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Alexander Wentker

MJur (Oxon), Maître en droit (Paris II), Research Fellow 2018 -2022, Senior Research Fellow 2022

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 until 2022

2022 Senior Research Fellow at the MPIL 

2018 - 2022: Research Fellow at the MPIL 

  • 2022 | Legal Trainee (Rechtsreferendar) at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht)
  • 2018 | Research Fellow – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Research Group "Shades of Illegality in International Peace and Security Law"
  • 2019 - 2022 | doctoral studies in law - University of Oxford; thesis: Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law
  • 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