and is a co-founder of the strategic litigati
 on NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) and two legal clinics.</div><
 div></div><div>As international human rights law matures\, EU member states
  have been developing ever novel ways to escape human rights review. Recent
  developments in the area of armed conflict\, surveillance\, migration\, an
 d climate change have lent growing urgency to the question how such respons
 ibility gaps could be addressed. This talk therefore explores the potential
  of general international law to make international human rights law more e
 ffective. The European Court of Human Rights has been setting the benchmark
  for European human rights responsibility law. Yet\, mindful of the binding
  character of its judgments and its dependence on state support\, it has be
 en reluctant to embrace the potential of general international law. The pre
 sentation therefore shows how recent Inter-American\, African\, UN treaty b
 ody\, and ICJ practice may serve as a model for developing human rights res
 ponsibility through general international law\, mitigating both the increas
 ing fragmentation of international law and disciplinary silos. In view of t
 he rising pressure on the European Court\, it also highlights the limiting 
 principles of such developments.</div><div></div><div>Lunch will be provide
 d.</div><div><div><b>Friday\, February 20\, 2026\, </b>12:30 to 1:15 p.m.</
 div><div>Harvard Law School\, WCC 3007</div></div>
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ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel Gosch":MAILTO:dgosch@llm26.law.harvard.edu
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