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:
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
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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...
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Beck'sches Examinatorium Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht.
4th edn. C.H. Beck,
Munich, 2022, 480 p. (with
Achim Seidel,
Rudi Lang)
Working Papers
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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
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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-...
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Achmea. In: Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, December 2019.
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Dynamik des Völkervertragsrechts und Treaty Override - Perspektiven des offenen Verfassungsstaats.
In: Steuern und Wirtschaft 96, 340-354 (2019) (with
Matthias Valta).
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Entscheidung über die Abweisung von Auslegungs- und Berichtigungsanträgen – zwingend durch Schiedsspruch oder auch durch Beschluss?
In: SchiedsVZ 15, 247-251 (2017) (with
Stephan Wilske).
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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).
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Tagungsbericht: Europäisches Finanzrecht - Stand - Methoden - Perspektiven.
In: Juristen Zeitung 72, 296 ff.- (2017) (with
Christian Jung).
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§ 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...
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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).
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Referendarexamensklausur - Öffentliches Recht: Staatsorganisationsrecht und Völkerrecht - Undemokratische Schiedsgerichte?
In: JuS 57, 822-828 (2016).
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Tagungsbericht: 10. Jahrestreffen des Gesprächskreises Investitionsrecht und -schiedsgerichtsbarkeit 2014.
In: SchiedsVZ 13, 242-247 (2015).
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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
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
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