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Robert Stendel

Dr. iur., MJur (Oxford), Senior Research Fellow

stendel@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-310

Main Fields of Research:

Law of State Responsibility; International Investment Law; Comparative Public Law; German Constitutional Law

Academic Career:

03/2023: Dr. iur. at the University of Heidelberg

since 01/2023: Managing Editor of the ZaöRV/HJIL

10/2020 - 06/2021: Magister Juris (MJur) at the University of Oxford

since 05/2018: Research Fellow at the MPIL and dissertation project (University of Heidelberg): Moral Damages and the Transformation of Private Law Analogies in Public International Law

04/2018: Second State Exam in Law (Baden-Württemberg)

04/2016 - 04/2018: Legal Clerkship (Referendariat) (inter alia at the Higher Administrative Court for Baden-Württemberg (Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg), the law firm Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart, and the law firm Noerr, London)

10/2015 - 07/2017: (with interruptions): Research Associate at the Institute for Public Finance and Tax Law (University of Heidelberg) to Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reimer

08/2015 - 03/2016: Research Assistant at the law firm ESCHER Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt a.M.

07/2015: First State Exam in Law (Baden-Württemberg)

11/2013 - 07/2015: Student Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

10/2013 - 07/2015: Law Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

05/2011 - 09/2013: Student Research Assistant at the Chair for Gernam and European Constituional and Administrative Law, Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner

10/2010 - 09/2013: Law Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Recent Publications

  • Immaterieller Schadensersatz und der Wandel völkerrechtlicher Privatrechtsanalogien. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, 567 p. doi: 10.5771/9783748941590 (Open Access), Diss. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/97...
  • Anm. zu BVerwG Urt. v. 24.5.2023 – 9 CN 1.22. In: NVwZ 42, 1413-1414 (2023).
  • Standpunkt | Ein Sondertribunal zur Aggression gegen die Ukraine? Ja.. In: Die Vereinten Nationen 71/2, 74-74 (2023) (with Anne Peters). https://zeitschrift-vereinte-nationen.de...
  • Beck'sches Examinatorium Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht. 4th edn. C.H. Beck, Munich, 2022, 480 p. (with Achim Seidel, Rudi Lang)

Working Papers

  • Concurrent Investor-State Claims Before Domestic Courts and Investment Treaty Arbitration Tribunals: Philip Morris, Vattenfall and Beyond. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 17, 2023 (with Luke Nottage). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...
  • Dynamik des Völkervertragsrechts und treaty override – Perspektiven des offenen Verfassungsstaats (The Dynamics of Treaty Law and the Treaty Override – Perspectives on Open Constitutionalism). MPIL Research Paper Series, 2019 (with Matthias Valta). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...

Further Publications

  • Moral Damages as an "Exceptional" Remedy in International Investment Law - Re-Connecting Practice with General International Law. In: ZaöRV/HJIL 81(4), 937-968 (2021). doi: 0.17104/0044-2348-2021-4-937. https://doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2021-...
  • Achmea. In: Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, December 2019.
  • Dynamik des Völkervertragsrechts und Treaty Override - Perspektiven des offenen Verfassungsstaats. In: Steuern und Wirtschaft 96, 340-354 (2019) (with Matthias Valta).
  • Entscheidung über die Abweisung von Auslegungs- und Berichtigungsanträgen – zwingend durch Schiedsspruch oder auch durch Beschluss? In: SchiedsVZ 15, 247-251 (2017) (with Stephan Wilske).
  • BREXIT, Trump and Other Political Earthquakes: What are the Effects on Asian Businesses and Dispute Resolution?. In: Korean Arbitration Review 8, 8-16 (2017) (with Stephan Wilske, Lars Markert).
  • Tagungsbericht: Europäisches Finanzrecht - Stand - Methoden - Perspektiven. In: Juristen Zeitung 72, 296 ff.- (2017) (with Christian Jung).
  • § 32 Offener Verfassungsstaat. In: Geprägte Freiheit in Forschung und Lehre, P. Kirchhof, H. Kube, R. Mußgnug, E. Reimer (eds.). Heidelberg Working Paper Series on Public Finance and Tax Law 4. Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2016, 227-230. http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ind...
  • Fallgruppen der Anrechnung bzw. Nichtanrechnung nach Vorb. 3 VI VV RVG bei Zurückverweisung an ein untergeordnetes Gericht. In: NJOZ 39, 1433-1439 (2016) (with Alfred Escher).
  • Referendarexamensklausur - Öffentliches Recht: Staatsorganisationsrecht und Völkerrecht - Undemokratische Schiedsgerichte? In: JuS 57, 822-828 (2016).
  • Tagungsbericht: 10. Jahrestreffen des Gesprächskreises Investitionsrecht und -schiedsgerichtsbarkeit 2014. In: SchiedsVZ 13, 242-247 (2015).
  • Chronicle: Administrative Law/Droit administratif. Federal Republic of Germany/ République fédérale d´Allemagne. In: European Review of Public Law (ERPL)/Revue Européenne de Droit Public (REDP) 24, 1675-1704 (2012) (with Michael Brenner, Jonas Hyckel).

Presentations

04 Sep 2023

ICJ, Dispute concerning the delimitation of the boundaries between, on the one hand, the continental shelf of Nicaragua beyond the 200-nautical-mile limit from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of Nicaragua is measured, and on the other hand, the continental shelf of Colombia (Nicaragua v. Colombia), judgment of 13 July 2023

Monday Meeting

Max Planck Institut for Comparative Public Law and International Law

23 Jan 2023

ECtHR, Basu v. Germany, Judgment of 18 October 2022, App. No. 215/19 - Racial Profiling in Germany

Monday Meeting

Max Planck Institut for Comparative Public Law and International Law

21 Nov 2022

The turning of the tide? Intra-EU objections before investment tribunals

Monday Meeting

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

14 Nov 2022

Dispute Concerning the Detention of Ukrainian Naval Vessels and Servicemen (Ukraine v. the Russian Federation)

Monday Meeting

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

23 Mar 2022

Krieg in der Ukraine: Wie weiter? Völkerrechtliche Perspektiven

"Stipendiaten machen Programm", German Academic Scholarship Foundation (with Paulina Starski Florian Kriener)

Teaching

Winter Term 2023/24

Heidelpräp Examination Course (HK 655)

Heidelberg University

Winter Term 2023/24

International Dispute Settlement (with Alexander Wentker)

Free University Berlin

Spring Term 2023

Law of Municipalities (Kommunalrecht)

EBS University of Business and Law

Summer Term 2022

International Dispute Settlement (with Alexander Wentker)

Free University Berlin

Winter Term 2021/2022

Heidelpräp! Examination Course (HK 582)

University of Heidelberg, 13.01.2022

Summer Term 2021

International Dispute Settlement (with Alexander Wentker)

Free University Berlin

Winter Term 2020/21

International Dispute Settlement (with Alexander Wentker)

Free University Berlin

Winter Term 2019/2010

Tutorial Public International Law (with Leander Beinlich and Raphael Schäfer)

University of Heidelberg

Winter Term 2019/2020

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Summer Term 2019

International Dispute Settlement (with Alexander Wentker)

Free University Berlin

Summer Term 2019

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Winter Term 2018/2019

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Summer Term 2017

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Winter Term 2016/2017

Tutorial Civil Law I (General Part)

University of Heidelberg

Summer Term 2016

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Winter Term 2015/2016

Tutorial Constitutional Law I

University of Heidelberg

Winter Term 2015/2016

Tutorial Administrative Law

University of Heidelberg

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

The Rise of Domestic Courts in International Investment Law, University of Sydney-MPIL Workshop, Sydney, 26.10.2022 - 26.11.2022

8th PEPA/SIEL Conference: Presenation on "Moral Damages: From Private to Public Law?", King's College, London, 30.05.2019 - 31.05.2019

Honours

2021 Clifford Chance Prize Proxime Accessit (for the second best overall performance in the MJur at the University of Oxford)

2020  Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Bucerius Jura Programme), LL.M. scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Law Faculty/Brasenose College Scholarship for the Magister Juris (MJur) course at the University of Oxford

01/2019-12/2022 Doctoral Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2011 - 2015: Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2013: German National Champion in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Miscellaneous

Languages

German, English, French