BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260224T0417Z-1771906672.7569-EO-741607-1@10.73.7.213 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260415T225720Z CREATED:20260223T171028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T171028Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T131500 SUMMARY: Definitions of Death in European Organ Exchange: Legal Conflict an d Constitutional Limits DESCRIPTION: The Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host Paul B idmon for a lunch talk on Monday\, March 2\, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in Hau ser Hall 102. Paul Bidmon is a legal research associate and PhD candidate a t the Chair for Public Law\, Health Law and Legal Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Ste fan Huster) at the Ruhr-University […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host Paul Bidmon for a lunch talk on Monday\, March 2\, from 12: 30 to 1:15 p.m. in Hauser Hall 102. Paul Bidmon is a legal research associa te and PhD candidate at the Chair for Public Law\, Health Law and Legal Phi losophy (Prof. Dr. Stefan Huster) at the Ruhr-University Bochum\, Germany a nd has been a Visiting Researcher at The Kennedy Institute of Ethics\, Geor getown\, in 2024.
Although the European legal space is marked by dense constitutional interaction and a broadly shared commitment to human dignity and fundamental rights\, the legal frameworks for determi ning the end of life remain diverse. These thresholds\, which are decisive for the capacity to bear fundamental rights\, cannot be determined by medic al evidence alone\; they rest on normative and metaphysical premises about legal personhood that can legitimately differ across and within nations. Us ing the example of intra-European organ exchange\, this talk outlines how s uch divergences generate conflicts between national\, especially constituti onal\, laws even within a region of dense constitutional dialogue and mutua l influence. This represents a conflict-of-laws scenario that is increasing ly exceptional within today’s European legal space. The talk examines the a uthority a legal order may claim when confronted with the domestic effects of another jurisdiction’s death determination and analyzes how acknowledgin g the normative dimension of such determinations could foster principled to lerance and stronger cross-border cooperation.
Lunch w ill be provided.
Monday\, March 2\, 2026\, 12:3 0 to 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Law School\, Hauser Hall 102
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