Stephen P. Marks
Department of Global Health and Population
Research
The emphasis of Stephen Marks’s work is on the interface of health and human rights, drawing on the disciplines of international law, international politics, international organizations, and international economics.
Professor Marks’s recent research has focused on integrating human rights into sustainable human development; biotechnology and human rights; impunity for mass atrocities; terrorism and human rights; cultural rights; tobacco control; access to medicines, and human rights education. He has published recent books, articles or book chapters in each of these areas. He directs Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights at Harvard University Press.
He recently co-edited a book on Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions and a reader on Perspectives on Health and Human Rights, (second edition, 2010). His book Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents, is now in its second edition. He is preparing for publication in 2011 The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective (in the Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights) and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Economic Perspectives (to be published by UNESCO and University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011).Professor Marks is currently collaborating with Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal on a book on human rights and development for Edward Elgard Publishing. He is editing a volume on the right to development for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be published in 2011.
In his capacity as Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, he developed a strategy for human rights learning in Harvard College in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is teaching two courses in the college as part of the expanded human rights curriculum.
Education
Doctor of Laws (Docteur d’État en droit), with high honors, Institute of the Law of Peace and Development, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Nice, 1979
Master of Arts (hon.), Harvard University, 1999
Advanced degree (Diplôme d’études appliquées avancées, DEAA) in administrative litigation and human rights, Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Science of the University of Besançon, 1977
Certificate of European Studies, Institute of Advanced European Studies of the University of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Strasbourg, 1972
University degree in literary studies (Dipôme universitaire d’études littéraires, DUEL), University of Humanities of Strasbourg (in Arabic language, literature and civilization), 1972
Diploma in Arabic with high honors, Faculty of Letters of Damascus University, 1971
Masters degree (Diplôme IHEI), Institute of Advanced International Studies of the University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Paris, 1971
Bachelor of Arts, Law, Stanford University, 1964
Program on Human Rights in Development
The Program on Human Rights in Development was established as part of the FXB Center on Health and Human Rights in 1999. Since September 2006, it moved to the Department of Population and International Health. In addition to follow up to the Dutch-funded project on the Right to Development, the work plan of the Program on Human Rights in Development includes the Nobel book, the UNICEF project, the UNESCO project, the implementation of economic social and cultural rights project, the China-India project, the High-level Task force and miscellaneous publications.
Other Affiliations
Member, Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2010-2011
Member, Advisory Committee, Measurement and Human Rights Program, Carr Center on Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009-
Member, Committee on Educational Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, 2009.
Senior Fellow, University Committee on Human Rights Studies Harvard University, 1999-2010
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008-
Member, Advisory Committee, Measurement and Human Rights Program, Carr Center on Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty member, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2009-
Chair, High Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2005-2010
Faculty Associate, Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002-
PHRD Faculty and Staff
Director – Professor Stephen Marks