Prof. Dr. Nora Markard
Professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights at the University of Münster

Nora Markard is a professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights at the University of Münster. She is a co-founder of the Humboldt Law Clinic Human and Fundamental Rights and of the Refugee Law Clinic Hamburg. She is Vice President of the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. (GFF), a strategic litigation NGO, and advises the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on its migration and gender litigation. Nora Markard studied Law and International Relations in Berlin, Paris and London. She holds a PhD from Humboldt University and an MA from King’s College London and was a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan and at Columbia Law School. She publishes widely on international and constitutional law issues, with a focus on inequalities and forced migration.

Contributions:

12 October 2020

Paper doesn’t blush: The Commission presents a plan that does nothing to address the realities at the EU borders

25 May 2020

Closed Ports, Dubious Partners

18 February 2020

Places of Safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s Policy of Outsourcing Responsibility