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Prof. Nora Markard is a Professor of Public Law and Human Rights at the University of Münster Law Faculty (Germany). She holds an M.A. in International Peace & Security from King’s College London and a Ph.D. in Law from Humboldt University in Berlin. At Washington and Lee University (W&L), she serves as a Global Teaching Fellow, contributing to the comparative law seminar focused on German legal culture.
- Educational background: Law studies at Free University of Berlin and Sorbonne in Paris
- Ph.D. in Law (Humboldt University) and M.A. in International Peace & Security (King’s College London)
Her research centers on comparative constitutional law, international human rights, migration/refugee law, and legal gender studies, with a focus on diversity and discrimination. She has pioneered critical analyses of German legal academia’s diversity shortcomings.
Her recent publications include foundational works on non-discrimination law, structural racism, and diversity reform in legal institutions. These align with her advocacy roles, such as co-founding the Humboldt Law Clinic for Fundamental and Human Rights and the Refugee Law Clinic at the University of Hamburg.
Prof. Markard actively engages in civil rights litigation, including equal pay cases before Germany’s Constitutional Court and interventions at the European Court of Human Rights on migrant push-backs. She is a member of the German Law Journal’s editorial board, fostering transnational legal scholarship.
Labs/teams: Co-founder of the Humboldt Law Clinic for Fundamental and Human Rights and the Refugee Law Clinic at the University of Hamburg, advancing practical applications of human rights law.
