Leon
Seidl
Research Fellow
seidl@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-263
Main Fields of Research:
International Economic Law with a focus on Sustainable Development; Law of Peace Settlements and Peacebuilding
Academic Career:
Since October 2023: Research Fellow at the MPIL and Ph.D. candidate (Anne Peters)
September - November 2025: Visiting Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, School of Law (funded by the DAAD)
April - September 2023: Internship at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), Legal Policy Team
2020 - 2023: Student Research Assistant at the MPIL in the team of Anne Peters
2019 - 2020: Exchange year at the Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; Certificate of Transnational Law
2017 - 2023: Law studies, University of Heidelberg
- Focus on Public International Law
Recent Publications
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Les Nouveaux Rôles de l'OMC. In: Réforme de l’OMC: vers un nouveau multilatéralisme économique,
Geneviève Dufour,
Richard Ouellet (eds.). Les Presses de la SQDI, Sherbrooke 2024,
11-27 (with
Gabrielle Marceau,
Maéva Obiang Ndong).
Link
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Shifting Priorities in a Changing World: Germany at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference.
In: German Yearbook of International Law 65, 417-428 (2022).
Link
Blogposts
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The Board of Peace Ltd. - A Corporate Solution to Global Crises. Völkerrechtsblog, 20 April 2026 (with
Julia Emtseva).
here
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Trump’s 20 Points on Gaza – Liberal peacebuilding sans liberalism, or: Capitalism without a human face. EJIL:Talk!, 03 October 2025.
Link
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A Human Rights-Friendly Influence? The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Syrian Transition, and International Law. Armed Groups in International Law, 12 September 2025.
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A 486 Billion Dollar Investment: Economic Peacebuilding, Donor Coordination and the European Union’s Role in Ukraine’s Reconstruction. Verfassungsblog, 29 October 2024.
Presentations
09 Dec 2025
Unilateral sanctions in the face of disintegrating multilateralism: The CJEU’s jurisprudence on trade with occupied territories as a model for national and regional courts?
at the Workshop 'At the Crossroads: International and Comparative Public Law in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainty'
Heidelberg
05 Jul 2025
Still an Obstacle to Peacebuilding? The International Financial Institutions in the Normative Environment of Peace Processes
at the Bogazici University International Law Conference 2025, "Justice and Reconstruction in Post-conflict Societies"
Bogazici University, Istanbul
21 Oct 2024 - 23 Okt 2024
Power in Peace: How international law constrains and enables new power structures in peacemaking
at the Max Planck Law Annual Conference 2024
Berlin
25 Apr 2024
Rebuilding a Sustainable and Inclusive Economy: EU-Donor Coordination in Ukraine
at the workshop European Security and Defence in the 21st Century: International and European Law Perspectives. Organized by Sciences Po Paris in collaboration with HeiParisMax and the MPIL
Sciences-Po, Paris
Teaching
Winter 2025/26
Tutorial in Public Law
Summer 2025
Tutorial in Constitutional Law
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
Academy of European Law, Summer Course on Human Rights 2025, European University Institute, Florence, 16.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
Hague Academy of International Law, Winter Courses 2025, Peace Palace, The Hague, 06.01.2025 - 24.01.2025
Workshop: Legal Aspects of Reform to the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 10.04.2024
Cambridge International Law Journal Annual Conference: The Intersection of Peace and Sustainability in International Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 08.04.2024 - 09.04.2024
(Open) Strategic Autonomy - Foundations and Tools, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, 07.09.2023 - 08.09.2023
Rethinking WTO Dispute Settlement, University of Ottawa, Canada, 24.05.2023 - 26.05.2023
