Alexander Wentker

MJur (Oxon), Maître en droit (Paris II). Research Fellow

wentker@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

General Public International Law; Use of Force in International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law; International Dispute Settlement; German Constitutional Law; EU Law; Transitional Justice

Academic Career:

• since 2018 | Research Fellow – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Research Group "Shades of Illegality in International Peace and Security Law"; doctoral thesis: Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law (University of Oxford)

• 2017 – 2018 | Judicial Clerk – Supreme Court of Namibia, Windhoek

• 2017 | Intern – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York

• 2016-2017 | Master (Magister Juris (MJur)) – University of Oxford

• 2016 | First Legal State Examination

• 2015 – 2016 | Master (Maîtrise en droit) – Université Paris II – Panthéon-Assas, specialisation in international law

• 2012 – 2016 | law studies – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, joint-degree programme Humboldt European Law School

• 2012 – 2013 | Research Assistant – Universität Potsdam, chair in European and German constitutional Law, administrative law, social law, and public business law
• 2011 – 2012 | law studies – Universität Potsdam, binational Franco-German law program

 

Recent Publications

• Purpose-based Regulation of Consent to Non-Forcible Operations. In: ZaöRV 79, 671-671 (2019).
• Nichtteilnahme als Grenzphänomen zwischenstaatlicher Gerichts- und Schiedsverfahren – die Fälle South China Sea und Arctic Sunrise. In: Grenzen des Rechts, Marie-Claire Foblets, Dirk Hanschel, Armin Höland (eds.). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle-Wittenberg 2018, 39-90.
• Mohammed v Ministry of Defence. Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC 2803), 2018. http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law-...
• Debate Map: Disputes in the South and East China Seas. Oxford Public International Law Debate Maps, 2017 (with John Louth). http://opil.ouplaw.com/page/222/debate-m...

Blogposts

• Jurisdictional Immunities in the New York Southern District Court? The case of Rukoro et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany. EJIL Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 2018 (with Richard Dören). https://www.ejiltalk.org/jurisdictional-...
• Venezuela’s Non-Participation Before the ICJ in the Dispute Over the Essequibo Region. EJIL Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 2018. https://www.ejiltalk.org/venezuelas-non-...

Working Papers

• Nichtteilnahme als Grenzphänomen zwischenstaatlicher Gerichts- und Schiedsverfahren – die Fälle South China Sea und Arctic Sunrise (Non-Participation in Inter-State Proceedings Before International Tribunals – the South China Sea and Arctic Sunrise Cases). MPIL Research Paper Series 20, 2018. SSRN

Media

• Die amerikanische Ausnahme [The American Exception]. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 08.02.2021, p. 15. (with Richard Dören) FAZ

Further Publications

• Die Eishockey-WM in Minsk: gesellschaftliche und politische Perspektiven. In: Belarus-Analysen 17 , 7- (2014) (with Pavel Baravik, Clemens Günther, Anna Koubová, Maria Tandeck).

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